The second half of our July 4, 2023 interview with Steven Thomas, former Seattle poet, co-founder of the Seattle Poetry Festival and former teacher at University Prep. He discussed his life, struggles

Stephen Thomas 7.1.2023Before moving to Europe, Auburn, Washington native Stephen Thomas was quite active in the Seattle literary scene. He came back to Seattle (& other parts of the U.S.) to read from his new book What Is Between Us published by Hand to

Gabriella Gutirrez y Muhs w/ Paul E NelsonWhat a joy to engage Gabriella Gutirrez y Muhs for a Cascadian Prophets podcast interview. I hosted her at Casa del Colibr on June 15, 2023 and discussed h

The latest Cascadian Prophets podcast is an interview with Ann Batchelor Hursey, author of Field Notes: To Maya Lins Confluence Project Landscapes, and Lou Cabeen, the artist responsible for the Fiel

The International Peace Research Association gathered May 17-21, 2023, in Port of Spain, Trinidad for their 2023 conference. I attended and was in the company of some of the world's most brilliant sc

Carletta Carrington Wilson discusses Poem of Stone & Bone in honor of James W. Washington Jr.

It is a collaboration thats a book, but not a book that youd bring to bed with you before turning the lights out. Its also been described as protest beauty and is the collaboration of a printer (

CPL Board Member Jason Wirth has arranged for Dr. E. Richard Atleo to speak at Seattle U. This is a remarkable opportunity to hear about Nuu-Chal-Nuth cosmology. Details below. I had the good fortune to interview Dr. Atleo in 2005 and included the transcr

What a blessing it was December 28, 2022, to interview Shuri Kido, the accomplished Japanese poet and Zen practitioner. As I told he and his translators (Tomoyuki Endo, Forrest Gander) on that occasio

Brenda Hillman interviewed on her 2022 book In A Few Minutes Before Later by Paul E Nelson for the Cascadian Prophets podcast