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PAUL E NELSON

Reading at Seattle U Philosophy Conference

Reading at Seattle U Philosophy Conference

I am delighted to be part of a poetry reading as part of The 14th Annual Meeting of the Pacific Association for the Continental Tradition at Seattle University. The reading will be Friday, September 8 at Pigott 101, which is essentially at 12th & Marion: 5:00 PM:...
The Day Song of Casa del Colibrí: Como Sacramentos

The Day Song of Casa del Colibrí: Como Sacramentos

Available from Paul. $10. Add $3 for shipping and handling. 9030 Seward Park Av S #213Seattle, WA 98118 A new chapbook based on a writing exercise developed in the spirit of Bernadette Mayer and Pierre Joris. Audio of my reading of the poem in Lake City on Oct 17,...
Pierre Joris Interview (Canto Diurno #1, 2-MAY-2022)

Pierre Joris Interview (Canto Diurno #1, 2-MAY-2022)

It’s a pretty ambitious goal to write an epic poem in a day. Bernadette Mayer’s Midwinter Day, an epic about the daily routine written on Winter Solstice 1978, is like no other project that I know of, except for Canto Diurno #1. That 1986 poem by Pierre Joris is also...

End of the World Anthology

I’m delighted to have work in a new anthology entitled The End of the World Project. It was compiled by Richard Lopez, John Bloomberg-Rissman and T.C. Marshall and is so huge that it takes two books to contain it all:       The list of poets...