by Paul Nelson | Feb 14, 2014 | Uncategorized
The subject of Feminism has been coming up in recent weeks. My interview with Daphne Marlatt touched on it, as she has organized Feminist conferences thirty years ago and identifies as a Feminist. She is one of the headliners for the upcoming Cascadia Poetry Festival....
by Paul Nelson | Feb 10, 2014 | Uncategorized
The first harvest of the new year, my fourteenth with a daily practice of writing one 17 syllable poem. More on American Sentences elsewhere on this site, but for now, a few from 2014: 1.3.14 – A sort of Sudhana seeks the genius loci of Cascadia. 1.5.14 –...
by Paul Nelson | Feb 8, 2014 | Uncategorized
An interesting confluence of events in my life the last couple of weeks which involve a bit of poetics, a bit from one of my recent interviews, Facebook discussions and Feminism. And involves Charles Olson. A recent Facebook thread was started by Sam Hamill, was liked...
by Paul Nelson | Feb 4, 2014 | Uncategorized
It was after I finished my M.A. from Lesley University, a course of study I organized with the help of a few select advisors that one of my most close readers, Chuck Pirtle, suggested what I was heading towards in my writing was in helping define a West Coast poetics....
by Paul Nelson | Jan 29, 2014 | Uncategorized
I did my first interviews very early in my radio career, but started to gain some skill at preparing and conducting interviews about 1990, when I became News and Community Affairs Director at KKNW-FM in Seattle. One thing this activity has given me, more than anything...
