November 16, 2006

Paul Nelson, cofounder of SPLAB (www.splab.org), is author of an epic poem reenacting Auburn history, entitled A Time Before Slaughter. His voice has been heard on KPLU, KMTT, and other Seattle-area stations. He’s interviewed Allen Ginsberg, Michael McClure, Anne Waldman, Wanda Coleman, Diane di Prima, Jerome Rothenberg, Eileen Myles, and Victor Hernandez Cruz, has facilitated more than 200 poetry workshops, is doing his graduate work on “Open Form in North American Poetry: A Path to Liberation,” and writes an American Sentence daily (www.americansentences.com).

With no life to speak of, Walla Walla poet Charles Potts’ books in print include: The Portable Potts; Kiot: Selected Early Poems, 1963-1977; Lost River Mountain; Slash & Burn; Across the North Pacific; Little Lord Shiva: The Berkeley Poems, 1968; Nature Lovers; How the South Finally Won the Civil War: And Controls the Political Future of the United States. He has published books for twenty-five other poets. You can visit his online bookstore at www.thetemplebookstore.com.

This reading includes an interview session, where each poet will interview the other on craft, motivation, aesthetics, and other poetic matters.