Poetry Exchange featuring Nick Butterfield!
Sunday, March 17th 1:00-3:00 p.m.
via Zoom
Poetry Exchange featuring Nick Butterfield!
Sunday, March 17th
1:00-3:00 p.m. (PDT)
Hosted by Brandon Luu!
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Nick AKA Nektarios Butterfield has 5 cats now. One died recently. He was 15 years old, a rescue kitten found on a street in Oakland. “Grief is the source of many of my writings.” “PTSD, I saw in my dad and many of my current writing collaborators. Not just veterans of war but of life.” Nick was one of the few who gathered in Willow Glen Bookstore in the mid-90s. The Willow Glen Poetry Project went on to publish 3 anthologies in which Nektarios participated in. He has contributed to 3 Caesura editions in the past and contributed to Veterans of Life Write book that came out in 2020. He co-facilitates Veterans of Life Zoom meetings the first Friday of every month which is sponsored by the Psychology Dept. at SJSU and Martin Luther King Library. The group has participated in 7 San Jose Poetry Festivals and has been meeting regularly since 2015. A group that started with Amy Meier’s recognition of a need for Veterans to write and heal.