Paul Nelson is founder of SPLAB in Seattle and the Cascadia Poetry Festival. He wrote a collection of essays, Organic Poetry and a serial poem re-enacting the history of Auburn, WA, A Time Before Slaughter (shortlisted
for a 2010 Genius Award by The Stranger.) One of his main writing
projects currently is the next chapter of the history-in-verse mode of
the Slaughter poem entitled Pig War & Other Songs of Cascadia.
He interviewed Allen Ginsberg, Michael McClure, Wanda Coleman, Anne
Waldman, Sam Hamill, Robin Blaser, Nate Mackey, Eileen Myles, George
Bowering, Diane di Prima, Joanne Kyger, George Stanley, Brenda Hillman,
Emily Kendal Frey & many Cascadia poets.
He
has presented his poetry and poetics in London, Brussels, Vancouver,
Qinghai, and Beijing, China, Victoria, Nanaimo, Lake Forest, Illinois
and other places & writes an American Sentence every day.
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