Cascadian Blogging (The Raven) Patrick Mazza Interview
Patrick Mazza’s blog, The Raven, exists: “To inform the people-power movements crucial to addressing the crises
coming upon us at national and global levels, from increasing national divisions and breakdown of institutions, to the climate crisis.”
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Pierre Joris Interview (Canto Diurno #1)
Interview with Pierre Joris recorded May 2, 2022 by Paul E Nelson for the Cascadian Prophets podcast.
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Hoa Nguyen Interview (A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure)
We caught up via Zoom with Hoa Nguyen on April 14, 2022 for an interview. Not everyone can say...
John Brehm (The Dharma of Poetry) Interview
Interview with John Brehm, author of The Dharma of Poetry. Recorded by Paul E Nelson for Cascadian Prophets podcast on February 24, 2022 in John’s Portland, OR home.
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Barbara Johns on Kenjiro Nomura
The paintings of Kenjiro Nomura are featured at the Cascadia Art Museum in Edmonds, Washington and a new book by art historian Barbara Johns, Kenjiro Nomura, American Modernist: An Issei Artist’s Journey, is the topic of discussion.
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Fred Wah Interview (The Simple, MHT)
BC poet Fred Wah talks about his lecture The Simple, as well as the concept of serial poetry and his Music at the Heart of Thinking.
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James Rasmussen on Duwamish Tribe Recognition
James Rasmussen is a Duwamish Tribal member and Superfund Manager for the Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition. he talked with Paul E Nelson about his Duwamish heritage, about the effort to gain federal recognition of the Duwamish Tribe, the entities that are fighting that recognition, the land recognition announcements that have become common and the Real Rent Duwamish campaign.
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Paul E Nelson Interviewed by Greg Bem 9.26.2021
Greg Bem interviews Seattle poet/interviewer Paul E Nelson 4 days after his 60th birthday about his poetry and his work with the Cascadia Poetics LAB (the former SPLAB.)
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Carletta Carrington Wilson Interview from 2011
A 2011 interview with Seattle poet and fiber artist Carletta Carrington Wilson conducted by Paul E Nelson. They talked about Wilson’s poetry, filled with Garcia Lorca’s notion of duende, what first drew her to poetry (or how poetry called her in elementary school) about how her work reflects her study of slavery and some of her own work which haunts her and which comes from the voice of a person who was enslaved. She calls it the “history of the disappeared.”
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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...
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...
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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