Paul started doing interviews early in his radio career, in 1980, in Chicago. Since that time he has produced over 500 hours of original radio interviews and is in the process of getting as much audio as possible on-line here as well as on the Listen drop down above.

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American Prophets

Paul Nelson first started conducting interviews in his early radio days, Chicago 1980. In 1990 he was promoted to News & Community Affairs Director of KKNW (106.9 in Seattle) and over the next 14 years created nearly 500 hours of innovative and compelling public affairs radio programs.

Rupert Sheldrake

Building from his early interest in holistic medicine, his interviews soon began to see the holistic approach in all facets of life, as well as the

Allen Ginsberg

inadequacies of the industry-generated culture. In 1994 he interviewed Allen Ginsberg and three years later co-founded the Northwest SPokenword LAB in Auburn, Washington, now know as SPLAB and operating in Seattle’s Columbia City neighborhood.

Anne Waldman

If there was an “A” list of whole-systems luminaries, Paul interviewed many of them and is putting together a manuscript of some of the most fascinating interviews into a project called American Prophets. In 2011, the Occupy movement was born, expressing outrage and indignation at the worst abuses of the military-industrial complex, but Paul was there in 1990, interviewing authors, poets and activists, all of whom had an angle on how things could be and how things were evolving past the notion of human as machine and the competition/domination ethos (or lack thereof.)

Jean Houston

Besides Allen Ginsberg, the archives created by Paul include many interviews archived here.
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