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.
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...
Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun Lets’lo:tseltun on Unceded Territories
This interview with Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun Lets’lo:tseltun was originally recorded in August of...
George Draffan on the Global Assault on Forests
George Draffan is a researcher, the head of the Public Information Network and the co-author...
Interview with Harold Rhenisch on The Salmon Shanties: A Cascadian Song Cycle
We caught up with Harold Rhenisch at what seemed like a good halfway point between Seattle, WA and...
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...
Deborah Poe on “flagging the apocalypse pageantry”
How does one make literary art about this time in history that avoids rhetoric and facile...
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...
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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