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PAUL E NELSON

This is a resource page for my daysong practice. This one day writing ritual was designed for workshop participants in the ongoing Life as Rehearsal for the Poem and Poetics as Cosmology workshops. After a summer of writing poetry postcards and the spatial restriction of that practice, I encouraged workshop participants to write with a temporal restriction (24 hours) as employed by Bernadette Mayer in Midwinter Day and Pierre Joris in Canto Diurno,

The first writing exercise handout: Inside the Day Song: The Temporal Epic

My first daysong chapbook (Daysong of Casa del Colibrî) and audio of me reading it in Lake City. (& John Olson’s thoughts about it.)

Anno-Uno-Die-aut-septem (2nd daysong writing exercise handout.)

My second daysong, Another Daysong (1980).

Daysong as Vision Quest workshop exercise.

Imbolc Daysong Ritual

Pre-Labor Day DaySong (Poet’s Subject is Time)

Daysong Miracle (Past 62)

Notes for an Imbolc Daysong

Audio of my February 1, 2025 Imbolc Dharma Position Daysong

Another Day Song (1980) FRONT and BACK cover
Daysong Miracle (Past 62) by Paul E Nelson front cover
Daysong of Casa del Colibrî