by Paul Nelson | Jul 31, 2017 | Uncategorized
Was having after-party drinks and tacos with Nadine Maestas and we were commiserating about the intensity of people of Latino descent. When you have a name like Nadine Antoinette Maestas, and you are from New Mexico, people have a sense that you have Latinx roots....
by Paul Nelson | Feb 5, 2013 | Uncategorized
Peter Munro has been kind enough to invite me to be the featured poet at his fine open mic in Wedgwood on Monday, February 11, 2013. I will be reading some classics, some American Sentences, some haibun and poems from Pig War & Other Songs of Cascadia. If my book...
by Paul Nelson | Nov 22, 2012 | Uncategorized
On this Thanksgiving Day 2012, as I continue to digitize the SPLAB audio interview archives, I feel it fitting to present Dr. Rudy Ryser, Chair of the Center for World Indigenous Studies in Olympia, Washington. While I resonated quite deeply with the message Dr. Ryser...
by Paul Nelson | Nov 21, 2012 | Uncategorized
James O’Dea – The Science of Consciousness The former Director of the Washington, DC, office of Amnesty International was President of the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IoNS) when he talked about that organization’s work on Northwestern...
by Paul Nelson | Oct 17, 2012 | Uncategorized
In part four of my August 24, 2012 interview with poet Nate Mackey, he talks about his practice of 2nd takes in his books Splay Anthem and Nod House, the allusions to Jazz suggested by such a practice and his method of numbering the segments of “Mu” and...
