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:
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Harry and Cleo Davenport Elser, wedding photo
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
Glen Dodge
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.
Carletta Carrington Wilson discusses Poem of Stone & Bone in honor of James W. Washington Jr.
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It is a collaboration that’s a book, but not a book that you’d bring to bed with you before turning the lights out....
With the assistance of the Center for World Indigenous Studies, I had the good fortune to interview E. Richard Atleo...
What a blessing it was December 28, 2022, to interview Shuri Kido, the...
Brenda Hillman interviewed on her 2022 book In A Few Minutes Before Later by Paul E Nelson for the Cascadian Prophets podcast
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Our latest Cascadian Prophets podcast guest is Wendy Call. She is translator of Isthmus Zapotec poet Irma Pineda. The...
When I visited Mary Norbert Körte in October of 2019, we recorded interviews on consecutive days. On the second day we...
Interview part 1 from Oct 2019 with Mary Norbert Körte at her home in Irmulco, CA.
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The latest Cascadian Prophets podcast is about Cascadian Zen from the three co-editors of the book, Tetsuzen Jason...
Cascadian Prophets interview. Why are only 8% of Hollywood movies produced by women, down from 9% 20 years ago? One Hollywood film-maker says the “male gaze” reinforced by a camera angle formula and a subject-object dynamic creates an industry rife with employment discrimination and sexual abuse and assault. That film-maker is Nina Menkes, the Producer and Director of Brainwashed: Sex Camera Power. The movie is showing now in select theaters and it is both disturbing and compelling, as well as uplifting.
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Pierre Joris talks to Paul E Nelson on A Nomad Poetics and reads the poem Letter to Steichen, Ed
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“I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.” A quote attributed to John Quincy...
How to capture the soul of a subject, live your life dedicated to your own art, the process of discovery and even plan...
I had the good fortune on Sunday, July 17, 2022 to travel to the home of Michael Daley, on Fidalgo Island, to chat...
Interview with Claudia Castro Luna, recorded 17-JUNE-2022 via Zoom about her new book Cipota Under the Moon published by Tia Chucha Press.
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