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PAUL E NELSON

Reading in Ukiah

I will be heading to extreme Southern Cascadia Thursday, and go out of the bioregion to read in Ukiah, California. I am headed south to meet and interview Mary Norbert Körte, a poet, and former Catholic nun who had a spiritual epiphany attending the 1965 Berkeley...

Happy 87th Michael McClure

I loved hearing Michael McClure and Allen Ginsberg at Naropa in 1976. See: Allen Ginsberg & Michael McClure – 1976 Naropa “Retrospective” Reading and thinking that may have been the visit where Michael did his presentation on the Personal...

Red Pine (Bill Porter) Interview

I had the good fortune to visit Bill Porter, the translator of ancient Chinese poetry and sacred texts, and interview him at his Port Townsend home on August 28, 2019. His latest books at the time were Cathay Revisited & Dancing with the Dead, Stonehouse’s...