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.
2012 August Poetry Postcard Fest Afterword
I put my last two postcards from this year’s August Poetry Postcard fest in the mail today and, with the baby resting, have a few minutes to share my thoughts about how the fest went as is my wont...
The Four Hoarse Men
This past weekend was my first visit to Smoke Farm in Arlington, WA for the annual Lo-Fi Arts Festival. The farm was purchased in 1993 by the Rubicon Foundation which operates it as an arts and...
The Return of the Four Hoarse Men
The Four Hoarse Men will perform at Smoke Farm this weekend: 12731 Smokes Road, Arlington, Washington 98223 $40 General Admission / $20 Bike Ticket The Lo-Fi Arts Festival, Farm Time 2012, brings...
peN w/ the Jim O’Halloran Band
Paul Nelson reads a poem w/ the Jim O'Halloran Quintet Live at Bradner Gardens 1730 Bradner Place South Seattle, Washington 98144 Sat. August 18 6:30-8:30 PM Jim O’Halloran, Flute With Ben...
Review of Loving: Truths About Sex No One Told You
Review of Loving: Truths About Sex No One Told You by Emmanuel Williams We live in a very secular and materialist culture. I’m not sure if it was Nietzsche’s proclaiming that God is dead, or the...
George Bowering on George Stanley, Baseball Fan
While I was in Vancouver for the Subud Zones Conference, I interviewed George Stanley about his Vancouver: A Poem and After Desire. But I was also able to get a few minutes of George Bowering's time...
More 2012 American Sentences
So here is my state: I wanted to harvest my latest American Sentences (April 29 - July 5, 2012) about two weeks ago and could not, for the life of me, find my old pocket journal. ARGH! I had this...
Cascadia Basics by David McCloskey
David McCloskey sent me a link to a recent interview he did with KLCC at the Oregon County Fair: Thanks, Paul, for your heartfelt reply.... I forgot to include the good news:...
33. No Cigars for Potato (from Haibun de la Serna)
Video of Coyote Guts
Greg Bem not only helped organize the uber-successful Five Alarms Lit Crawl on Friday, July 13, 2012, he performed, emceed and took video. Here is video of your humble narrator reading Coyote Guts,...
Interview Workshop at Open Books
Interviewing as Inspiration, Research, and Documentation with Paul Nelson March 10 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm, Open Books, 2414 N. 45th, Seattle. To celebrate the 25th anniversary of SPLAB (Seattle...
2.20.2019 Peter Levitt Interview
What joy in the good fortune of getting to interview Peter Levitt at his Salt Spring Island (BC) home. To see Cusheon Lake frozen so solidly that Peter reports there were people playing hockey on...
Poetry Warrior
I am delighted to be part of the Dispatches from the Poetry Wars website. I have great respect and admiration for the main co-conspirators, Michael Boughn and Kent Johnson and they have me in good...
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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