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With the assistance of the Center for World Indigenous Studies, I had the good fortune to...
Shuri Kido Interview on Names And Rivers
What a blessing it was December 28, 2022, to interview...
Brenda Hillman Interview In A Few Minutes Before Later
Brenda Hillman interviewed on her 2022 book In A Few Minutes Before Later by Paul E Nelson for the Cascadian Prophets podcast
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On Irma Pineda (Isthmus Zapotec) by Wendy Call (Translator)
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Mary Norbert Körte Interview Part 2
When I visited Mary Norbert Körte in October of 2019, we recorded interviews on consecutive days....
Mary Norbert Körte Interview October 2019
Interview part 1 from Oct 2019 with Mary Norbert Körte at her home in Irmulco, CA.
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Cascadian Zen Anthology
The latest Cascadian Prophets podcast is about Cascadian Zen from the three co-editors of the...
Interview with Brainwashed Director Nina Menkes
Cascadian Prophets interview. Why are only 8% of Hollywood movies produced by women, down from 9% 20 years ago? One Hollywood film-maker says the “male gaze” reinforced by a camera angle formula and a subject-object dynamic creates an industry rife with employment discrimination and sexual abuse and assault. That film-maker is Nina Menkes, the Producer and Director of Brainwashed: Sex Camera Power. The movie is showing now in select theaters and it is both disturbing and compelling, as well as uplifting.
Podcast (prophets-podcast): Play in new window | Download (Duration: 34:12 — )
Pierre Joris on A Nomad Poetics
Pierre Joris talks to Paul E Nelson on A Nomad Poetics and reads the poem Letter to Steichen, Ed
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Wanda Coleman on American Sonnets
Wanda Coleman, born in Los Angeles, was an award-winning poet, author, and former...
Interview with Jane Falk and Mary Paniccia Carden on the book Joanne Kyger: A Poet in Place and Time
"The Beat Generation is one of the most formidable literary movements of the mid-to late-twentieth...
Dr. Rudy Rÿser on the Center for World Indigenous Studies
Dr. Rudolph Rÿser was the founder and board chair emeritus of the Center for World...

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
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