organicpoetry.org - Organic Poetry - Paul E Nelson

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is a spontaneous composition process in which the writer engages speech “at its least careless and least logical” in the words of Charles Olson from his 1950 essay Projective Verse . Paul’s essays pertaining to this subject are found here .

Much of the source material for this stance-toward-poem-making was developed through 14 years of hosting (& later syndicating) a radio program on Whole-Systems approaches. I am convinced the shift Organic Poetry represents (from reductionist to organismic) is that shift in literature.

The term Organic is taken from correspondence between Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov from 1963 in which Robert Duncan described the difference between Conventional, Free Verse and Organic poets:

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