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PAUL E NELSON

Lesley University COS 24 Talk

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 since then. COS stands for Community of Scholars and I am proud to be one, proud of what I did at Lesley and delighted with where it has led me. You...
Red Pine Documentary

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. See: https://paulenelson.com/2019/10/14/red-pine-bill-porter-interview/ Now he’s the subject of a documentary film: DANCING WITH THE DEAD: Red...
Poetics as Cosmology at Holden Village

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 and you are welcome to hang out. The place is Holden Village. “Over the course of more than 60 years, Holden Village has been transformed...
Tessa Hulls Interview (Feeding Ghosts)

Tessa Hulls Interview (Feeding Ghosts)

Tessa Hulls and I met when she donated a poster for the 2013 edition of the Allen Ginsberg Open Mic Poetry marathon. On February 20, 2024 I caught up with her on Zoom to discuss her first book, a graphic memoir Feeding Ghosts. The interview’s Zoom version is...
Article on Cascadia by a Writer in London

Article on Cascadia by a Writer in London

The notion of bioregionalism and Cascadia has spread at least to London. I was interviewed on the subject of Cascadia by Gus Mitchell, a London-based free lance writer and was delighted to see my thoughts reflected in a good way, along with other Cascadians whom I...