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Announcing the Cascadia Poetics Lab!

Announcing the Cascadia Poetics Lab!

Welcome to the new website of the Cascadia Poetics Lab. Today, with the assistance of web genius Roberta Hoffman, the CPL Board of Directors and other expert support, we launch our new name and a new era for this organization that was founded December 14, 1993. SPLAB...
Post-Fest Open Mic

Post-Fest Open Mic

This year’s post-Poetry Postcard Fest open mic will happen Saturday, September 4 at 10am PDT via Zoom. https://us02web.zoom.us/s/2064225002 If you would like to help coordinate it, please let me know. We plan to record it for folks who are away on Labor Day...
Cascadian Zen

Cascadian Zen

What is the nature of the bioregion known as Cascadia? How is this insight expressed by the people who live, work, practice, and play here? Is there a connection between Zen practice, broadly construed, and the Cascadia bioregion? If so, what is it? Who have been the...
Wanda Coleman Interview

Wanda Coleman Interview

Wanda Coleman Interview by Paul E. Nelson https://media.blubrry.com/Cascadian_Prophets/p/paulenelson.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/3.Wanda_Coleman_Focus_312_2.17.2002_Interview_Part_2_14.58.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 14:57 —...
David Abel Spare Room Reading Series

David Abel Spare Room Reading Series

David abel – Part 1 FORMATION OF SPARE ROOM READING SERIES by Paul E. Nelson https://media.blubrry.com/Cascadian_Prophets/p/paulenelson.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/David-Abel-4.26.13-Part-1.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 9:18 —...
Samthology: A Tribute to Sam Hamill

Samthology: A Tribute to Sam Hamill

by Paul E Nelson (Editor), Cate Gable (Editor), Lyn Coffin (Editor) A tribute to Sam Hamill in verse, essays and an exclusive interview, edited by Paul E Nelson, Ian Boyden and Cate Gable. Poems in English, Spanish and French. Contributors include Alexis Bernaut, Ian...
make it True meets Medusario

make it True meets Medusario

Edited by Jose Kozer, Paul E Nelson, and Thomas Walton Make It True meets Medusario, a bilingual poetry anthology, brings together poets from divergent languages, cultures, and aesthetics to create a conversation a fertile meeting place for ongoing ideas about...
56 Days of August

56 Days of August

by Ina Roy-Faderman (Author), Paul E. Nelson (Editor), J.I. Kleinberg (Editor) Postcards are electric. I get excited just turning a rack of postcards around at the drugstore. There was a time before Facebook and Twitter and Instagram when we sent postcards to people....
American Sentences

American Sentences

By Paul E Nelson This is a collection of American Sentences…A collection of 17-syllable sentences-the North American version of haiku, a form created by Allen Ginsberg-from a poet who has written one per day for 11 years. Order...
Make It True: Poetry From Cascadia

Make It True: Poetry From Cascadia

By Paul E. Nelson A collection from poets writing from the bioregion lying west of the continental divide, spanning from Cape Mendocino in the south to Mt. Logan in the north. An attempt to deepen the sense of place. A call to inhabit it as if our lives and...
Three Friends Carousel: Tiovivo Tres Amigos

Three Friends Carousel: Tiovivo Tres Amigos

An Interview and Ten Poems Jose Kozer interview by Paul Nelson Three Friends Carousel is the transcript of an interview conducted with Neruda-prize winning poet José Kozer at his Hallendale Beach home over two days, January 18 and 19, 2015, by Paul Nelson. The...