Over the past decade or so, no one has done more for poetry in the Pacific Northwest than has Paul Nelson. He has sponsored and hosted free public readings and workshops while bringing to Seattle notable poets like Wanda Coleman, Nate Mackey, Michael McClure, Brenda Hillman, George Bowering and other leading figures in the world of Organic Poetry. He is as fine an interviewer of poets as anyone working today, coming to each interview thoroughly informed but retaining great flexibility, letting the various threads intertwine. These interviews, combined with lengthy scholarship, have produced a number of remarkable essays and, ultimately, his manuscript American Prophets.
| Title | Interviewee & Link | First Name | Last Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| “The Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People are Changing the World.” | Paul Ray & Sherry Anderson | Sherry | Anderson |
| Voluntary Simplicity - The Circle of Simplicity: Return to the Good Life. | Cecile Andrews | Cecile | Andrews |
| The World is About To Turn: Mending a Nation’s Broken Faith. | Paul O. Ingram | Paul O. | Ingram |
| The Beat Nun of Cascadia, from the Redwoods | Mary Norbert Körte | Mary Norbert | Körte |
| More of The Beat Nun of Cascadia, from the Redwoods | Mary Norbert Körte Part 2 | Mary Norbert | Körte |
| Tether, Float, Spare Room and the Poetry of David Abel | David Abel | David | Abel |
| The Three-Dimensional Latihan Mind of Salamah Lorraine Arden | Salamah Lorraine Arden | Salamah Lorraine | Arden |
| E. Richard Atleo on Tsawalk: a Nuu-chah-nulth Worldview | Richard Atleo | Richard | Atleo |
| Peter Balakian – The Armenian Genocide and America’s Response | Peter Balakian | Peter | Balakian |
| Latin American Neo-Baroque Senses of Distortion with Pablo Baler | Pablo Baler | Pablo | Baler |
| Vince Balestri and Brian Kent on Kerouac: The Essence of Jack, a Jazz Play | Vince Ballestri (with Brian Kent) | Vince | Ballestri |
| Profile of an Anarcho-Leftist, Poet/Librarian, Gentrifier, Greg Bem | Greg Bem | Greg | Bem |
| Peter Berg on Planet Drum and Bioregionalism | Peter Berg | Peter | Berg |
| Poet Robin Blaser's last interview | Robin Blaser | Robin | Blaser |
| Michael Boughn on Poet Jack Clarke’s Life & Legacy | Michael Boughn on Jack Clarke | Michael | Boughn |
| George Bowering’s My Darling Nellie Grey | George Bowering | George | Bowering |
| George Bowering at the Victoria School of Writing Summer School | (Bowering in 2005, my first interview with him) | George | Bowering |
| Sam Hamill, Ian Boyden, Reading, Talk and Interview (Nov 11, 2012) | Sam Hamill with Ian Boyden | Ian | Boyden |
| Ian Boyden on A Forest of Names, 2008 Sichuan Earthquake Poems | Ian Boyden (A Forest of Names) | Ian | Boyden |
| Shahar Bram – The Sentience of Stones | Shahar Bram | Shahar | Bram |
| Darius Brusaferro - Subud Painter, Jazz Fan | Darius Brusaferro | Darius | Brusaferro |
| An Army of Lovers by Juliana Spahr and David Buuck | David Buuck | David | Buuck |
| David Stephen Calonne: Diane di Prima Visionary Poetics, Hidden Religions | David Stephen Calonne on Diane di Prima | David Stephen | Calonne |
| Trev Carolan: Making Waves: Reading BC & Pacific Northwest Literature. | Trev Carolan | Trev | Carolan |
| Beaver Chief – A Salish Perspective on Wellness | Beaver Chief | Beaver | Chief |
| American Poetry Culture & Chinese Culture Xi Chuan | Xi Chuan | Xi | Chuan |
| Wanda Coleman – Writing as Feedback System to Aid Individuation | Wanda Coleman | Wanda | Coleman |
