by Paul Nelson | Nov 3, 2021 | Uncategorized
Thirteen months ago I started facilitating workshops again and I never knew how much joy and inspiration could come from engaging people at a deep level via Zoom poetry workshops. And before I get far into this missive, please listen to Pat Martino’s rendition...
by Paul Nelson | Oct 26, 2021 | Uncategorized
I am delighted to continue my association with the European Beat Studies Network again this Sunday, as part of their 2021 Zoom conference. I am also delighted to present on the topic of Beat Breath with CPL Board Member, philosopher, professor and Soto Zen Priest...
by Paul Nelson | Oct 22, 2021 | Uncategorized
In this workshop we take the methods and the organismic stance toward poetics (& life) and continue to investigate how to deepen one’s own work and life through spontaneous writing, rituals, honing the intuition, exercising the imagination & discovering the...
by Paul Nelson | Oct 9, 2021 | Uncategorized
Thanks to C.J. Prince and John Green of Haiku Koma Kulshan, I was invited to give a talk about American Sentences on Saturday, October 9, 2021 via Zoom to their Haiku group. I was given some topics to cover and I wrote up a presentation which I will paste in below and...
by Paul Nelson | Oct 6, 2021 | Uncategorized
The second edition of my book of 17 syllable poems, American Sentences, was published in time for my 60th birthday party on September 22, 2021. Saturday, I’ll have a chance to talk about the form, my practice and do a blind critique of some American Sentences...