by Paul Nelson | Feb 19, 2013 | Uncategorized
It was early in 2012 that I finally acted on my interest in sound poetry. I had heard Dada sound poems, Jerome Rothenberg’s recitation of the sound poetry of Hugo Ball, the Canadian group the Four Horsemen and Michael McClure’s Ghost Tantras, composed in a...
by Paul Nelson | Jan 13, 2013 | Uncategorized
We’d planned to interview Thomas Walton about the publication he edits and publishes, Pageboy Magazine, as well as contributor Sierra Nelson not long before it was deemed BEST LITERARY MAGAZINE IN SEATTLE by the local alternative newsweekly, The Stranger, but...
by Paul Nelson | Oct 20, 2012 | Uncategorized
Michael McClure turns 80 today, October 20, 2012. A leading USAmerican poet, playwright, essayist and novelist, he was born in Kansas, but spent some of his formative years in Seattle and is considered a Black Mountain poet, a Beat poet and a poet of the San Francisco...
by Paul Nelson | Sep 30, 2012 | Uncategorized
Organic in Cascadia: A Sequence of Energies A presentation for UW Bothell Convergence on Poetics, September 30, 2012 (See also: https://paulenelson.com/2013/06/03/organic-in-cascadia-translated-for-brazilians/) Use of term Organic, stems from its use in the early 60s...
by Paul Nelson | Sep 25, 2012 | Uncategorized
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...
