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PAUL E NELSON

Poetics as Cosmology Workshops in Des Moines

Poetics as Cosmology Workshops in Des Moines

I am grateful to 4Culture and the Des Moines Arts Commission for the support of three free workshops next month. Poetics as Cosmology is the title of a workshop I have been facilitating online for three years. I gave a talk of the same name in March of 2022 in which I...
Poetics As Cosmology in West Seattle

Poetics As Cosmology in West Seattle

Thanks to the support of 4Culture, I am presenting a workshop I have been developing for a few years in West Seattle starting this Friday. 1pm, Oct 7, 21 & 28, 2022. There will be discussion, some examples of the approach and writing exercises. I am grateful to...
Reading in Courtenay BC

Reading in Courtenay BC

Thanks to the efforts of Ed Varney, I’ll give a short reading at ARTFUL Gallery in Courtenay, BC on Sunday, August 28th at 7pm. (526C Cumberland Road.) There will be open mic and there is a suggested donation of $10. The number of poetry readings in Cascadia has...

Make it True meets Medusario Review

Thank you Paul Constant, at the Seattle Review of Books, for the kind and (I think) perceptive review of an anthology I had a hand in bringing into the world. Make It True meets Medusario is indeed a “mashup” and Constant, who also had kind words about my...

Wanda Coleman 2002 Interview

Going through the SPLAB (IPiPP) audio archives thanks to 4Culture, I came across this interview I’d forgotten I had. Wanda Coleman from January 2002, first aired in February 2002. In it she talks about the African-American literary avant garde in the U.S., why...