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PAUL E NELSON

Bill Mawhinney Bids Adieu to Northwind

I had the good fortune to read AT LEAST three times during Bill Mawhinney’s tenure as producer of the monthly Northwind Poetry series in Port Townsend over the last 13 years. That he came out of the New American Poetry, and was knowledgeable about poets like...

Judith Roche, Rest in Power

I was saddened to hear the news via Facebook that Judith Roche died at her home in Seattle’s Leschi neighborhood tonight. (Thursday, November 14, 2019). I had a chance to visit her last week and she was not able to speak after having several strokes. I attempted...

Reading in Ukiah

I will be heading to extreme Southern Cascadia Thursday, and go out of the bioregion to read in Ukiah, California. I am headed south to meet and interview Mary Norbert Körte, a poet, and former Catholic nun who had a spiritual epiphany attending the 1965 Berkeley...