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.
447. Jacqueline Murray, Pittsburg, KS – Certain Snorts (Nasturtium)
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Poems for Peace, Seattle
I have been asked to help create a Seattle edition of the Poems for Peace event that celebrates International Peace Day on September 21. Anne Padilla and I are facilitating, preparing to make this...
446. Lisa J. Cihlar, Brodhead, WI – Certain Unshakability (Blackberries)
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42 Days of August
2013 Postcard Afterword 2013 was the 7th year of the August POetry POstcard Fest overall and the 2nd year that Brendan McBreen would be in charge of organizing and distributing the list. A call went...
445. Alley Greymond, Seattle, WA – Snake Chief on the Stairs
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443. Ericka Melby, Bartlesville, OK – Alone Under Helicopters
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442. Drew Myron PO Box 914 Yachats, Oregon – Map of the P-Patch
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441. Savannah Featherstone, Victoria, BC – Not The Practice of Inside
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Tit Nun, Jilly Rizzo and American Sentences
Old pal Dick Rosetti, with whom I worked at KNDD (The End), asked me to sit in with his band Jilly Rizzo on September 14th at the Skylark Club, 3803 Delridge Way S.W. in West Seattle. They are...
Graham Isaac Interview Part 1
Graham Isaac is a writer living and working in Seattle, Washington. He holds an MA in Creative and Media Writing from the University of Wales, Swansea, where he co-founded The Crunch, South Wales’...
BIPF Virtual Poetry Fest/Zoomuse
One of the big joys of poetry is to go to festivals, maybe have a chance to read, but certainly have a chance to be in the company of other living poets and talking shop, craft and opportunities....
Zoom McClure Tribute
One of my poetry heroes died May 4. I met and interviewed Michael McClure in 1995 when he was visiting Seattle to promote the book Three Poems with the new long poem Dolphin Skull as the first of...
Zoomuse, Reading for Subud
SICA-International, the cultural wing of my spiritual community, Subud, has created a weekly cyber poetry series featuring Subud members from round the world who write poetry. I will be featured...
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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