by Paul Nelson | May 28, 2012 | Uncategorized
As you might have guessed if you’ve seen the photo of my daughter Rebecca and my Mom at Doe Bay when Rebecca was about 3 (1994), I have been going to Doe Bay Resort and Retreat for many years. In fact, my first trip there was April 1991, a month before Rebecca...
by Paul Nelson | May 28, 2012 | Uncategorized
The Ginsberg Marathon this year happens Saturday, June 2 at SPLAB and may be SPLAB’s last big event in Columbia City. Band of Poets is featured along with Mickey O’Connor. (See photos). This from BoP’s John Burgess: Set List for Ginsberg Marathon...
by Paul Nelson | May 18, 2012 | Uncategorized
Greg Bem, Jason Conger & Joe Chiveney, poets I met through SPLAB, liked my idea of doing a cover of a Four Horsemen Sound Poem. I had seen the clip from Ron Mann’s documentary, Poetry in Motion (1981) and proposed the idea of performing it at the Breadline...
by Paul Nelson | May 15, 2012 | Uncategorized
I was fortunate enough to have some poems published in the latest edition of The Cafe Review out of Portland, Maine. There are some other very fine poets published in this edition. See: They selected three haibun of mine from the series Haibun de la Serna. I am...
by Paul Nelson | May 14, 2012 | Uncategorized
I performed with Jim O’Halloran (flute), Greg Powers (tuba) and Michael Nicolella (guitar) yesterday on a Mother’s Day program at the Mount Baker Community Clubhouse. The new Poet Laureate Kathleen Flenniken also read and closed the program. The theme was...
