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.
Lorna Dee Cervantes Interview (April on Olympia)
When I wrote about heart / I imagined a muscle of infinite distance writes Lorna Dee Cervantes in...
John Tanner on Richard Brautigan
What a joy it has been to meet a Richard Brautigan scholar John Tanner in Brussels, hear him...
Stephen Thomas Interview Part 2
We present the second half of our July 4, 2023 interview with former Seattle poet Stephen Thomas....
Interview with Stephen Thomas, Part 1
Before moving to Europe, Auburn, Washington native Stephen Thomas was quite active in the Seattle...
Interview with Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs
What a joy to engage Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs for a Cascadian Prophets podcast interview. I...
The Columbia River Confluence Project
The latest Cascadian Prophets podcast is an interview with Ann Batchelor Hursey, author of Field...
IPRA – Making Peace in Trinidad
The International Peace Research Association gathered May 17-21, 2023, in Port of Spain, Trinidad...
Rescue and Revival of a Seattle Legend: Carletta Carrington Wilson Interprets James Washington Jr.
“Rescue and Revival of a Seattle Legend: Carletta Carrington Wilson Interprets James Washington...
Heavy Lifting Art Book (Feilcia Rice, Theresa Whitehill)
It is a collaboration that’s a book, but not a book that you’d bring to bed with you before...
Gary Copeland Lilley on Raven on the Moaners’ Bench
"The first pew in the old time Black church is the Moaners' bench." - Gary Copeland Lilley...
Tess Gallagher on Surrounded by Weasels and Josie Gray
To preserve a bit of one's art is a true act of love, even if the book of stories that comes out...
In Memory of Jack Foley
This interview is brought to you in memory of Jack Foley, who passed away earlier this month at...
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
“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
