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PAUL E NELSON

Poetry at Cascadia BioFi

Poetry at Cascadia BioFi

Cascadia BioFi is happening Saturday May 17, and the Cascadia Poetics Lab will be presenting poetry with no admission charge at 7pm. The conference: “will bring together leaders at the edges of finance, circular economy, land regeneration, indigenous...
Four Winter in America (Again readings

Four Winter in America (Again readings

There are some benefits to having 8 editors of an anthology. It is 8 times the networking capacity. This is the case this week for the ongoing creative resistance to the current USAmerican administration, the poster boys for kakistocracy. & readings for Winter in...
Matt Trease The Outside

Matt Trease The Outside

I’ve known Matt Trease since he moved to Seattle in 2013. He’s from Tennessee and has spent time in Ohio, Milwaukee and Chicago, and left his academic track just short of  his dissertation. We met via the Poetry Postcard Fest and he brought a collage...
AWP Readings

AWP Readings

I am delighted to participate in two readings at AWP which in L.A. this year. One is at the Asterism booth, #750, Thursday, March 27 at 11am. Asterism has picked up much of the slack of SPD’s demise. Asterism distributes books by Watershed Press and the Cascadia...
Imbolc 2025 Dharma Position Daysong

Imbolc 2025 Dharma Position Daysong

I feel very fortunate to have successfully navigated another daysong, a day-long poem writing ritual. I set aside Imbolc 2025 to write, as that pagan holiday (& celebration of return of the light) fell on a Saturday this year. For this poem, I leaned heavily on...