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PAUL E NELSON

Social Acceleration and the Postcard Antidote

Social Acceleration and the Postcard Antidote

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...
Postcards from Here, Postcards from Mapes Creek

Postcards from Here, Postcards from Mapes Creek

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...
A Journal of the Plague Years

A Journal of the Plague Years

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...
DaySong Miracle (Past 62) Profiled on SICA-USA

DaySong Miracle (Past 62) Profiled on SICA-USA

I was delighted to see the SICA-USA blog post written about my new book DaySong Miracle (Past 62). I knew it was coming, but to read the way my Subud brother Jim O’Halloran handled the information was beautiful. He and I have collaborated many times over the...
Memory’s Vault (book)

Memory’s Vault (book)

I had the good fortune last Sunday (May 19) to be invited to participate in a reading at Memory’s Vault to celebrate the publication of the Empty Bowl book Memory’s Vault: The Poetic Heart of Fort Warden. As the Literary Executor for Sam Hamill, my...