by Paul Nelson | Feb 20, 2013 | Uncategorized
I was tagged by C.E. Putnam for this project, the Next Big Thing self-interview. I tagged 6 other writers whose work I admire and will post links to their answers once they send them to me. The trick for me was that I have three book projects percolating. Actually,...
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...
by Paul Nelson | Jul 3, 2012 | Uncategorized
Yesterday (July 2, 2012) I was fortunate enough to get a chance to interview George Stanley at his Vancouver apartment. A San Francisco native, he studied with Jack Spicer and Robert Duncan in the fertile early days of the so-called San Francisco Renaissance of the...
by Paul Nelson | Dec 12, 2011 | Uncategorized
I’ve been migrating my Org Po essays from OrganicPoetry.org to this site. This was the introductory page to the essays on that site. Comments are welcome. A book is coming out in 2012 from Apprentice House: Organic Poetry Essays These essays were first created...
