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PAUL E NELSON

LARFP 2 (1Q 2022)

This page is for participants in the Life as Rehearsal for the Poem workshop, Year 2 (2021/2022). (How this got its name, here.) Workshops will happen from 4-6pm Sundays: January 16, 23, 30 & Feb 6 & 13. Registration is open HERE. WEEK ONE Jan 16, 2022 A...
Seriality (A 2022 Workshop:

Seriality (A 2022 Workshop:

In this workshop we take the methods and the organismic stance toward poetics (& life) and continue to investigate how to deepen one’s own work and life through spontaneous writing, rituals, honing the intuition, exercising the imagination & discovering the...

American Prophets Interviews

Over the past decade or so, no one has done more for poetry in the Pacific Northwest than has Paul Nelson. He has sponsored and hosted free public readings and workshops while bringing to Seattle notable poets like Wanda Coleman, Nate Mackey, Michael McClure, Brenda...

American Prophets – original layout

Order American Prophets online here. It is our first book of transcribed interviews to come out after 30+ years of doing interviews. If you are an Amazon.com customer, please consider listing SPLAB as your non-profit beneficiary via Smile.Amazon.com. Over the past...
Cascadian Zen

Cascadian Zen

What is the nature of the bioregion known as Cascadia? How is this insight expressed by the people who live, work, practice, and play here? Is there a connection between Zen practice, broadly construed, and the Cascadia bioregion? If so, what is it? Who have been the...