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Poet/Teacher/Father/Broadcaster Paul E. Nelson founded Global Voices Radio and co-founded the Northwest SPokenword LAB (SPLAB!) in Auburn, Washington. He earned his M.A. from Lesley University in Organic Poetry.
Poetry and essays have been published around the world in Dirt, The Argotist, Golden Handcuffs Review, The Raven Chronicles, Unlikely Stories, Fulcrum, & the OlsonNow blog among other publications, on and off-line, and he has performed his work at Bumbershoot, the Seattle Poetry Festival, the Sacred Activism conference and many other venues.
A Broadcaster for 26 years, he interviewed Allen Ginsberg, Anne Waldman, Michael McClure, Robin Blaser, Wanda Coleman, Jerome Rothenberg, Joanne Kyger, Eileen Myles, George Bowering and other North American poets and uses sound from those interviews in poetry workshops, having facilitated more than 300. He is working on an epic poem re-enacting Auburn history titled A Time Before Slaughter & writes at least one American Sentence everyday.



