by Paul Nelson | Oct 25, 2025 | Uncategorized
Call for Poems/Prose/ArtI hope this finds you well despite this troubling political time. In response, the editors of the Winter in America anthology series are building a literary and artistic community of vibrant resistance. Please consider submitting to the second...
by Paul Nelson | Oct 19, 2025 | Uncategorized
As the planet heats up, many animal species are either headed north or going extinct. This makes the work of the poet as witness that much more important. Who is here now? And as the culture becomes more and more reductionistic, a product of a human-centric delusion,...
by Paul Nelson | Sep 28, 2025 | Uncategorized
I’m honored when I can be of use, or my writing or interviewing or organizing inspires someone. The latest example of that comes from my friend Andrew Engelson, who created the Cascadia Journal and was inspired by my latest daysong, The Singing Bullets of Soft...
by Paul Nelson | Sep 19, 2025 | Uncategorized
Never in my 19 years of being involved with the Poetry Postcard Fest would I have have thought someone would take the time to lash out at a postcard recipient with a hateful message, but here we are in 2025 and the culture is being bombarded by intensities from every...
by Paul Nelson | Sep 8, 2025 | Uncategorized
For three years now since Sept 2022, I have written a day-long poem in a ritual that I’ve come to call the DaySong. There is much information about my history with this project here: https://paulenelson.com/daysong/ I tend to write two a year, one around Labor...
