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Paul @ Bradner Gardens with Jim O’Halloran

Paul @ Bradner Gardens with Jim O’Halloran

Jim O’Halloran, the flute player and Subud brother with whom I have collaborated for at least sixteen years, wrote this yesterday: I’m delighted to be returning to  Bradner Gardens Park again this year on Saturday, August 9th 6:30-8:30 PM.   The address is 1730...
Aug 9 Zoom Poetry Workshop

Aug 9 Zoom Poetry Workshop

Along with three of the editors of Winter in America (Again, I’ll be facilitating a workshop for the Arizona State Poetry Society on August 9 at 12N MST and PDT. (Confusing, I know. 12PDT.) I am delighted to be presenting material from the anthology with Katie...
Meet Mayoral Candidate Katie Wilson

Meet Mayoral Candidate Katie Wilson

On Wednesday, July 23 at 6:30 Seattle Mayoral candidate Katie Wilson will discuss quality of life and culture in Rainier Beach with an emphasis on efforts to create affordable housing for artists and culture workers. If you are not familiar with Katie Wilson, you can...
Winter in America (Again Monday, July 21 via Zoom

Winter in America (Again Monday, July 21 via Zoom

From Bill O’Daly: Dear Friends and Family, A reading based on Winter in America (Again, an anthology developed in response to the 2024 election by poets Katie Sarah Zale, president of the Arizona State Poetry Society, and Paul E. Nelson, founding director of the...
Resistance as Writing

Resistance as Writing

How can one write poetry about current political events without resorting to invective or rhetoric? Why is this important? Poetry is a use of language that is capable of a kind of depth of being that rhetoric is not. Rhetoric is opinion, which is centered in the human...