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PAUL E NELSON

Six Postcards

Bhakti and I got back from an overnight sojourn to THE MULTIVERSE on San Juan Island yesterday. We went to the community/arts spot Ian, Jennifer and Gavia Boyden have created to showcase art and were delighted to be serenaded by original keyboard music while watching...

Kozer on Seriality

In the car we listen to music almost exclusively on the old Ipod, which has remnants of the previous user’s musical tastes. (Thanks Rebecca!) Were it to be passed down again, and were the new owner to leave traces of MY audio excursions, there will be a great...

Annual Bradner Gardens Concert

On August 18, 2018, from 6:30 to 8:30pm, I will again participate in what is becoming like a ritual for me, reading poems with Jim O’Halloran’s band at perhaps the best community garden in the city, Bradner Gardens. Jim sent this: Outdoors, on the lawn!...

Elegy for Tahlequah’s Calf

A recent poem of mine was published in Cascadia Magazine. It is dedicated to the “Father of Cascadia” who suggested someone write a poem about this tragic incident. Thank you David McCloskey and Andrew Engelson.