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Cascadia Poetry Festival 8 Paul E Nelson at the microphone

Paul E Nelson presenting at Cascadia Poetry Festival 8, photo by Leszek Chudzinski

Over the past decade or so, no one has done more for poetry in the Pacific Northwest than has Paul Nelson.– Sam Hamill

Robert Bringhurst at Seattle U, Nov 15

Robert Bringhurst will be talking at Seattle University on Friday, November 15, 2024, in Sinegal 100/110 at 4pm. Robert has been part of at least two Cascadia Poetry Festivals, 2015 in Nanaimo and...

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The Nature of Zen: An Ecology of Being

The Nature of Zen: An Ecology of Being

From Ray Grigg: I thought I'd let you know that my latest book, The Nature of Zen: An Ecology of Being is now available from Xlibris for $20.99 and from Amazon for...  $28.95. An eBook edition is...

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Happy 92nd Michael McClure

Happy 92nd Michael McClure

Michael McClure would have turned 92 Sunday, October 20, 2024. His book: Touching the Edge: Dharma Devotions from the Hummingbird Sangha may be the best Zen poetry written in English. It has...

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Paul Reads at Jack Straw Oct 21 7pm

Paul Reads at Jack Straw Oct 21 7pm

I'm delighted to have been invited to read as part of the Jack Straw Writers Program reading Monday, October 21, 2024 at 7pm. Other poets include John Burgess, Bill Carty, Denise Michaels, Susan...

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DaySong of Thoughtless Openness

I am still floating from my recent visit to British Columbia, which I took for a series of events centered around Cascadian Zen Volume I. Events at the Mountain Rain Zen Center in Vancouver, the...

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Poet of Place (Joanne Kyger)

Poet of Place (Joanne Kyger)

Today we present the video version of the interview I conducted with Jane Falk and Mary Paniccia Carden on the book Poet in Place and Time: Critical Essays on Joanne Kyger. Kyger is one of the most...

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Winter in America (Again

Winter in America (Again

Katie Sarah Zale writes: "In 2003, 11,000 poets responded to Sam Hamill’s request for a poem about George W. Bush’s planned attack of Iraq. In the resulting anthology titled Poets Against the War,...

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Frank Abe and Paul E Nelson

An interview with Frank Abe, co-editor of the new anthology The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration, conducted September 20, 2024 by Paul E Nelson

Frank Abe on the Literature of Japanese-American Incarceration

by Paul E Nelson