Interview with Paul E. Nelson: Part 1

Paul E. Nelson interviewed by David Gilmour. Part 1 of 2. Paul E Nelson is a poet, interviewer, father and literary activist engaged in a 20 year bioregional cultural investigation of Cascadia. Paul Nelson founded SPLAB in Seattle and the Cascadia Poetry Festival. Author of Organic Poetry (essays), a serial poem re-enacting history, A Time Before Slaughter (shortlisted for a 2010 Genius Award by The Stranger) and Organic in Cascadia: A Sequence of Energies. Co-editor of Make It True: Poetry from Cascadia, he has interviewed Allen Ginsberg, Michael McClure, Ethelbert Miller, Anne Waldman, Sam Hamill, Robin Blaser, Nate Mackey, Eileen Myles, George Bowering, Joanne Kyger, Brenda Hillman, presented poetry and poetics in London, Brussels, Qinghai and Beijing, China, has been translated into Spanish, Chinese and Portuguese & writes an American Sentence every day. Work has been published in Golden Handcuffs Review, Zen Monster, Hambone, and in other journals and online magazines. Engaged in a twenty year bioregional cultural investigation of Cascadia, he lives in the Cedar River Watershed, in Seattle, with his partner Bhakti Watts and youngest daughter Ella Roque. www.PaulENelson.com.