Poet and interviewer Paul E. Nelson founded Cascadia Poetics Lab (formerly SPLAB) & the Cascadia Poetry Festival. He wrote A Time Before Slaughter (shortlisted for a 2010 Genius Award by The Stranger) and a second edition in 2020 which includes a new section of his ongoing serial poem entitled: Pig War: & Other Songs of Cascadia and also: American Prophets: Interviews 1994-2012, and Organic in Cascadia: A Sequence of Energies (book-length-essay, Lumme Editions, Brazil, 2013). Forthcoming in 2022: Haibun De la Serna. He's interviewed Allen Ginsberg, Joanne Kyger, Micheal McClure, Sam Hamill, Brenda Hillman, José Kozer, Diane di Prima, Robin Blaser, Nate Mackey, George Bowering and Daphne Marlatt; presented poetry/poetics in London, Brussels, Vancouver, Nanaimo, Qinghai & Beijing, China, and writes an American Sentence every day. Awarded a residency at The Lake, from the Morris Graves Foundation in Loleta, CA, he's been published in Rattle, Pocket Lint, Journal of the Plague Year, Dispatches from the Poetry Wars, the For Love of Orcas anthology, the South Seattle Emerald, Golden Handcuffs Review, Zen Monster, Hambone, won the 2014 Robin Blaser Award from the Capilano Review and lives in the Cedar River watershed in the Cascadia bioregion with Bhakti Watts & youngest daughter Ella Roque. www.PaulENelson.

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