An updated version of the Allen Ginsberg poem America, based on a notion of George Bowering that Americans living in the U.S. should not call themselves "Americans" but USAmericans, since they are not the only people of this hemisphere. http://paulenelson.com/2014/05/05/usamerica-after-allen-ginsberg/

USAmerica

http://paulenelson.com/2015/06/27/bc-poet-jamie-reid-dead-at-74/  Homage to the late BC poet Jamie Reid

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#34 in a series of poems written after the poems in Joanne Kyger's Book "On Time."

http://paulenelson.com/2015/12/26/34-eighty-seven-remarkable-or-fun-things-about-paul-e-nelson-sr-or-charles-olson-on-what-wouldve-been-their-87th-or-105th-birthdays-dec-27-2015/

34. Eighty-Seven Remarkable (or Fun) Things about Paul E Nelson Sr. & Or Charles Olson Dec 27, 2015.

http://paulenelson.com/2015/12/31/520-devil-wrestling/ Latest poem from the 2015 August Poetry Postcard Fest.

520. Devil Wrestling

http://paulenelson.com/2015/12/31/a-subud-new-years-eve/ 

A Subud New Year's Eve

http://paulenelson.com/2016/01/10/521-composed-in-solidarity/

521. Composed in Solidarity

http://paulenelson.com/2016/01/28/523-body-speech-mind/ from the 2015 August Poetry Postcard Fest

523. Body, Speech, Mind

http://paulenelson.com/2016/02/17/hummingbird-resuscitation/

550. Stunned Hummingbird

Written for Amalio Madueño after a trip to Embudo (Taos) NM.
http://paulenelson.com/2016/04/20/postcards-for-garcia/

Postcards For Garcia

An ekphrastic poem inspired by the Neukom Vivarium in Seattle's Olympic Sculpture Park. Photo courtesy of Bryan King.

Neukom Vivarium Variations

Sam Hamill reads True Peace at Doe Bay on Orcas Island, October 31, 2010. Photo by Susan Slapin.

True Peace

A poem written for David McCloskey about a whale that lost her calf and pushed it around the Salish Sea now for over a week.

Elegy for Tahlequah's Calf

Paul Nelson is a poet, interviewer, essayist. He founded Cascadia Poetics LAB & the Cascadia Poetry Festival & his published books include: American Sentences (poems, 2021, 2015), A Time Before Slaughter (poetry, shortlisted for a 2010 Genius Award by The Stranger) and ATBS/Pig War & Other Songs of Cascadia (2020), American Prophets (Interviews 1994-2012).

He’s interviewed Allen Ginsberg, Brenda Hillman, Diane diPrima, Michael McClure, Sam Hamill, Anne Waldman, José Kozer, Robin Blaser, Nate Mackey and many other poets, is father to Rebecca Rose and Ella Roque and lives in Seattle's Rainier Beach neighborhood in the Cedar River watershed of the Cascadia bioregion.

Paul E Nelson (poet)

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