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PAUL E NELSON

Winter in America (Again (poem)

Winter in America (Again (poem)

I have submitted my poems to the upcoming anthology Winter in America (Again. The project was conceived of by Katie Sarah Zale and modeled after Sam Hamill’s “Poets Against The War.” Greg Bem’s Carbonation Press of Spokane is set to publish the...
Rainier Beach Arts & Craft Market

Rainier Beach Arts & Craft Market

I attended this market when Bhakti and I first moved to Rainier Beach in 2007 and I have been delighted to participate in in the last four or five years, excepting the pandemic time. Of course I’ll have copies of Cascadian Zen Volumes I & II. I’ll have...
Poet of Place (Joanne Kyger)

Poet of Place (Joanne Kyger)

Today we present the video version of the interview I conducted with Jane Falk and Mary Paniccia Carden on the book Poet in Place and Time: Critical Essays on Joanne Kyger. Kyger is one of the most underrated poets of the post WWII period with a deep sense of place, a...
Andrew Schelling in Seattle and Port Townsend

Andrew Schelling in Seattle and Port Townsend

Fans of the Cascadia Poetics Lab are no doubt familiar with Andrew Schelling, the poet/translator and Naropa professor. We have interviewed him on several occasions: https://cascadiapoeticslab.org/2012/06/andrew-schelling/” Tracks Along the Left Coast: Jaime De...

Robert Bringhurst at Seattle U, Nov 15

Robert Bringhurst will be talking at Seattle University on Friday, November 15, 2024, in Sinegal 100/110 at 4pm. Robert has been part of at least two Cascadia Poetry Festivals, 2015 in Nanaimo and 2023 in Seattle and I interviewed him for the Cascadian Prophets...
The Nature of Zen: An Ecology of Being

The Nature of Zen: An Ecology of Being

From Ray Grigg: I thought I’d let you know that my latest book, The Nature of Zen: An Ecology of Being is now available from Xlibris for $20.99 and from Amazon for…  $28.95. An eBook edition is also available. I’m not in the business of flogging...