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PAUL E NELSON

Poetry & Music (Paul Reads with Blunck)

What does it mean when the Existential Trio is actually a quartet? What happens to poems when they are read with music backing? Do they become songs? I’ve been very fortunate to have some excellent musicians as collaborators in performance over the past 15 years...

Sam Hamill and Christopher Yohmei Blasdel

Please join us Saturday, November 1, 2014, at 7:30, for an evening of poetry and music as Sam Hamill and Christopher Yohmei Blasdel are reunited for one evening at Spring Street Center, 1101 15th in Seattle at the corner of 15th & Spring. This event is made...

487. Sin Carne

This poetry postcard was written August 11, 2014, also at the 14th Subud World Congress. The Bhakti referenced is Subud Portland Co-Chair Bhakti Watts whose name means “devoted one.”

Climate March, Poetry & Proprioception

I was delighted to learn that in addition to a Subud couple from Portland, my friend Stephen Collis also traveled to New York to participate in the huge Climate March on September 21, 2014. His report on it reminded me of my experience at the WTO protest in 1999 to...