Paul E Nelson presenting at Cascadia Poetry Festival 8, photo by Leszek Chudzinski
Paul Nelson’s ongoing honing of the Day Song poetry event has produced some of the most lively and consequential verse of our time. How else write about the calamities and demands and mental/emotional/political consequences of the materialist apocalypse upon us, than an ongoing poesis of awareness and participation the anti-form the Day Song provides? Truly a praxis of proprioception and of Olson’s demand to “keep it moving…
– Sharon Thesen, Cascadian Poet/Scholar from B.C.
Nate Mackey Interview, Part 2
In the first part of my latest (8.24.12) interview with poet, editor, essayist and novelist Nate Mackey, he discussed the serial poem, the open nature of it and how the poem itself guides the...
425. to Marjorie Rommel, Kent, WA – Western Front
424. to Jim Teeters, Kent, WA – Passerine Melody
423. to Joanne Clarkson, Olympia, WA – Other Side
Organic in Cascadia: A Sequence of Energies
Organic in Cascadia: A Sequence of Energies A presentation for UW Bothell Convergence on Poetics, September 30, 2012 (See also:...
422. to Lisa Janice Cohen, Newton, MA – Limbo w the Giant Uterus
The quote's from The Book of Runes. The uterus reference came from one of those Facebook graphics which I posted to my page the day I wrote this poem. Google lapsarian.
421. to Jenifer Browne Lawrence, Poulsbo, WA – The Turning Floor
420. to Lynne Shapiro, Hoboken, NJ – No Solo Ex Nihilo
CONVERGENCE ON POETICS
I am delighted to be a part of this Conference at UW-Bothell this weekend. I present Sunday at 12N on "Organic in Cascadia: A Sequence of Energies." WITH Charles Altieri Marie Annharte Charles...
419. to Morgan Harlow, Barneveld, WI – Vole in the Past Hole
CPF, BIPF, NYC, APPF13
I have been running since about May 7 and no rest in sight as I write this from Brooklyn, in the city that does not sleep because jackhammers start at 7am and people are never afraid to use their...
August POetry POstcard Fest 2019 (Official Call)
The August Poetry Postcard Fest was initiated in 2007 by poets Paul Nelson and Lana Ayers. 2019 marks the thirteenth year of the fest and this is the official call. It is the biggest annual...
Zhang Er Interview
A year after Sam Hamill’s death, in what might be his last book blurb, he writes: “Zhang Er brings us startling “burial ground poems from Chinese that are striking in their perspective and elegant...
How does one make literary art about this time in history that avoids rhetoric and facile political positioning in this era of the spectacle? How does one avoid being consumed by the simultaneous collapse of so many systems — some being eviscerated by people in positions designed to protect such systems? Deborah Poe has some idea based on her submission to the upcoming anthology Winter in America (Still.
Deborah is the author of several books of poetry including keep, Elements, and Our Parenthetical Ontology, as well as a novella in verse, Hélène. Her visual works–video poems and handmade book objects–have been exhibited throughout the US. She lives on stolen Coast Salish land, specifically the ancestral homeland of the Duwamish, Suquamish, Stillaguamish, and Muckleshoot People.
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