“Over the past decade or so, no one has done more for poetry in the Pacific Northwest than has Paul Nelson.”– Sam Hamill

Lesley University COS 24 Talk

Lesley University COS 24 happens March 29, 2024 and I will give a talk on my graduate education and what has developed...

Red Pine Documentary

The last time we reported on Bill Porter (aka: Red Pine) we had traveled to his Port Townsend home for an interview....

Poetics as Cosmology at Holden Village

Thanks to poetry hermano Raul Sanchez, I'll be facilitating my Poetics as Cosmology this summer in the North Cascades...

Barry McKinnon Interview 2015

by Paul E. Nelson

Barry McKinnon is one of Canada’s most brilliant poets and he honed his art in Prince George, BC, far north of any real cultural centers. He was there in 1969 at the founding of the College of New Caledonia and the “poetry wars” of that town have become the stuff of legend.