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

The Ridge is a poem in 20 parts, a meditation on a geological feature of Quadra Island, a large island in British Columbia, just north of the Strait of Georgia, and thus the Salish Sea. But the poem i

Lorna Dee Cervantes Interview on April on Olympia

John Tanner on Richard Brautigan and How To Make an America

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.