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PAUL E NELSON

Southern Cascadia Poet Jerry Martien

In September 2015 I had the chance to interview a poet and long-time bioregionalist Jerry Martien on the waterfront in Eureka, California. With Jim Dodge, he’s one of the two poets from extreme Southern Cascadia in the book Make It True: Poetry From Cascadia. I...

Stephen Collis, Cascadia Po Fest Closing Reading

One of the high points for me at the 2nd Cascadia Poetry Festival May 2014, at Seattle U and Spring Street Center in Seattle, was hearing Stephen Collis read. He may be the quintessential Cascadia poet, as he’s a voracious reader, an activist often sticking his...

Cascadia Basics by David McCloskey

David McCloskey sent me a link to a recent interview he did with KLCC at the Oregon County Fair: Thanks, Paul, for your heartfelt reply…. I forgot to include the good news: https://www.klcc.org/FeatureAudio/7-13_OCF_Interview_DavidMcCloskey.mp3 Performed a gig...