A few months ago I changed the header of this here website once again and added the phrase "Twenty Year Cascadia...
5th Cascadia Poetry Fest – Tacoma Oct 12-15
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Paul E Nelson Blog
Charles Potts Interview
John Oliver Simon, former director of California Poets in the Schools and recipient of an NEA grant for translation,...
Profile of an Anarcho-Leftist, Poet/Librarian, Gentrifier, Greg Bem
When you think of the kind of person gentrifying the Rainier Valley, a man who could be described as an...
2017 August POetry POstcard Fest is Coming
The call for the eleventh year of the August Poetry Postcard Fest goes out July 4, 2017, and registration opens then....
Poetry Wars Revived
Most of the LANGPO vs. Black Mountain poetry war was fought before I was invested in poetry, so I have done my best to...
Cultural Appropriation or Appreciation
oIs it Cultural Appropriation or Cultural Appreciation? Can you tell the difference? Is close reading dead? The issue...
Neukom Vivarium Variations
It is part public art sculpture, part environmental education project. Unlike any other art project one can imagine,...
Evan Flory-Barnes Interview
On Tuesday, April 25, 2017, I sat down with bassist, composer and Seattle native Evan Flory-Barnes in my apartment in...
Notes on the Poetics of Resistance
Resistance is in the air thanks to the election of SCROTUS, the So Called Ruler of the United States. I've written...
Greyhounds & Activism @ Angeline
Start with two rescued Greyhound dogs, add two vegans (a mother and daughter) and move them to a large apartment...
Responding to Ethelbert
I first met Ethelbert Miller in 1994, when I knew nothing about poetry and he was touring with the book "In Search of...
PageBoy Magazine Writers on Writers
When I was asked for writing about a writer by Thomas Walton of Pageboy Magazine, I immediately thought of my homage...