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PAUL E NELSON

SICA-USA Poems for Peace

SICA-USA Poems for Peace

Andrew Hall and Adelia MacWilliam are two people helping me curate a series of online readings that were conceived of by SICA, the Subud International Cultural Association. Subud is the spiritual community with which I have been associated since 2004. The Zoomuse...
Galactic Travel in Rainier Beach

Galactic Travel in Rainier Beach

What a delight to see the careful unveiling of community in this neighborhood where Bhakti and I have lived for over 4 years. The neighborhood is Rainier Beach and we live across the street from a large public housing complex with many East African immigrants. Mapes...
Haibun de la Serna World Tour

Haibun de la Serna World Tour

Now that Haibun de la Serna, my latest book of poems, is out, it is time to launch the HdlS WORLD TOUR to promote it. I am blessed to have a sympathetic publisher in Koon Woon of Goldfish Press and a sympathetic musical collaborator in Jim O’Halloran. I have the...
Haibun de la Serna Published

Haibun de la Serna Published

I am delighted to announce today that a book I finished ten years ago has just been published by Koon Woon’s Goldfish Press. Haibun de la Serna is the book. It consists of 99 neo-barroco haibun all starting with an epigraph by Ramón Gómez de la Serna. The book...
Fred Wah on The Simple, Serial Form and MHT

Fred Wah on The Simple, Serial Form and MHT

It has been over a decade since I first began to try to get Fred Wah to sit down and have an interview about his (now) 60 years of work in poetry. When we did sit in front of our respective Zoom screens on December 9, 2021, he told me it was because I was too busy!...