Jerome Rothenberg Interview from 2001
Jerome Rothenberg was a legendary poet, translator and anthologist. His work on various poetry anthologies, including Poems for the Millennium were an inspiration for our Cascadian Zen series. He died on April 21, 2024 and we’re presenting this archive audio of the interview conducted in November 2001 as our latest Cascadian Prophets podcast. R.I.P. Jerome! Our introduction from 2001.
Podcast (prophets-podcast): Play in new window | Download (Duration: 47:05 — 64.7MB)
Cecil Giscombe Interview
Cecil Giscombe talks about his friendship with BC poet, the late Barry McKinnon, about how people in the US consider Canadian poets and about his own work in an interview conducted by Paul E Nelson June 23, 2024 in Prince George, BC.
Podcast (prophets-podcast): Play in new window | Download (Duration: 39:08 — 53.8MB)
Robert Michael Pyle Interview
Bob met me at the retro Atomic Motel and we talked for over an hour about his new book, the poems in it, his childhood, bioregionalism, his trip to Cuba, Vladimir Nabokov’s notion via biographer Brian Boyd of “attending to the individuating detail” of one’s life (an upgrade from the same notion I’ve gotten from Blake and Pound) and his general “thing” “close attention to the natural world.” It’s the June 2024 Cascadian Prophets podcast:
Podcast (prophets-podcast): Play in new window | Download ()
Interview with Bill Porter on the Film “Dancing With the Dead”
Paul E Nelson interviews Bill Porter on the film “Dancing With the Dead: Red Pine and the Art of Translation as it screens Sunday, April 21 at SIFF Cinema Egyptian.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 25:47 — 35.4MB)
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS | More
Podcast (prophets-podcast): Play in new window | Download (Duration: 25:47 — 35.4MB)
Nicholas Gulig Interview
The Poet Laureate of Wisconsin Nicholas Gulig discussing the influence legendary poet Lorine Niedecker had on his work, recreating her trip around Lake Superior and discussing the poem’s similarity with an altar.
Podcast (prophets-podcast): Play in new window | Download (Duration: 48:14 — 66.3MB)
Tessa Hulls Interview Feeding Ghosts
Paul E Nelson interviews Tessa Hulls on Feeding Ghosts her graphic memoir
Podcast: Play in new window | Download ()
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS | More
Podcast (prophets-podcast): Play in new window | Download (Duration: 42:26 — 58.3MB)
Roxi Power Interview
Poet Roxi Power sings from her new book The Songs Objects Would Sing
Podcast (prophets-podcast): Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:02:19 — 85.6MB)
Robert Bringhurst Interview Part 3
In the third and final part of an October 22, 2023 interview Robert Bringhurst, he talks about blister rust, how bioregionalism is an antidote to bad politics and other subjects connected to his 55 page poem The Ridge,
Podcast (prophets-podcast): Play in new window | Download (Duration: 26:15 — 36.1MB)
Robert Bringhurst The Ridge Interview Part 2
Through his books, I took lessons from Ezra Pound, who was a schoolmaster at heart and had a lot of things to say about what young poets should read and how they should read it. His politics were bonkers, but his ear was a good ear. I learned a lot from him and from others. But it dawned on me one day that my literary schooling had a gaping hole in the center. Except as a colonial construction, the land I was born in – the whole continent and hemisphere I was born in – was missing from this otherwise detailed map of the literary world. It was as if there were no Native American culture, no Native American literature – and I knew this to be false,
Podcast (prophets-podcast): Play in new window | Download (Duration: 26:28 — 36.3MB)
In Memory of Jack Foley
This interview is brought to you in memory of Jack Foley, who passed away earlier this month at...
Vodou Visions with Sallie Ann Glassman
In this interview on her book Vodou Visions with Sallie Ann Glassman, she discusses becoming a...
Linda Russo on the verdant
or or As the planet heats up many animal species are either headed north or going extinct. This...
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.
Thank You to Our
Cascadian Prophets Podcast Sponsors
For believing in us and making this podcast happen.
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
