by Paul Nelson | Sep 24, 2014 | POPO
Was going over last year’s journal entry for this date and came across John Olson’s wonderful birthday poem for me, as well as some of his comments regarding my essay Organic In Cascadia: A Sequence of Energies. He said: Dear Paul, Glad you dug the...
by Paul Nelson | Jun 12, 2014 | Uncategorized
Mer and I recently returned from a mammoth road trip from Seattle to Minneapolis, Chicago, DC, Pittsburgh, Decatur, Indiana, Chicago, Minneapolis, Sutherland, Nebraska, Denver, Laramie and Hailey, Idaho. Since we have taken the I-90 route to the Twin Cities, Chicago...
by Paul Nelson | Mar 4, 2014 | Uncategorized
With the AWP Conference just concluded in Seattle, I had many opportunities to see my home through the eyes of others, be a guide to the best of what’s here, the cultural mores and to even feel defensive about those who would have a jab or two at this, my city....
by Paul Nelson | Nov 17, 2013 | Uncategorized
After hearing about the concept in bioregionalism (in about 1991 or so) and getting interested in an organizing effort that went deeper than politics, I created the Cascadia Poetry Festival in March of 2012 at the former SPLAB in the old Columbia School. (The details...
by Paul Nelson | Oct 25, 2013 | Uncategorized
Who could resist the term meteorologist Cliff Mass is using for this deeply socked-in fog situation we find ourselves cutting through here in Seattle? Fogmageddon. Not me. Combine that with the beauty which seems to stand out in the fog around here AND other current...
