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.
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...
Roxi Power Interview
It may have taken 60 years, deaths of her sister and mother and a season of catastrophic forest...
Robert Bringhurst Interview Part 3
The third and final part of my October 22, 2023 interview with Robert Bringhurst is presented here...
Robert Bringhurst The Ridge Interview Part 2
In the second of a three part interview with Quadra Island poet Robert Bringhurst, he discusses...
Robert Bringhurst The Ridge (Interview) Pt. 1
I had the good fortune to travel to Quadra Island for a Saturday, 21, October, 2023 reading of The...
Thom Hartmann on the theft of Human Rights via corporate personhood
In this interview with Thom Hartmann on the theft of human rights via corporate personhood and its...
Jan 2, 2026 Interview with Cornelius Eady on Proof
On January 1, 2026, a 34-year-old, immigrant, Muslim, democratic socialist mayor was sworn in to...
Trevor Carolan on Making Waves: Reading BC and PNW Literature
In this edition of Cascadian Prophets, Trevor Carolan talks about Making Waves. If artists are the...
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
Diana Elser
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Glen and Jessie Dodge
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Glen Dodge