| African-American literary avant garde in the U.S., Wanda Coleman | Wanda Coleman on American Sonnets | Wanda | Coleman |
| Once in Blockadia: Stephen Collis | Stephen Collis | Stephen | Collis |
| Elizabeth Cooperman, Thomas Walton, The Last Mosaic | Elizabeth Cooperman | Elizabeth | Cooperman |
| Peter Culley’s Hammertown | Peter Culley | Peter | Culley |
| Phyllis Curott on Witch Crafting: A Spiritual Guide to Making Magic | Phyllis Curott | Phyllis | Curott |
| Iris Cushing on the First Books of David Henderson & Mary Norbert Körte | Iris Cushing | Iris | Cushing |
| Bhagavan Das – A Suburban Californian’s Quest to India | Bhagavan Das | Bhagavan | Das |
| John de Graaf: USAmerica’s Overworking Epidemic (Take Back Your Time) | John de Graaf | John | de Graaf |
| Sarah de Leeuw Skeena | Sarah De Leeuw | Sarah | de Leeuw |
| Gloria DeGaetano: Source of Teen Violence, Parent Coaches as Catalysts for Social Evolution | Gloria DeGaetano | Gloria | DeGaetano |
| Dominick DellaSala on Temperate and Boreal Rainforests | Dominick DellaSala | Dominick | DellaSala |
| Diane Di Prima – American Poetry and the Beat Movement from a Female Perspective | Diane di Prima | Diane | di Prima |
| Larry Dossey, MD – Non-Local Mind and the New Era in Medicine | Larry Dossey | Larry | Dossey |
| George Draffan – The Global Assault on Forests | George Draffan | George | Draffan |
| Eric Drooker – The Graphic Novel Art Form | Eric Drooker | Eric | Drooker |
| Wayne Dyer on Your Sacred Self | Wayne Dyer | Wayne | Dyer |
| Zhang Er - First Mountain | Zhang Er | Zhang | Er |
| Seattle Bassist and Composer Evan Flory-Barnes | Evan Flory-Barnes | Evan | Flory-Barnes |
| Choral Poetry – Jack and Adelle Foley | Jack and Adelle Foley | Jack and Adelle | Foley |
| Father Matthew Fox – The Reinvention of Work | Father Matthew Fox | Father Matthew | Fox |
| Emily Kendal Frey on Airport and Other Books of Poetry | Emily Kendal Frey | Emily Kendal | Frey |
| Janet Gallant on The Wig Maker (Experimental Lyric Poetry) | Janet Gallant | Janet | Gallant |
| Allen Ginsberg on Cosmopolitan Greetings | Allen Ginsberg | Allen | Ginsberg |
| The Vodou Visions of Sallie Ann Glassman | Sallie Ann Glassman | Sallie Ann | Glassman |
| Sam Hamill, Ian Boyden, Reading, Talk and Interview on Habitations | Sam Hamill with Ian Boyden | Sam | Hamill |
| Why Poetry Matters: 2005 Sam Hamill Interview | Sam Hamill (Poets Against The War) | Sam | Hamill |
| Thom Hartmann: Corporate Personhood (The Theft of Human Rights) | Thom Hartmann | Thom | Hartmann |
| Jeanne Heuving: The Transmutation of Love and Avant-Garde Poetics | Jeanne Heuving | Jeanne | Heuving |
| Jeanne Heuving on Nate Mackey Destination Out | Jeanne Heuving on Nate Mackey Destination Out | Jeanne | Heuving |
| The Poetry Activism of Brenda Hillman (2011 Interview) | Brenda Hillman | Brenda | Hillman |
| Brenda Hillman Interview (Letters on Fire, 2017) | Brenda Hillman (2017) on Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire | Brenda | Hillman |
| Jean Houston – Our Time of Whole System Transition | Jean Houston | Jean | Houston |
| Paul Hunter, Breaking Ground and his own letter press, Wood Works. | Paul Hunter | Paul | Hunter |
| Graham Isaac on Filthy Jerry’s Guide | Graham Isaac | Graham | Isaac |
| Fighting Coal Trains with Totem Poles (Jewell James) | Jewell James | Jewell | James |
| Sam Keen – Learning To Fly (1999 Interview) | Sam Keen | Sam | Keen |
| Yusef Komunyakaa at the Port Townsend Writer’s Conference | Yusef Komunyakaa | Yusef | Komunyakaa |
| Leslie Korn, Ph.D – Integrating Traditional and Modern Medicine | Leslie Korn | Leslie | Korn |
