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PAUL E NELSON

Cascadia Poetry Fest in Anacortes

What great coverage in the Anacortes Arts Briefings newsletter on our May 9-12 festival: Gold Passes admit the holder to all events except Steve Kuusisto’s master workshop “Have Dog, Will Travel: A Poets Journey” will guide poets and prose writers on the...

National Poetry Month

April is National Poetry Month and Carolyne Wright has organized a fine group of local poets to celebrate on April 23rd from 6-8pm at legendary University Books in Seattle: Join us for an epic celebration of verse and rhyme! With a lineup of over 20 local poets,...

One Year After Sam Hamill’s Death

Sam Hamill left this earthly plane on April 14, 2018, and plans are underway to recognize that anniversary in a private and low-key ceremony, along with sushi and saké after, just as Sam would have liked it. Our Cascadia Poetry Festival dedicated to his memory is set...

Zen, Bioregionalism & Poetry

Upcoming poetry events are for people who are interested in the intersection of poetry and Zen and poetry and bioregionalism. April 11, at 7:30pm, the Seattle University Eco-Sangha presents Norman Schaefer, who will read in WYCKOFF AUDITORIUM on the campus of Seattle...

Interview on Spokane Public Radio

I had the good fortune of being interviewed in Spokane on my way to gigs in Billings, Montana. Chris Maccini of Spokane Public Radio did his homework and asked me about American Prophets, my poetry activism and my own work. I read a haibun, 86. Paulownia Tomentosa and...