by Paul Nelson | Dec 3, 2011 | Uncategorized
I will be reading: HOARSE When Sunday, December 18, 2011 Time 7:00pm until 12:00am Where The Snug Room @ College Inn Pub, 4006 University Way NE, Seattle, WA Description The 5th release of HOARSE is here and will be celebrated the coziest, most professory room in the...
by Paul Nelson | Nov 23, 2011 | Uncategorized
Seattle’s Poetry Scene Seattle likes to pride itself on being one of America’s Most Literate Cities. I pay attention to these annual pronouncements for about 2 minutes when they inevitably make the news, or are posted on Facebook, and Seattle’s usually up there with...
by Paul Nelson | Nov 21, 2011 | Uncategorized
Brenda Hillman finished off the SPLAB 2011 Visiting Poets Series in fine fashion November 11 and 12 with a brilliant talk on Innovation and Activism in Poetry Friday the 11th (Veterans Day), a workshop that left at least one participant “buzzing all day”...
by Paul Nelson | Nov 18, 2011 | Uncategorized
Paul Nelson first started conducting interviews in his early radio days, Chicago 1980. In 1990 he was promoted to News & Community Affairs Director of KKNW (106.9 in Seattle) and over the next 14 years created nearly 500 hours of innovative and compelling public...
by Paul Nelson | Nov 17, 2011 | Uncategorized
I checked mail yesterday and Michael McClure’s package came. It was an original copy of Jargon 20: Passage, published in 1956 by Jonathan Williams. I immediately sat down and read the whole book except for For The Death of 100 Whales which I know well. The first poem...