by Paul Nelson | Apr 28, 2012 | Uncategorized
OK, more harvesting done today and some news. Pablo Baler in his fascinating project The Next Thing: art in the 21st Century has a great end note to the word Greguería. It reads: 1. Greguería is defined by its most notorious practitioner Ramón Gómez de la Serna as...
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...
