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PAUL E NELSON

Paul Reads at Jackson St. Jazzwalk

Jackson Street was once the epicenter of Jazz in Seattle. Not sure there is one anymore, but you can hear live Jazz in town at places like Tula’s, Jazz Alley, the Royal Room and other venues. On April 1, 2017, my long-time collaborator and world-class flute...

Annual Bradner Gardens Reading

I get to read Saturday with the Jim O’Halloran Quintet at Bradner Gardens, which is always a gas. The band is amazing and Jim always takes time to work out an intelligent plan to accompany my work. Bradner Gardens is one of the jewels of Seattle’s P-Patch...

American Sentences in PDX

It will be my first reading in Portland in over ten years. Can’t remember the exact time and place of the last reading and it happens Friday, June 3 @7pm at Another Read Through in Portland, Oregon. I’ll be reading with Jim O’Halloran, the...

Reading/Career Counseling Event

Never thought I’d write THAT blog post title, but there you go. And it’s another opportunity for you to BUY A COPY of American Sentences and hear how one remarkable flute player interprets various sentences into the universal language. (No not Esperanto!)...

Hallelujah, the Poetics of Music

(For Columbia City Gallery Literary Series, Dec 13, 2015) “We study the self to lose the self. Only when you forget yourself can you become one with all things.” – Dögen Some brief thoughts about my immediate take on the subject for which we are ostensibly...