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PAUL E NELSON

Postcard Poems as Peace Process

“There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.”                                                        – M. Scott Peck (pdf) It was the summer...

42 Days of August

2013 Postcard Afterword 2013 was the 7th year of the August POetry POstcard Fest overall and the 2nd year that Brendan McBreen would be in charge of organizing and distributing the list. A call went out on June 22 and I did not respond right away and found myself at...

Talk at North Cascades Institute

El Habib Louai concludes his tour of Cascadia on Thursday, August 15, 2013, at 7p as he talks to participants in this year’s Beats on the Peaks event, produced by the North Cascades Institute. Habib will speak about the Beat connection with Morocco and the...

Ghost Tantra Video

The Four Hoarse Men were down a hoarse at the last Ginsberg Marathon, June 1, 2013, at the Spring Street Center, but we did have Jaci Conger taping and here’s some of the wreckage of our versions of some of Michael McClure’s Ghost Tantras. He called them...