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PAUL E NELSON

Heavy Lifting Art Book

Heavy Lifting Art Book

I am delighted to present an interview about the art book Heavy Lifting, a collaboration by Felicia Rice of Moving Parts Press and the poet Theresa Whitehill. Recorded Friday, March 25, 2023, via Zoom about how the project came together, what it means to create...
AWP Off-Site Events

AWP Off-Site Events

The AWP Conference is in Seattle again (March 8-11) and 10,000 writers are expected to be in Seattle for the proceedings. (Come say hello to the Cascadia Poetics Lab at the bookfair table T1427.) We are involved in at 5 off-site readings that merit your consideration:...
I Sing the Salmon Home

I Sing the Salmon Home

I’m delighted to have work in the new anthology curated by the outgoing Washington Poet Laureate Rena Priest. A postcard poem from 2022 was selected and I got this note from the publisher, Empty Bowl Press:…We will have some early copies of the book for...
AWP Off-Site Events

AWP Off-Site Readings

AWP is again having their annual convention in Seattle in 2023 and an expected 10,000 writers are headed here. (Don’t say we didn’t warn you!) The Cascadia Poetics Lab will have a booth at the book fair and I am reading at three off-site events and will...
Acrostic for Halstein Stralberg

Acrostic for Halstein Stralberg

One of my greatest mentors in the Subud community, Halstein Stralberg, died on November 6, 2022 and was memorialized in Seattle at the Subud House/Spring Street Center on Sunday, January 22, 2023. I talked on the occasion about how he was one of my two...