Interview with Stephen Thomas, Part 1
Before moving to Europe, Auburn, Washington native Stephen Thomas was quite active in the Seattle...
Interview with Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs
What a joy to engage Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs for a Cascadian Prophets podcast interview. I...
The Columbia River Confluence Project
The latest Cascadian Prophets podcast is an interview with Ann Batchelor Hursey, author of Field...
IPRA – Making Peace in Trinidad
The International Peace Research Association gathered May 17-21, 2023, in Port of Spain, Trinidad...
Rescue and Revival of a Seattle Legend: Carletta Carrington Wilson Interprets James Washington Jr.
Carletta Carrington Wilson discusses Poem of Stone & Bone in honor of James W. Washington Jr.
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Heavy Lifting Art Book (Feilcia Rice, Theresa Whitehill)
It is a collaboration that’s a book, but not a book that you’d bring to bed with you before...
E. Richard Atleo in Seattle & a 2005 Interview
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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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
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Andrew Schelling on Forests, Temples, Glacial Rivers
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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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