by Paul Nelson | Dec 8, 2022 | Uncategorized
Over the past ten+ years my friend the poet and librarian Greg Bem has created some of the most inventive poetry gatherings I have ever experienced. One that involved divination and chance procedures. Several that have happened in public places with passers-by hanging...
by Paul Nelson | Mar 28, 2022 | Uncategorized
I recently participated in a couple of readings dedicated to addressing the Russian war in Ukraine. One event I had a hand in organizing. I was honored to be asked to read for the other. March 15 there was this event Lyn Coffin and Leopoldo Seguel organized it and had...
by Paul Nelson | May 12, 2020 | Uncategorized
I’m delighted to have work in a new anthology entitled: Strange Fruit: Poems on the Death Penalty. It was edited by Sarah Zale and Terry Persun and seeing that our shelter-in-place restrictions designed to prevent further spread of the COVID-19 novel coronavirus...
by Paul Nelson | Mar 18, 2019 | Uncategorized
The joy of hanging out with poets and NOT having to attend AWP!!! Thank you Knox Gardner for lining up this with your humble narrator and other SPLAB poets: Saturday, March 30, 2019 at 7:30 PM – 12M From Entre Rios Books: Twenty six of the Northwest’s many of...
by Paul Nelson | Jan 19, 2019 | Uncategorized
From the introduction (by Matt Trease) of an upcoming anthology I have had a hand in bringing into the world: Some Background This anthology is the result of a collaboration between Cuban Neobarroco poet José Kozer and Paul E Nelson, founder of the Seattle Poetics Lab...
