PORT TOWNSEND — The Northwind Reading Series will feature Andrew Schelling and Paul Nelson at 7 p.m. Thursday.
The reading will be at the Northwind Arts Center, 701 Water St.
Northwind readings are free, though donations of $5 are accepted to support Northwind Arts Center, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.
Schelling is a poet, anthologist and essay writer. He has translated seven collections of ancient poetry from Sanskrit and related vernaculars, two of which are being released in India this year.
His recent book, “Tracks Along the Left Coast: Jaime de Angulo and Pacific Coast Culture,” is a folkloric account of Western wilderness encounters, linguistics, poetry, medicine power and creation tales.
Schelling teaches at Naropa University in Boulder, Colo., and at Deer Park Institute in the Himalayan foothills.
Poet/interviewer Nelson founded SPLAB (Seattle Poetics LAB) and Cascadia Poetry Festival, wrote “American Sentences” (2015), “A Time Before Slaughter” (2010) and other books.
His 2015 interview with José Kozer was published in 2016 as “Tiovivo Tres Amigos.”
He has also interviewed Allen Ginsberg, Michael McClure, Joanne Kyger, Robin Blaser, Anne Waldman, Ed Sanders, Diane di Prima, Nate Mackey, George Bowering and Brenda Hillman. He is engaged in a 20-year bioregional cultural investigation of Cascadia, including the festival, interviews with Cascadia poets, indigenous elders, and activists, and the anthology “Make It True: Poetry From Cascadia.”
Nelson is co-editor of that anthology as well as “56 Days of August,” the poetry postcard anthology, and writes an American Sentence daily. For more information, call Bill Mawhinney 360-302-1159.
