Cascadian Prophets

Cascadian Prophets


Latest Episodes

Barry McKinnon Interview (from July 2015)
September 01, 2024

Paul: You know, you moved up here and one of the first things you did as a teacher in Prince George - was it UNBC at the time when you moved here the University of Northern British Columbia? Barr

Jerome Rothenberg Interview from 2001
August 01, 2024

Jerome Rothenberg was a legendary poet, translator and anthologist. His work on various poetry anthologies, including Poems for the Millennium were an inspiration for our Cascadian Zen series. He died

Cecil Giscombe Interview
July 01, 2024

Cecil Giscombe talks about his friendship with BC poet, the late Barry McKinnon, about how people in the US consider Canadian poets and about his own work in an interview conducted by Paul E Nelson Ju

Robert Michael Pyle Interview
June 01, 2024

Bob met me at the retro Atomic Motel and we talked for over an hour about his new book, the poems in it, his childhood, bioregionalism, his trip to Cuba, Vladimir Nabokov's notion via biographer Brian

Interview with Bill Porter on the Film “Dancing With the Dead”
April 15, 2024

Paul E Nelson interviews Bill Porter on the film "Dancing With the Dead: Red Pine and the Art of Translation as it screens Sunday, April 21 at SIFF Cinema Egyptian.

Nicholas Gulig Interview
March 28, 2024

The Poet Laureate of Wisconsin Nicholas Gulig discussing the influence legendary poet Lorine Niedecker had on his work, recreating her trip around Lake Superior and discussing the poem's similarity wi

Tessa Hulls Interview Feeding Ghosts
February 27, 2024

Paul E Nelson interviews Tessa Hulls on Feeding Ghosts her graphic memoir

Roxi Power Interview
February 01, 2024

Poet Roxi Power sings from her new book The Songs Objects Would Sing

Robert Bringhurst Interview Part 3
January 02, 2024

In the third and final part of an October 22, 2023 interview Robert Bringhurst, he talks about blister rust, how bioregionalism is an antidote to bad politics and other subjects connected to his 55 pa

Robert Bringhurst The Ridge Interview Part 2
December 19, 2023

Through his books, I took lessons from Ezra Pound, who was a schoolmaster at heart and had a lot of things to say about what young poets should read and how they should read it. His politics were bonk