by Paul Nelson | Jun 9, 2015 | Uncategorized
The poems after more than a year now, seem so out of place when viewed from this “heat wave” point of view. (84 now as I write, which is over 78, the temp at which Seattleites tend to gripe.) And references to a Charles Lloyd album, to an experience I...
by Paul Nelson | Jun 6, 2015 | Uncategorized
Joanne Kyger Interview in Bolinas, CA, Memorial Day, 2015 One of the major women poets of the SF Renaissance, Joanne Kyger was born in 1934 in Vallejo, CA, studied with Pound scholar Hugh Kenner at UC Santa Barbara and moved to San Francisco in 1957, where she became...
by Paul Nelson | Jun 2, 2015 | Uncategorized
The purpose of my recent (massive) road trip to the SW and back was to visit Amalio Madueño, who has lived there since the early 90s. I met him in the late 90s when I attended three consecutive editions of the Taos Poetry Circus, which Amalio ran for ten years. It was...
by Paul Nelson | May 30, 2015 | Uncategorized
Ever since Greg Bem arrived in Seattle from Philadelphia he has been a literary dynamo, presenting and participating in events that are rich in imagination, well-conceived and have added depth to the often uninspired events that pass for literary art happenings around...
by Paul Nelson | May 27, 2015 | Uncategorized
OK, I’m back. It was 4,167 miles in Que (my Honda) to Portland, Boise (via John Day River watershed in Oregon), to Moab, Grand Junction, CO, Denver, Taos, Quemado, NM, Phelan, CA, Lancaster, CA, Danville, CA, Bolinas, Portland and back to the Emerald City...
