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PAUL E NELSON

Mammal Grafting

I am going to post this today though I am going to release it as a “page” or doc in Week Two of my current workshops series A Sequence of Energies. There is still room in this workshop, Sunday nights in April from 4-6pm PDT. https://py.pl/1xZpuK I will...
A Reading of Projective Verse

A Reading of Projective Verse

This post has been edited to include video of the reading of the seminal Charles Olson essay Projective Verse: It was October 1995 and I had just finished lunch with Michael McClure, the day I met him. It was after an interview we conducted at the old KZOK-FM studios...

Postcard Impersonality

Reading Mark Gonnerman’s book A Sense of the Whole: Reading Gary Snyder’s Mountains and Rivers Without End I came to Tim Dean’s essay on The Other Voice. In the essay he states that in his 40 year epic poem, since Snyder: …harmonizes a vast...