| The Life and Poetry of José Kozer (2015 Interview) | José Kozer | José | Kozer |
| Joanne Kyger Reads Easter & Other Poems | Joanne Kyger | Joanne | Kyger |
| G.P. Lainsbury’s Cascadia Transit | GP Lainsbury | GP | Lainsbury |
| George Lakey on (How We Win) 2019 | George Lakey | George | Lakey |
| Hope’s Edge, The New Diet for a New Planet (Frances Moore Lappé & Anna Lappé) | Frances Moore Lappe & Anna Lappe | Frances Moore & Anna | Lappe |
| Peter Levitt on the Complete Cold Mountain | Peter Levitt | Peter | Levitt |
| Rob Lewis and The Silence of Vanishing Things | Rob Lewis | Rob | Lewis |
| Priscilla Long’s Holy Magic | Priscilla Long | Priscilla | Long |
| El Habib Louai in Cascadia and on Desolation Peak | El Habib Louai | El Habib | Louai |
| Civic Poet, Poet Laureate Claudia Castro-Luna on Seattle’s Poetic Grid | Claudia Castro Luna | Claudia Castro | Luna |
| Lewis MacAdams on Cool & the Post-War American Avant Garde | Lewis MacAdams | Lewis | MacAdams |
| Nate Mackey on. Splay Anthem (2011 Interview) | Nate Mackey Interview | Nate | Mackey |
| Jeanne Heuving on Nate Mackey Destination Out | Jeanne Heuving on Nate Mackey Destination Out | Nate | Mackey |
| Nate Mackey – The Serial Poem (2012 Interview) | https://paulenelson.com/nate-mackey/ | Nate | Mackey |
| Amalio Madueño on Garcia’s Walking Pharmacopoeia Blues | Amalio Madueño | Amalio | Madueño |
| Daphne Marlatt on Liquidities (2014 Interview) | Daphne Marlatt | Daphne | Marlatt |
| Southern Cascadia Culture with Poet Jerry Martien | Jerry Martien | Jerry | Martien |
| How to Not Get Lost Backpacking Like Paul Nelson (Barb Maynes, Dan Pontbriand) | Barb Maynes | Barb | Maynes |
| The Father of Cascadia (David McCloskey) | (Cascadia Institute)David McCloskey (Cascadia Institute) | David | McCloskey |
| Dolphin Skull and the Beat Generation (Michael McClure 1995 interview) | Michael McClure | Michael | McClure |
| Colleen J. McElroy’s Blood Memory | Colleen McElroy | Colleen | McElroy |
| It Can’t Be Said, Barry McKinnon and Northern Cascadia Poetry | Barry McKinnon | Barry | McKinnon |
| Tim McNulty Interview on Olympic National Park Natural History | Tim McNulty | Tim | McNulty |
| Russell Means on Where White Men Fear to Tread | Russell Means | Russell | Means |
| Finn Menzies, Trans in Seattle | Finn Menzies | Finn | Menzies |
| The History of the Decline of Wild Salmon | David Montgomery | David | Montgomery |
| Eileen Myles in Auburn, WA | Eileen Myles | Eileen | Myles |
| Modern Jihad: Tracing the Dollars Behind the Terror Networks | Loretta Napoleoni | Loretta | Napoleoni |
| Miriam Nichols on Robin Blaser, Mechanic of Splendor | Miriam Nichols | Miriam | Nichols |
| How Paul E Nelson got Up A. Creek by Brett Nunn | Brett Nunn | Brett | Nunn |
| James O’Dea (IoNS and the Science of Consciousness) | James O’Dea | James | O’Dea |
| John Olson, Seattle Poet, 1999 Interview | John Olson | John | Olson |
| John Olson’s Broken Justy (2016 Interview) | (John Olson Dec 7, 2016 on In Advance of the Broken Justy) | John | Olson |
| Shin Yu Pai’s Ensō | Shin Yu Pai | Shin Yu | Pai |
| Mississippi – Yangtze Sister Rivers (Wang Ping, Kinship of Rivers) | Wang Ping | Wang | Ping |
| Deborah Poe, Keep | Deborah Poe | Deborah | Poe |
| At Tenzing Momo, They Overcharge Every Third Customer and Pass the Savings on to you | Eric Pollard | Eric | Pollard |
| How to Not Get Lost Backpacking Like Paul Nelson (Barb Maynes, Dan Pontbriand) | Dan Pontbriand | Dan | Pontbriand |
| Bill Porter on Cathay Revisited & Dancing with the Dead, Stonehouse’s Poems for Zen Monks | Bill Porter | Bill | Porter |
