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PAUL E NELSON

Pierre Joris Interview (Canto Diurno #1, 2-MAY-2022)

Pierre Joris Interview (Canto Diurno #1, 2-MAY-2022)

It’s a pretty ambitious goal to write an epic poem in a day. Bernadette Mayer’s Midwinter Day, an epic about the daily routine written on Winter Solstice 1978, is like no other project that I know of, except for Canto Diurno #1. That 1986 poem by Pierre Joris is also...
Full Earth Day Agenda

Full Earth Day Agenda

Cascadia Poetics Lab Board Member Jason Wirth and I are leading a clean-up of Chinook Beach Park on Friday, April 22 from 1-3pm. We will have some garbage bags and a couple of pickers, but feel free to bring some work gloves and help us keep this amazing pocket park...
Haibun de la Serna Official Launch

Haibun de la Serna Official Launch

Thanks to Koon Woon of Goldfish Press and Leopoldo Seguel of Poetry Bridge, the official launch of my new book Haibun de la Serna happens Wednesday, April 13 at C&P Coffee Company and online via a stream that Leopoldo will manage. I hope to see you at the venue or...
Runes, Revision, Wyrd

Runes, Revision, Wyrd

It is such a satisfying feeling when I draw the rune Laguz during my daily morning divination. I draw a rune daily as it gives me feedback on the energies/archetypes I am swirling out on any given day and can give me some clues as to how I am handling the daily...