by Paul Nelson | Apr 9, 2019 | Uncategorized
Sam Hamill left this earthly plane on April 14, 2018, and plans are underway to recognize that anniversary in a private and low-key ceremony, along with sushi and saké after, just as Sam would have liked it. Our Cascadia Poetry Festival dedicated to his memory is set...
by Paul Nelson | Apr 3, 2019 | Uncategorized
Upcoming poetry events are for people who are interested in the intersection of poetry and Zen and poetry and bioregionalism. April 11, at 7:30pm, the Seattle University Eco-Sangha presents Norman Schaefer, who will read in WYCKOFF AUDITORIUM on the campus of Seattle...
by Paul Nelson | Mar 28, 2019 | Uncategorized
I had the good fortune of being interviewed in Spokane on my way to gigs in Billings, Montana. Chris Maccini of Spokane Public Radio did his homework and asked me about American Prophets, my poetry activism and my own work. I read a haibun, 86. Paulownia Tomentosa and...
by Paul Nelson | Mar 18, 2019 | Uncategorized
The joy of hanging out with poets and NOT having to attend AWP!!! Thank you Knox Gardner for lining up this with your humble narrator and other SPLAB poets: Saturday, March 30, 2019 at 7:30 PM – 12M From Entre Rios Books: Twenty six of the Northwest’s many of...
by Paul Nelson | Mar 12, 2019 | Uncategorized
I’m delighted to have work in a new anthology entitled The End of the World Project. It was compiled by Richard Lopez, John Bloomberg-Rissman and T.C. Marshall and is so huge that it takes two books to contain it all: The list of poets...