Paul E Nelson presenting at Cascadia Poetry Festival 8, photo by Leszek Chudzinski
Paul Nelson’s ongoing honing of the Day Song poetry event has produced some of the most lively and consequential verse of our time. How else write about the calamities and demands and mental/emotional/political consequences of the materialist apocalypse upon us, than an ongoing poesis of awareness and participation the anti-form the Day Song provides? Truly a praxis of proprioception and of Olson’s demand to “keep it moving…
– Sharon Thesen, Cascadian Poet/Scholar from B.C.
Sam Hamill, Ian Boyden, Reading, Talk and Interview (Nov 11, 2012)
It’s one of those moments that you remember forever. Sam Hamill wanted to show me something in his home that he knew I would appreciate. He carefully lifted up an object about three feet high and 10...
Poems from Planet Earth
Poet – Sam Hamill, Painter – Ian Boyden
I will never forget the moment when Sam Hamill showed me the book Ian Boyden made of his new poem "Habitations" a couple of years ago. It was about a yard high and the cover was made from what...
The Four Hoarse Men at the Frye Art Museum
The Four Hoarse Men participated in an evening of Sound Poetry, curated by Doug Nufer and Jason Conger last night (Nov 1, 2012) at the Frye Art Museum. Details are at the Four Hoarse blog.
Interview and Audio of Poet/Activist Brenda Hillman
Paul Nelson facilitated the visit of renowned poet and activist Brenda Hillman to SPLAB in November 2011, as part of the Visiting Poets Series. The whole interview is here. Hear a clip from the...
Diane Di Prima – American Poetry and the Beat Movement from a Female Perspective
Diane Di Prima - American Poetry and the Beat Movement from a Female Perspective Diane Di Prima is perhaps the most well-known female poet of the Beat Literary movement. She discussed how she...
Nate Mackey Interview, Part 6
In the final segment from my August 24, 2012 interview with poet Nate Mackey, he responds to questions about the notions of reincarnation, lost continents and how his book Nod House is about...
Laura Simms – Story-Telling as a Healing Modality
Laura Simms - Storytelling as Healing Modality Laura Simms is a storyteller and author of The Robe of Love: Secret Instructions for the Heart. She discusses her youthful penchant for...
Jaap Blonk in Seattle (Interview & Audio)
We caught up with Dutch sound poet and vocal improvisor Jaap Blonk before his Earshot Jazz Festival gig on Friday, October 26, 2012. (Kudos to John Gilbreath...
War Elegy 2b (After William Everson)
War Elegy 2b (The Lottery, January 23, 2019) In our end time, the days of pre-casino capitalism behind us against the cultural tinnitus nursing connection to non-local mind we seek to release all...
American Prophets @ Elliott Bay Books
I am delighted to be making a presentation about my new book of transcribed interviews, American Prophets, at the legendary Elliott Bay Books, Sunday, February 3, at 3pm. I'm hoping to play some...
Make It True meets Medusario
From the introduction (by Matt Trease) of an upcoming anthology I have had a hand in bringing into the world: Some Background This anthology is the result of a collaboration between Cuban Neobarroco...
In Honor of David McCloskey “The Father of Cascadia”
David McCloskey passed away on July 3. In honor of his lifetime of work to create and spread a culture that was deeply connected to the Cascadian bioregion, Cascadian Prophets, which owes more than just its name to his work, we want to share this interview from October, 2013. Find it transcribed on our website.
To listen to the original audio of this interview, click here.
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In Honor of David McCloskey "The Father of Cascadia"
How does one make literary art about this time in history that avoids rhetoric and facile political positioning in this era of the spectacle? How does one avoid being consumed by the simultaneous collapse of so many systems — some being eviscerated by people in positions designed to protect such systems? Deborah Poe has some idea based on her submission to the upcoming anthology Winter in America (Still.
Deborah is the author of several books of poetry including keep, Elements, and Our Parenthetical Ontology, as well as a novella in verse, Hélène. Her visual works–video poems and handmade book objects–have been exhibited throughout the US. She lives on stolen Coast Salish land, specifically the ancestral homeland of the Duwamish, Suquamish, Stillaguamish, and Muckleshoot People.
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