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PAUL E NELSON

Winter in America (Again

Winter in America (Again

Katie Sarah Zale writes: “In 2003, 11,000 poets responded to Sam Hamill’s request for a poem about George W. Bush’s planned attack of Iraq. In the resulting anthology titled Poets Against the War, Sam wrote, ‘These are the voices of our poets; they come...
Winter in America (Again (poem)

Winter in America (Again (poem)

I have submitted my poems to the upcoming anthology Winter in America (Again. The project was conceived of by Katie Sarah Zale and modeled after Sam Hamill’s “Poets Against The War.” Greg Bem’s Carbonation Press of Spokane is set to publish the...
Rainier Beach Arts & Craft Market

Rainier Beach Arts & Craft Market

I attended this market when Bhakti and I first moved to Rainier Beach in 2007 and I have been delighted to participate in in the last four or five years, excepting the pandemic time. Of course I’ll have copies of Cascadian Zen Volumes I & II. I’ll have...
Poet of Place (Joanne Kyger)

Poet of Place (Joanne Kyger)

Today we present the video version of the interview I conducted with Jane Falk and Mary Paniccia Carden on the book Poet in Place and Time: Critical Essays on Joanne Kyger. Kyger is one of the most underrated poets of the post WWII period with a deep sense of place, a...
Andrew Schelling in Seattle and Port Townsend

Andrew Schelling in Seattle and Port Townsend

Fans of the Cascadia Poetics Lab are no doubt familiar with Andrew Schelling, the poet/translator and Naropa professor. We have interviewed him on several occasions: https://cascadiapoeticslab.org/2012/06/andrew-schelling/” Tracks Along the Left Coast: Jaime De...