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PAUL E NELSON

Nate Mackey Interview Part 5

  In part 5 of my August 24, 2012 Skype interview with poet Nate Mackey, he discusses his method of writing poetry, how it is not done from an outline and a notion from the book A Musical View of the Universe which informs his approach to composition. See also:...

Interview with Nate Mackey

Ominous Animacy: Notes on an interview with Nate Mackey Interviewing Allen Ginsberg in 1994 introduced me to a deeper sense of Open Form. Interviewing Michael McClure in 1995 introduced me to Projective Verse. Reading the correspondence of Robert Duncan and Denise...