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PAUL E NELSON

Habib in Seattle

Looking back, it was October 2011 when I accepted a friend request from a man I had never met, or heard of, named El Habib Louai. He said he was a Moroccan poet and I tend to accept friend requests from poets. Right off the bat he also explained he was a Beat scholar...

428. Age of Wind (For Judy Jensen)

OK, I jumped the gun on the 2013 August POetry POstcard Fest. Though I am posting here a month after writing and sending the first poem of 2013 (& my 428th postcard poem) I started writing the poems on July 17 and not ten days later on the 27th as we tell people...

Talk at North Cascades Institute

El Habib Louai concludes his tour of Cascadia on Thursday, August 15, 2013, at 7p as he talks to participants in this year’s Beats on the Peaks event, produced by the North Cascades Institute. Habib will speak about the Beat connection with Morocco and the...

Ghost Tantra Video

The Four Hoarse Men were down a hoarse at the last Ginsberg Marathon, June 1, 2013, at the Spring Street Center, but we did have Jaci Conger taping and here’s some of the wreckage of our versions of some of Michael McClure’s Ghost Tantras. He called them...

Young Moroccan Poet & Beat Scholar Visits Seattle

El Habib Louai reads in Seattle Saturday, Sunday and Monday. Details here: https://splab.org/2013/08/moroccan-poet-el-habib-louai-visits-seattle/ We invite you to attend and spread the word. (Download poster here.) Kerouacian Epiphanies in Portland Greyhound Bus...