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PAUL E NELSON

Limits of the Heroic

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...

Getting to Know Cascadian Poets & Poetics

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....

Daphne Marlatt Interview (Liquidities)

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...

SPLAB @ 20 (A daughter’s view)

We celebrated 20 years of SPLAB last Saturday at the Spring Street Center in Seattle, which is also the Seattle Subud House, my spiritual home. I was pleasantly surprised by the good turnout and happy to unveil the schedule for the 2nd Cascadia Poetry Festival which I...

Allergic to Cascadia Cats

You may have seen that the lineup for the 2nd Cascadia Poetry Festival has been released. I am pretty excited about it and we need 14 more sponsors at the $500 level, or 7 more at the $1,000 level, or commitments for 290 more Gold Passes, a weekend pass for which we...