| Charles Potts’ Appaloosas and Coyote Highway (For Amalio Madueño) | Charles Potts | Charles | Potts |
| Dan Raphael August 2010 Interview | dan raphael | dan | raphael |
| Make it True Readings Dan Raphael Interview | dan raphael | dan | raphael |
| An Emerging American Subculture – Cultural Creatives | Paul Ray & Sherry Anderson | Paul | Ray |
| Judith Roche All Fire All Water | Judith Roche | Judith | Roche |
| Insanely Concentrated Wealth is Strangling Our Prosperity | Steve Roth | Steve | Roth |
| Jerome Rothenberg Lorca Variations | Jerome Rothenberg | Jerome | Rothenberg |
| Paul O Ingram, Rick Rouse (The World is About To Turn) | Rick Rouse | Rick | Rouse |
| Paul O Ingram, Rick Rouse (The World is About To Turn) | Douglass Rushkoff | Douglass | Rushkoff |
| Rudy Ryser, The Center for World Indigenous Studies | Rudy Ryser | Rudy | Ryser |
| Ed Sanders on the Poetry Legacy of Allen Ginsberg and Investigative Poetics | Ed Sanders | Ed | Sanders |
| Andrew Schelling From the Arapaho Songbook | Andrew Schelling | Andrew | Schelling |
| Tracks Along the Left Coast: Jaime de Angulo & Pacific Coast Culture | Andrew Schelling on Jaime de Angulo | Andrew | Schelling |
| Andrew Schelling Interview (The Facts at Dog Tank Spring) | Andrew Schelling on his book The Facts at Dog Tank Spring | Andrew | Schelling |
| Andrew Schelling From the Arapaho Songbook | Andrew Schelling on his book From the Arapaho Songbook | Andrew | Schelling |
| Two Countries (Interview with Tina Schumann) | Tina Schumann | Tina | Schumann |
| Cheryl Seidner & the Wiyot Tribe in Eureka, CA | Cheryl Seidner (Wiyot Tribe) | Cheryl | Seidner |
| Rupert Sheldrake on The Scientific Basis for Understanding Animal Telepathy | Rupert Sheldrake | Rupert | Sheldrake |
| Internationally-known Mime and Subud Member, Richmond Shepard | Richmond Shepard | Richmond | Shepard |
| Cedar Sigo Stranger In Town (2011 Interview) | Cedar Sigo | Cedar | Sigo |
| Laura Simms – Story-Telling as a Healing Modality | Laura Simms | Laura | Simms |
| Willie Smith, Nothing Doing, | Willie Smith | Willie | Smith |
| An Army of Lovers by Juliana Spahr and David Buuck | Juliana Spahr | Juliana | Spahr |
| (Indigenous) Cascadian Zen, Wedlidi Speck | Wedlidi Speck | Wedlidi | Speck |
| other SPLAB audio, here | other SPLAB audio, here. | SPLAB | |
| Portland Poet Marilyn Stablein (2015 Interview) | Marilyn Stablein | Marilyn | Stablein |
| George Stanley After Desire | George Stanley | George | Stanley |
| The Wig Maker as told to Sharon Thesen | Jerry Wennstrom and Marilyn Strong | Marilyn | Strong |
| The Wig Maker as told to Sharon Thesen | Sharon Thesen | Sharon | Thesen |
| The Life Forces with Solihin & Alicia Thom | Solihin and Alicia Thom | Solihin and Alicia | Thom |
| Vancouver Island Poet Ed Varney | Ed Varney | Ed | Varney |
| Anne Waldman – Vow to Poetry (2002 Interview) | Anne Waldman | Anne | Waldman |
| Elizabeth Cooperman, Thomas Walton, The Last Mosaic | Thomas Walton | Thomas | Walton |
| Jerry Wennstrom & Marilyn Strong – The Union of Opposites: Alchemical Imagery as a Tool | Jerry Wennstrom and Marilyn Strong | Jerry | Wennstrom |
| Gary Snyder, Dōgen, Jason Wirth & Our Ecological Crisis | Jason Wirth | Jason | Wirth |
| Buddhism in Rainier Beach, Interview with Jason Wirth | Jason Wirth on the Buddhist history of Rainier Beach (December 10, 2019) | Jason | Wirth |
| Unceded Territories, Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun Interview | Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun | Lawrence Paul | Yuxweluptun |