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.
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...
Frank Abe on The Literature of Japanese-American Incarceration
“A few months after the entry of the United States into World War II, the Government of the United...
Barry McKinnon Interview (from July 2015)
Barry McKinnon died in Prince George, BC, on October 30, 2023. Your humble narrator drove to...
Jerome Rothenberg Interview from 2001
Jerome Rothenberg was a legendary poet, translator and anthologist. His work on various poetry...
Cecil Giscombe Interview
Attending a memorial always has its share of grief. Some memorials more than others. The life of...
Robert Michael Pyle Interview
Your humble narrator traveled to Astoria, Oregon to hear the launch of The Last Man in Willapa,...
Interview with Bill Porter on the Film “Dancing With the Dead”
Here (below) is the audio version of my March 25, 2024 interview with Bill Porter on "Dancing With...
Nicholas Gulig Interview
Imagine growing up a poet in a state like Wisconsin and having to travel to Colorado to learn...
Tessa Hulls Interview Feeding Ghosts
Tessa Hulls and I met when she donated a poster for the 2013 edition of the Allen Ginsberg Open...
Interview with Mary Norbert Körte
Open the anthology Women of the Beat Generation to page 256 and read the words of Brother...
Lorin Medley On the Way to Kluusms
On the Way to Kluusms is the first poetry chapbook to be published by Watershed Press, a...
Ian Boyden and Sam Hamill on Habitations
On November 10, 2012, Sam Hamill and Ian Boyden joined together to do an interview on Hamill's...
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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Harry and Cleo Davenport Elser, wedding photo
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Glen and Jessie Dodge
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Glen Dodge
