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.
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 String 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...
Celebration of Koon Woon
On Wednesday night at C&P Coffee Company in West Seattle, longtime Seattle poet and publisher Koon Woon was honored by his friends, by poets who he mentored and those who love him. Here is the...
An Ocean of Time—The Poetry of Sam Hamill Set to Song
Jan 2, 2026 Interview with Cornelius Eady on Proof
On January 1, 2026, a 34-year-old, immigrant, Muslim, democratic socialist mayor was sworn in to run the largest city in the United States. When asked by the Nation magazine if this unlikely event...
New Edition of Entrance
As a contributor to En-trance Journal, I'm delighted to announce that an excerpt from my last interview with Sharon Thesen is part of the offering: https://www.entrancejournal.net/ Sharon has a...
12 or 20 (second series) questions from rob mclennan
I was delighted to be interviewed via email by rob mclennan, a tireless Canadian poet and supporter of North American poetry. The link is:...
Paul Reads w/ Jim O’Halloran Quartert @ Bradner Gardens
It's that time of year again when I get to read some poems backed by a Jazz band led by my friend & Subud brother Jim O'Halloran. This year he has an impressive lineup and I am the only poet....
margareta waterman (1932-2026)
I was saddened to hear of the death of margareta waterman, who preferred to have her name spelled in lower case. I met her through Red Sky Poetry Theater, which had a large role in helping to...
In Honor of David McCloskey “The Father of Cascadia”
David McCloskey passed away on July 3. In honor of his lifetime of work to create and spread a culture that was deeply connected to the Cascadian bioregion, Cascadian Prophets, which owes more than just its name to his work, we want to share this interview from October, 2013. Find it transcribed on our website.
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In Honor of David McCloskey "The Father of Cascadia"
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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