by Paul Nelson | Apr 17, 2026 | Uncategorized
I was a sophomore at Wright Junior College in Chicago in 1981, quite determined to be a professional broadcaster, listening to the progressive FM station that shaped my whole cosmology when a song so compelling came on, that when I had arrived at my parking spot, I...
by Paul Nelson | Apr 15, 2026 | Uncategorized
It’s kind of a joke in the bioregional community that bioregionalists are people who fly all over the world to tell you how important it is to be rooted to place. A lot of truth in that joke. Here at the Cascadia Poetics Lab we try to live by Gary Snyder’s...
by Paul Nelson | Apr 7, 2026 | Uncategorized
Your humble narrator was awarded a Residential Fellowship for July 2026 at the Clyfford Still Museum. Here was my pitch video: As noted in the video (did you watch it?) I first became aware of the legendary Abstract Expressionist painter Clyfford Still via...
by Paul Nelson | Mar 13, 2026 | Uncategorized
Our latest Cascadian Prophets podcast interview is now up. Lorin Medley is a poet from Comox, B.C. Her first chapbook is On The Way to Kluusms, published by Watershed Press. Lorin Medley’s poetry is deeply connected to place, rich with imagery, local history,...
by Paul Nelson | Mar 11, 2026 | Uncategorized
I’m delighted to have work in a new bilingual anthology! From the Carbonation Press website: We are Axolotls: Somos Ajolotes is an edited collection of major US Latin@ poets, who have lived in the US, or worked in the US as part of the Chican@/Latin@...
