Chicago native Paul Nelson is a broadcaster, founding director of Global Voices Radio and co-founder of Auburn, Washington’s SPLAB! The Northwest SPokenword LAB. A professional broadcaster for 24 years, Paul is father of 13-year-old Rebecca Rose, has interviewed such American Open Form luminaries such as Michael McClure, Allen Ginsberg, Diane di Prima, Wanda Coleman, Jerome Rothenberg and Anne Waldman, has finished the manuscript of an epic poem re-enacting Auburn history entitled A Time Before Slaughter and writes one American Sentence every day. He has begun his graduate studies on Open Form in North American Poetry: A Path to Liberation through The Center for Traditional Medicine in Olympia and Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts and works on-air at 1077-The End.
Paul Hunter’s poems have appeared in Alaska Fisherman’s Journal, Beloit Poetry Journal, Bloomsbury Review, Crab Creek Review, Farmer’s Market, Iowa Review, North American Review, Poetry, Poetry Northwest, The Raven Chronicles and 40 other magazines. He has two previous books, Pullman (University of Washington, 1976) and Mockingbird (Jawbone Press, 1981), a third due out from now it's up to you publications, as well as two chapbooks, Lay of the Land and Clown Car. In a continuous feat of juggling, for 15 years he taught in three departments (English, social studies and art) at The Overlake School, a private college-prep school in Redmond, Washington. He is the founder of Wood Works, a small letterpress publisher that since 1994 has published a series of 20 books and chapbooks, and 42 broadsides. The father of two accomplished children, he also builds musical instruments and enjoys long-distance sailing.
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