by Paul Nelson | Aug 13, 2024 | Uncategorized
I hope you can join me for a reading curated by Phoebe Bosche of the Raven Chronicles from 2-4pm on Saturday, October 19, 2024 at the Microsoft Auditorium of the Seattle Central Library: Take a Stand: Poets Against Hate. I am grateful to participate in this and love...
by Paul Nelson | Aug 3, 2024 | Uncategorized
I’m delighted to read poems again with the backing of the Jim O’Halloran Quartet, Saturday, August 17, 2024, 7pm at Bradner Gardens. The gardens are at 1730 Bradner Place South in the Mount Baker Neighborhood. The quartet Jim has assembled to back his...
by Paul Nelson | Aug 1, 2024 | Uncategorized
I was fortunate to be invited to teach spontaneous poetry methods at Holden Village, which is a spiritual retreat in the North Cascades. It is a former mining town and is a 45 minute drive from the Lucerne Landing on Lake Chelan, which itself is a 4 hour boat ride...
by Paul Nelson | Jul 7, 2024 | Uncategorized
I had no idea when Bhakti Watts and I moved to Rainier Beach in 2017 how much we would love this neighborhood, how much it would give back to us and shape our lives. And yes, we’ve each survived cancer, mine prostate cancer in 2020 and Bhakti breast cancer in...
by Paul Nelson | Jun 29, 2024 | Uncategorized
I like to think of it as projective journalism. Maybe it’s becoming a lost art to write and publish history with deep perception hours after events happen, but Susan Zakin and her crew at Journal of the Plague Years have created an anthology that in part serves...
