by Paul Nelson | Nov 8, 2013 | Uncategorized
The seeds for a bioregionalist perspective in me were planted by the late Peter Berg of the Planet Drum Foundation during an interview I conducted around 1993, but the interview I am posting today with Michael Shuman helped the process along considerably. You can see...
by Paul Nelson | Nov 8, 2013 | POPO
My posts on the August 2013 Seattle visit of Morrocan poet and Beat scholar El Habib Louai were quite long, (archived here) so I am creating this post in the hopes that viewers of this blog will take a listen to the interview we did at the top of Desolation Peak,...
by Paul Nelson | Nov 1, 2013 | POPO
I have posted all my 2013 POstcard POems in one spot. See: https://wp.me/P1Xnkd-1h7. For more on the fest, see: https://poetrypostcards.blogspot.com/ For the postcard fest Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/17361938720/ The 2014 call will go out shortly...
by Paul Nelson | Oct 31, 2013 | Uncategorized
(This essay was recently published in Zen Monster.) (download pdf for best formatting) A Little History: The Deeply Personal as Political (Some notes on a book by Ammiel Alcalay) There were two events in the mid 90s which really opened my eyes to the power of poetry....
by Paul Nelson | Oct 26, 2013 | Uncategorized
Brenda Hillman reads at Open Books tomorrow at 3p and I first met her at Open Books in 2010, I think it was. She has just completed her tetralogy of meditations on the elements, ending up with Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire. I had the good fortune to facilitate a...
