Cascadian Prophets Podcast
For more than three decades, the Cascadian Prophets Podcast has documented conversations with poets, authors, Indigenous leaders, and other culture workers, creating an extraordinary archive of voices from Cascadia and beyond.
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“Tell Clyfford I Said ‘Hi’”: Exhibition Curated by Children of the Colville Confederated Tribes
Interview with Nicole Cromartie and Katie Wilson-Best of the Clyfford Still Museum on the exhibit...
Joyce Tsai Interview (Director of Clyfford Still Museum)
Interview with Joyce Tsai, Director of the Clyfford Still Museum in Denver. Recorded Thursday,...
In Honor of David McCloskey “The Father of Cascadia”
David McCloskey passed away on July 3, 2026. In honor of his lifetime of work to create and spread...
Lulu Zilinskas on Clyfford Still’s Astrology
I was delighted today to interview Lulu Zilinskas on the astrology of Clyfford Still. An archivist...
Michael Holloman on Clyfford Still in Cascadia
I had the great fortune today to interview Michael Holloman about the Abstract Expressionist...
Phyllis Curott on Witch Crafting
Phyllis Curott is a Wiccan High Priestess, lawyer, author, and spiritual pioneer. This archival...
Interview with Finn Menzies
This interview with Finn Menzies is an archival interview from November, 2017. Finn Menzies is an...
Wang Ping on the Kinship of Rivers
If you were to give the third or fourth longest river in the world a wish, it might simply to run...
Deborah Poe on “flagging the apocalypse pageantry”
How does one make literary art about this time in history that avoids rhetoric and facile...
“Tell Clyfford I Said ‘Hi’”: Exhibition Curated by Children of the Colville Confederated Tribes
Interview with Nicole Cromartie and Katie Wilson-Best of the Clyfford Still Museum on the exhibit...
Joyce Tsai Interview (Director of Clyfford Still Museum)
Interview with Joyce Tsai, Director of the Clyfford Still Museum in Denver. Recorded Thursday,...
In Honor of David McCloskey “The Father of Cascadia”
David McCloskey passed away on July 3, 2026. In honor of his lifetime of work to create and spread...
Cascadian Prophets: Interviews 1999-2023
is the second collection of transcribed interviews taken from the 30 year history of the Cascadia Poetics Lab and conducted by Paul E Nelson, CPL Founder. Interviewees include 7 USAmericans and 7 Canadians, 7 women and 7 men and 7 people who have died and 7 that at the time of publication (February 2, 2024) are still alive. Interviewees:
Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs – Mary Norbert Körte – Robert Bringhurst – Barry McKinnon – Colleen J. McElroy – Brenda Hillman – Daphne Marlatt – Diane di Prima – Miriam Nichols – Stephen Collis- Charles Potts – Robin Blaser – Peter Culley – Sam Hamill
The book is $30 plus shipping and is available online here.
Cascadian Prophets: Interviews 1999-2023
is the second collection of transcribed interviews taken from the 30 year history of the Cascadia Poetics Lab and conducted by Paul E Nelson, CPL Founder. Interviewees include 7 USAmericans and 7 Canadians, 7 women and 7 men and 7 people who have died and 7 that at the time of publication (February 2, 2024) are still alive. Interviewees:
Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs – Mary Norbert Körte – Robert Bringhurst – Barry McKinnon – Colleen J. McElroy – Brenda Hillman – Daphne Marlatt – Diane di Prima – Miriam Nichols – Stephen Collis- Charles Potts – Robin Blaser – Peter Culley – Sam Hamill
The book is $30 plus shipping and is available online here.
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Harry and Cleo Davenport Elser, wedding photo
Diana Elser
“Donation in memory of Harry Elser and Cleo Davenport Elser, two Montana ranch kids. Harry was a meteorologist with the National Weather Service. We learned to enjoy each place we lived – the Missouri River in Great Falls, Montana, the Rio Grande in El Paso, Texas – the Great Salt Lake Basin, and always – Montana.”
Glen and Jessie Dodge
Sally Hedges-Blanquez
“For the memory of Glenn and Jessie Dodge, a World War One Vet and his wife, world-class grandparents and farmers in the town of Gate, Washington.”
Glen Dodge
