Paul E NelsonPaul E Nelson founded SPLAB (Seattle Poetics LAB) & the Cascadia Poetry Festival. Since 1993 SPLAB has produced hundreds of poetry events & 600 hours of interview programming with legendary poets & whole systems activists including Allen Ginsberg, Mihael McClure, Joanne Kyger, Robin Blaser, Diane di Prima, Nate Mackey, George Bowering, Brenda Hillman & many others. Books include American Sentences, A Time Before Slaughter and Organic in Cascadia: A Sequence of Energies (2013). Co-Editor of Make It True: Poetry From Cascadia and 56 Days of August: Poetry Postcards. Paul is engaged in a 20 year bioregional cultural investigation of Cascadia, lives in Rainier Beach, in the Cascadia bioregion's Cedar River watershed and serves as literary executor for the late poet Sam Hamill. Read More Read Less