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.
Paul E. Nelson, Clyfford Still Museum Institute Residential Fellowship Program
04.20.26 for immediate release The Clyfford Still Museum Institute Residential Fellowship Program has announced its 2026 selections and named Paul E. Nelson as one of the Residential Fellows for the...
Interview with Aldon Lynn Nielsen on Gil Scott-Heron
I was a sophomore at Wright Junior College in Chicago in 1981, quite determined to be a professional broadcaster, listening to the progressive FM station that shaped my whole cosmology when a song...
Rainier Beach Arts Roundtable & Mapes Creek
It's kind of a joke in the bioregional community that bioregionalists are people who fly all over the world to tell you how important it is to be rooted to place. A lot of truth in that joke. Here...
Clyfford Still Museum 2026 Institute Residential Fellowship
Your humble narrator was awarded a Residential Fellowship for July 2026 at the Clyfford Still Museum. Here was my pitch video: As noted in the video (did you watch it?) I first became aware of...
Lorin Medley Interview
Our latest Cascadian Prophets podcast interview is now up. Lorin Medley is a poet from Comox, B.C. Her first chapbook is On The Way to Kluusms, published by Watershed Press. Lorin Medley's poetry is...
We are Axolotls: Somos Ajolotes Anthology
I'm delighted to have work in a new bilingual anthology! From the Carbonation Press website: We are Axolotls: Somos Ajolotes is an edited collection of major US Latin@ poets, who have lived in the...
Gallery 100 Panel Discussion The Beauty Shop
I have the good fortune of being a moderator at Gallery 110 this Saturday from 4 to 6. 110 3rd Avenue S, Seattle. Saundra Fleming is one of 5 painters who are known as Beauty Shop. Their new exhibit...
Theodore Roethke, 1st Cascadia Poet
I had the good fortune to interview Bill Barillas on The North American Sequence of Theodore Roethke. Sam Hamill told me before he died that this sequence was the beginning of Cascadian poetry and...
12 Stringed Mind in the Place of Sand Imbolc 2026 DaySong @ Poetry Bridge
I've been fortunate to have been offered featured readings over the last few years at Poetry Bridge, which happens at C and P Coffee Company in West Seattle. My next featured reading there is...
Ralph Towner 1940-2026
One of my greatest disappointments in life is that I never saw Ralph Towner in concert. He died today in Rome. There are many places online where you can get the details of his life and career and I...
Poetry @ ScribFest
I'm delighted to be part of a panel and performance at ScribFest, Saturday, June 20, at 10am. From the ScribLab website: "Scrib Fest brings PNW performance writers together for a weekend of...
Xavier Cavazos interviews Paul E Nelson
I had the good fortune of being interviewed today by Xavier Cavazos for his class at Central Washington University. He prepared with some intelligent questions about poetry editing, curating...
PAMLA in Seattle in November
I got this today:Pacific Ancient and Modern Language AssociationTuesday, May 12, 2026Dear Paul Nelson,I hope this email finds you well. I’m writing to invite you (and your colleagues or graduate...
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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