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.
Podcast sponsorship helps keep these conversations freely available and supports the creation of new episodes.
Peter Levitt on Translating Cold Mountain
Arthur Waley, Gary Snyder, Burton Watson and Red Pine are among the legendary translators who have...
Writing Resistance: Winter in America (Again Contributors
The outrages, for any person of conscience in the United States in the trump 2.0 era, almost come...
Matt Trease Interview (The Outside)
It was Matt Trease who turned my attention to an interview that Eileen Myles gave in 2015 in which...
Sam O’Hana on How to Support Working Class Poets
Allen Ginsberg earned $701 dollars in 1956 from Pacific Greyhound Lines and yet he had plenty of...
Rhea Miller on Cloudhand, Clenched Fist
To go back 30 years in one's writing is an exercise fraught with the possibility that the material...
Interview with Paul Nelson on the Poetry Postcard Fest
If you were to visit cascadiapoeticslab.org and click to the Poetry Postcard Fest page, you’d find...
Anne Tardos on Cascadian Prophets
I am grateful today to bring you an interview with Anne Tardos on Cascadian Prophets, reading from...
An interview with Jewell James
On 28 August, 2014, your humble narrator had the honor of conducting an interview with Jewell...
Andrew Schelling on Forests, Temples, Glacial Rivers
It is said of the poetry of Andrew Schelling that he is “locating language in watersheds and...
Zhang Er on First Mountain
Sam Hamill wrote in his final book blurb: “Zhang Er brings us startling 'burial ground poems' from...
Aldon Nielsen on Choruses for Gil Scott-Heron
Aldon Lynn Nielsen says the time is right to say it straight, Gil Scott-Heron should be recognized...
Interview with Mary Norbert Körte
Open the anthology Women of the Beat Generation to page 256 and read the words of Brother...
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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Glen and Jessie Dodge
Sally Hedges-Blanquez
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Glen Dodge
