by Paul Nelson | Apr 24, 2026 | Uncategorized
I’m honored to be giving a talk/reading on the subject of: Theodore Roethke and the Birth of Cascadian Poetry on May 12, 2026. I have been invited by The Friends of Roethke organization. https://www.friendsofroethke.org/events/2026nelson The Friends of Theodore...
by Paul Nelson | Apr 20, 2026 | Uncategorized
04.20.26 for immediate release The Clyfford Still Museum Institute Residential Fellowship Program has announced its 2026 selections and named Paul E. Nelson as one of the Residential Fellows for the third cohort of the Program in Denver, CO. The residency takes place...
by Paul Nelson | Apr 17, 2026 | Uncategorized
I was a sophomore at Wright Junior College in Chicago in 1981, quite determined to be a professional broadcaster, listening to the progressive FM station that shaped my whole cosmology when a song so compelling came on, that when I had arrived at my parking spot, I...
by Paul Nelson | Apr 15, 2026 | Uncategorized
It’s kind of a joke in the bioregional community that bioregionalists are people who fly all over the world to tell you how important it is to be rooted to place. A lot of truth in that joke. Here at the Cascadia Poetics Lab we try to live by Gary Snyder’s...
by Paul Nelson | Apr 7, 2026 | Uncategorized
Your humble narrator was awarded a Residential Fellowship for July 2026 at the Clyfford Still Museum. Here was my pitch video: As noted in the video (did you watch it?) I first became aware of the legendary Abstract Expressionist painter Clyfford Still via...
