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.
Lost in the Wilderness
Ever since my own LOST episode (details linked here) I have always followed stories of people lost in the wilderness around Seattle. I thought Yong Chun Kim was a goner for sure, when he was found...
City of Poets
It was a phrase used by C.A. Conrad when he visited Seattle and did a reading at SPLAB. He said he loved being part of our City of Poets. Our current Board President, Eze Anamalechi likes the idea...
Angel Hack (Haibun de la Serna #4)
Angel Hack by Paul Nelson 3 Angel Hack Never forget that it was an angel that invented swords. Ramón Gomez de la Serna Never forget it is the oldest Bodhisattva carries one aflame in his right hand...
Dragonfly Resurrection (Haibun de la Serna #31)
[soundcloud url="https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/33050303"] Dragonfly Resurrection by Paul Nelson 3 Dragonfly Resurrection Horse flies are smudges on the air. – Ramón Gomez de la Serna Dragonflies...
American Poetry Culture & Chinese Culture Xi Chuan
Xi Chuan gave a stellar reading at the Seattle Central library on Monday, January 9, 2012. Chris Higashi was a gracious host and Paul Manfredi a fine reader of Xi Chuan's work in English,...
49th Parallel Blues
See me read it with Jim O'Halloran on flute: https://www.facebook.com/paul.nelson/posts/165440583559985 Line breaks here are not right, but what the hell? It's #49 in a series of 99 haibun inspired...
Poet Politician: The Work of Jidi Majia
It is awkward to write on this day that my country’s President, for whom I wept on Election Day 2008, is signing into law a bill which allows any U.S. President to label someone a terrorist, eroding...
2nd Half of 2011 American Sentences
There are still two more sentences for me to write & complete eleven years of the daily practice of writing one American Sentence every day since January 1, 2001. To read more in this form, see:...
Post on Pacific Rim Poetics
For some reason, I did not get my Pacific Rim Poetics essay transferred over from OrganicPoetry.org to this here site. Today I corrected that. Here are the two epigraphs: If I open a magazine of...
American Sentences from 2011
I have begun harvesting my American Sentences from this past year. It's always a blast from my recent past to do this and this is eleven years now of writing one of these 17 syllable poems every...
The Cards I Got (2018)
Here are two short videos of the postcards I received during the 12th August POetry POstcard Fest. #APPF12. These cards were the ones I received by September 4, 2018. 50 as of mail delivery time...
#APPF12 (2018) Afterword
I did not get a chance to write about my experience with the 12th August POetry POstcard Fest yesterday as I was leaving Ian, Jennifer and Gavia Boyden and their home on San Juan Island with my...
Audio Archive Donated to WRVM
It's official now. The historic radio interview archive that was created mostly between 1993 and 2004 will now be housed at and preserved by the White River Valley Museum in beautiful Auburn,...
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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