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PAUL E NELSON

A Winter Solstice Reading

A Winter Solstice Reading

Over the past ten+ years my friend the poet and librarian Greg Bem has created some of the most inventive poetry gatherings I have ever experienced. One that involved divination and chance procedures. Several that have happened in public places with passers-by hanging...
Rainier Beach Arts & Crafts Market/New Chapbook

Rainier Beach Arts & Crafts Market/New Chapbook

I am delighted to be part of the Rainier Beach Arts & Crafts Market, December 3, from 11am to 3pm, at the Rainier Beach Community Club, 6038 S. Pilgrim Street. Bhakti and I have lived here in Casa Del Colibrí since July 2017 and we love this neighborhood. We...
Interview with Beat Nun Mary Norbert Körte

Interview with Beat Nun Mary Norbert Körte

This post, originally from November 5, 2019, has been republished in the wake of the death of Mary Norbert Körte at her home in Willits, California, Monday, November 14, 2022 at 1:30pm. She was 88. She made a splash as “the nun” at the 1965 Berkeley Poetry...
The Day Song of Casa del Colibrí: Como Sacramentos

The Day Song of Casa del Colibrí: Como Sacramentos

Available from Paul. $10. Add $3 for shipping and handling. 9030 Seward Park Av S #213Seattle, WA 98118 A new chapbook based on a writing exercise developed in the spirit of Bernadette Mayer and Pierre Joris. Audio of my reading of the poem in Lake City on Oct 17,...
Open Mic/Workshop

Open Mic/Workshop

Please join me for a free Poetics as Cosmology workshop/open mic where current and former participants will talk about something they gleaned from Poetics as Cosmology and maybe even read something they wrote during the class, or inspired by it. It is also open to...