by Paul Nelson | Apr 25, 2012 | Uncategorized
Igniting the Galaxies: Cascadian Ecopoetry (A review of Igniting the Green Fuse: Four Canadian Women Poets) (download as a pdf) One of the great delights in organizing the recent Cascadia Poetry Festival in Seattle was the collaboration with Kim Goldberg and the...
by Paul Nelson | Apr 8, 2012 | Uncategorized
It was on my 50th birthday that I received an email from Garry Thomas Morse of Talon Books in Vancouver asking if I would be interested in writing the introduction to a reissue of Michael McClure’s 1985 book entitled Specks. I was honored and flabbergasted and...
by Paul Nelson | Apr 6, 2012 | Uncategorized
The opening poem from my current project: Pig War: & Other Songs of Cascadia. Text, with linebreaks fouled up by WordPress, is here: https://paulenelson.com/pig-war/before-pigs/
by Paul Nelson | Mar 31, 2012 | Uncategorized
53. Nothing Death A kiss is nothing in brackets. – Ramón Gomez de la Serna A poem’s nothing on paper. A stellar jay’s a punk in a western vista. Any death’s an opportunity. One wd sing his pop a harmonium-laden blues w/ gurus and aunties in the same field as genius...
by Paul Nelson | Mar 29, 2012 | Uncategorized
Nothing forgets us more quickly than a barstool. Ramon Gomez de la Serna the sheer terror of being forced into incarnation in accordance with one’s will one’s agreement with the single intelligence. We watch at night after so much crying crying crying, cats as bed...
