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.
Volunteer Poetry Teachers Needed for the King County Jail
This from Michael Hood: The Programs Department at King County Jail is looking for 2 committed volunteers of either gender to teach a weekly creative writing class for men. This is one of the...
Paul Nelson, Doe Bay Pig War writing residency
As you might have guessed if you've seen the photo of my daughter Rebecca and my Mom at Doe Bay when Rebecca was about 3 (1994), I have been going to Doe Bay Resort and Retreat for many years. In...
AG Marathon June 2, 2012 8PM
The Ginsberg Marathon this year happens Saturday, June 2 at SPLAB and may be SPLAB's last big event in Columbia City. Band of Poets is featured along with Mickey O'Connor. (See photos). This from...
The Latest from the Four Hoarse Men SOund POetry Troupe
Greg Bem, Jason Conger & Joe Chiveney, poets I met through SPLAB, liked my idea of doing a cover of a Four Horsemen Sound Poem. I had seen the clip from Ron Mann's documentary, Poetry in Motion...
The Cafe Review, Portland, ME, Spr. ’12
I was fortunate enough to have some poems published in the latest edition of The Cafe Review out of Portland, Maine. There are some other very fine poets published in this edition. See: They...
Harvest The Arts, Mother’s Day in Mt. Baker
I performed with Jim O'Halloran (flute), Greg Powers (tuba) and Michael Nicolella (guitar) yesterday on a Mother's Day program at the Mount Baker Community Clubhouse. The new Poet Laureate Kathleen...
60. Hymn to Indian Plum
60. Hymn to Indian Plum (pdf)
54. Black Dragon Year
54. Black Dragon Year (see 54. Black Dragon Year for proper lineation) The heart measures in blood everything that happens. – Ramón Gomez de la Serna The dragon stays stuck to lampposts at the...
HARVEST THE ARTS! Mother’s Day Edition :: JAZZ & POETRY
2811 Mount Rainier Drive South Seattle, WA 98144 (206) 722-7209 3:30pm, Mother's Day, Sunday, May 20, 2012 Donations Graciously Accepted. Refreshments Provided.A collaborative program of poetry,...
Paul Nelson Interviewed by Steve Barker
My gratitude for Steve Barker for taking time to look over my websites and conduct an intelligent interview about my poetry, about SPLAB and some interviews that I have conducted over the years....
American Prophets @ Elliott Bay Books
I am delighted to be making a presentation about my new book of transcribed interviews, American Prophets, at the legendary Elliott Bay Books, Sunday, February 3, at 3pm. I'm hoping to play some...
Make It True meets Medusario
From the introduction (by Matt Trease) of an upcoming anthology I have had a hand in bringing into the world: Some Background This anthology is the result of a collaboration between Cuban Neobarroco...
Paul E Nelson’s Interviews by Jason Wirth
It was a very humbling experience for me Friday, December 14, 2018, to hear very intelligent and considerate people talk about different aspects of SPLAB's 25 years in existence, with a special...
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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