Paul Nelson's Profile

1. Founded Global Voices Radio, co-founded SPLAB in Auburn, WA.
2. Earned M.A. in Organic Poetry.
3. Published in: The Argotist, Golden Handcuffs Review, Raven Chronicles, Fulcrum, OlsonNow blog.
4. Performed at: Bumbershoot, Seattle Poetry Festival, Burning Word, Sacred Activism Conference.
5. Interviewed Allen Ginsberg, Anne Waldman, Michael McClure, Robin Blaser, Wanda Coleman, George Bowering, Joanne Kyger, Victor Hernandez Cruz.
6. Authored: A Time Before Slaughter.
7. President: Washington Poets Association.
8. Writes: American Sentences Postcard Poems.

1. A non-profit corporation which syndicated radio shows on Whole Systems approaches to the challenges facing individuals and communities.
2. A stance-toward-poem-making, after Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, based on Whiteheadian reality in which the poem is written spontaneously and is less a product of a writing session (the record of an event) but the mind’s continuous nerve movie (Whalen).
3. In the new Golden Handcuffs Review, (Winter/Spring 2007/08, Vol. 1, #9) there is a poem from A Time Before Slaughter as well as an interview conducted with Robin Blaser.
4. Sometimes in collaboration with a saxophonist, sometimes a dancer. With 26 years of radio experience, comfortable at the mic.
5. Some sound from said interviews are at http://www.splab.org
6. A serial poem to be published in 2009, reenacting historical moments in Auburn, Washington, such as the dynamiting of one of the local rivers, the treatment of Native and Japanese-Americans and personal history of a man seeking to find the mythic in the everyday.
7. Not as prestigious as it sounds, more a case of no one else wanted the task.
8. 17 syllable sentences, based on Allen Ginsberg’s Americanization of haiku. Postcard poems are verses written spontaneously onto postcards and then sent via the USPS.

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