Zappa came into my life in the middle of 1997 and we estimated his birthday at April 1, 1997. He was a remarkable cat....
Zappa, Dead at 17
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Paul E Nelson Blog
Warning: CA Conrad Trigger Warnings
I read with some amusement poet CA Conrad's Facebook status complaining about a request that he offer "Trigger...
Notes On Gone South
I was given a charge by Michael McClure when I started my graduate work as an independent study student in 2004. He...
Seattle, Cascadia “Last Stronghold for Spiritual Medicine”
The man known by many as Beaver Chief came from a long line of Indian Doctors. In this interview I did with Beaver...
Into the Open: A Way Forward for Cascadia Poetry
I’m still thinking about the notion of how Seattle, with its strong commitment to reading and literacy, has never...
Seattle Nice and Cascadia Culture
With the AWP Conference just concluded in Seattle, I had many opportunities to see my home through the eyes of others,...
An Army of Lovers (Spahr, Buuck)
I was chatting with Vancouver poet George Stanley about what he considered innovative in contemporary poetry. Without...
Cascadia and Feminism
The subject of Feminism has been coming up in recent weeks. My interview with Daphne Marlatt touched on it, as she has...
Early 2014 American Sentences
The first harvest of the new year, my fourteenth with a daily practice of writing one 17 syllable poem. More on...
Limits of the Heroic
An interesting confluence of events in my life the last couple of weeks which involve a bit of poetics, a bit from one...
Getting to Know Cascadian Poets & Poetics
It was after I finished my M.A. from Lesley University, a course of study I organized with the help of a few select...
Daphne Marlatt Interview (Liquidities)
I did my first interviews very early in my radio career, but started to gain some skill at preparing and conducting...