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Paul Nelson [1]

Listed as: 
Poet
Public address: 
Seattle, WA
Washington US
Email: 
splabman@icloud.com
Bio: 

Paul E Nelson founded the Cascadia Poetics Lab in 1993 & the Cascadia Poetry Festival in 2012, wrote: American Sentences, A Time Before Slaughter and is Co-Editor of Make It True: Poetry From Cascadia, 56 Days of August: Poetry Postcards, Make It True meets Medusario and the Samthology:Tribute to Sam Hamill. His book of interviews taken from 16 of his 600+ interviews is: American Prophets (Interviews 1994-2012.) Hear interviews at his blog: PaulENelson.com and his new podcast Cascadian Prophets. Winner of the 2015 Robin Blaser Award, given my the Capilano Review, he was a professional radio broadcaster (announcer/interviewer) for 26 years and lives with his partner Bhakti Watts and daughter Ella in the TUX woo' kwib/Duwamish watershed of the Cascadia bioregion.

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
In which languages are you fluent?: 
English
Favorite authors: 
Michael McClure, Sam Hamill, Brenda Hillman, Diane di Prima, Wanda Coleman, Charles Olson, William Carlos Williams, Sharon Thesen, Barry McKinnon, Daphne Marlatt, Joanne Kyger, George Bowering...
Twitter/X: 
https://twitter.com/splabman
Born in: 
Chicago, IL
Illinois
Raised in: 
Chicago, IL
Illinois
RSS feed: 
http://paulenelson.com/feed/ [2]
Website: 
https://paulenelson.com [3]
Prizes won: 

2014, Robin Blaser Award, Capilano Review

2012, Residency at The Lake, Morris Graves Founbdation, Loleta, CA

2010, Stranger Genius Award in Literature (shortlist for A Time Before Slaughter)

 

Education: 
Lesley University
What I'm reading now: 
Revolutionary Letters by Diane di Prima
Identifies as: 
Hispanic
Prefers to work with: 
Adults
At Risk Youth
Incarcerated Individuals
LGBTQ
Naturalists/Environmentalists
Parents
Schools
Seniors
Teachers
Veterans

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