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PAUL E NELSON

AWP Off-Site Readings

AWP Off-Site Readings

AWP is again having their annual convention in Seattle in 2023 and an expected 10,000 writers are headed here. (Don’t say we didn’t warn you!) The Cascadia Poetics Lab will have a booth at the book fair and I am reading at three off-site events and will...
Reading in Courtenay BC

Reading in Courtenay BC

Thanks to the efforts of Ed Varney, I’ll give a short reading at ARTFUL Gallery in Courtenay, BC on Sunday, August 28th at 7pm. (526C Cumberland Road.) There will be open mic and there is a suggested donation of $10. The number of poetry readings in Cascadia has...

Poetry for Ukraine

I recently participated in a couple of readings dedicated to addressing the Russian war in Ukraine. One event I had a hand in organizing. I was honored to be asked to read for the other. March 15 there was this event Lyn Coffin and Leopoldo Seguel organized it and had...
Poems for Peace

Poems for Peace

Under the auspices of my position as Chair of my spiritual community’s National Cultural Wing, SICA-USA, for 15 months (& two years before that as Secretary) I have been involved in creating programming consistent with the mission of fostering “true...
SICA-USA Poems for Peace

SICA-USA Poems for Peace

Andrew Hall and Adelia MacWilliam are two people helping me curate a series of online readings that were conceived of by SICA, the Subud International Cultural Association. Subud is the spiritual community with which I have been associated since 2004. The Zoomuse...