Featuring Seth Copeland, poet & Paul Westfahl, Indian Drums.

Seth Copeland graduated high school with eighteen other people in a small southwest town of Indiahoma, Oklahoma. His work has appeared in Drunk Monkeys, Kestrel, Dream Pop, Heavy Feather Review, and Yes Poetry, among others. He is the founder of the text/image archive petrichor and is currently dissertating at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Paul Westfahl is an active performer and educator in Southeast Wisconsin. He earned his BA in Music from the University of Wisconsin-Parkside in 2012 with an emphasis in Percussion Performance, Composition and Jazz Studies and he currently holds the position of Percussion Director at The Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE). Paul is a frequent collaborator with dancers from UW-Milwaukee, Danceworks and The Young Dance Academy and keeps a busy performance schedule with a myriad of groups including the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, The Milwaukee Children’s Choir, and First Stage to name a few. In addition to working with students and maintaining a demanding freelance performing schedule, Westfahl leads and composes for several of his own projects and is also involved as a sideman and co-conspirator/performer/composer with many new music ensembles in the Milwaukee area. Since 2015, Paul has dedicated himself to studying tabla along with South Indian rhythm and is a disciple of Pandit Hindole Majumdar.