Cascadian Prophets Podcast

Paul E Nelson postcard poem 445. Alley Greymond, Seattle, WA - Snake Chief on the Stairs

(Click here for audio) 443. Ericka Melby, Bartlesville, OK - Alone Under Helicopters

(click here for audio) 442. Drew Myron  PO Box 914  Yachats, Oregon - Map of the P-Patch

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(Click here for audio) 440. to Rhonda Ganz, Victoria, BC-The True Story of the Poets Chair

(Click here for Audio) 439. Michael Hanner, Eugene, OR - Mr. Breeze

(Click here for audio) 438. Carol Dorf, Berkeley, CA - Kiss the Morning Glory

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(Click here for audio) 436. Aaron Kokorowski, Seattle, WA - Frowning Moon

(Click here for audio. P.S. Mel Functioning? Really Mel?) 435. Mel Functioning, Singapore - Collars Up!

(Click here for audio) 434. Amorak Huey, East Grand Rapids, MI - Mambo de la Noche

(Click here for audio of the poem) 433. Barbara Barg, Chicago, IL - What’s Left Mambo (3d scan of Crater Lake postcard not quite like having the card in your hands)

(Click here for audio) 432. to David Daniels, Denver, CO – Buttercup Mambo

(Hear audio for this poem here.) 431. to Sandy Longhorn, Little Rock, AR Wide Horizons

(Click here for audio) 430. to Morgan Harlow, Barneveld, WI – Emperor of Wind

(For Audio, click here.) or 429. to Stu Cawley, Chestertown, MD – Bodies of Clay

OK, I jumped the gun on the 2013 Poetry Postcard Fest. Though I am posting here a month after writing and sending the first poem of 2013 (& my 428th postcard poem) I started writing the poems on July 17 and not ten days later on the 27th as we tell people to do when we sign them up to participate in the fest. Sue me. (Click here for audio to listen while you read.) 428. Age of Wind (For Judy Jense...

Allergic To Cats Wednesday night I attended a poetry reading of younger women poets on Capitol Hill. Organized by Jocelyn Macdonald, it was called Allergic to Cats A Feminist Poetry Reading. While some poets could have "sung shorter" as they say in Taos, the evening was thoroughly enjoyable and it is delightful to see younger folks organize readings. Below, the audio - as it happened - in four hun...

Mickey O Mickey O'Connor and Nico Vassilakis read in the first SPLAB matinee reading, Saturday, September 17 at 3:30. Here's is the unedited audio from Mickey O, who read from Pushkin's Umbrella, among other works. Here is the unedited audio from Nico V. Here is the SPLAB Presents that featured Mickey O'Connor. Nico V

Andrew Schelling Andrew Schelling is a poet, translator and longtime teacher at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics in Boulder, Colorado, part of Naropa University, as well as the Deer Park Institute in India. In July, 2011, he talked with Paul Nelson about his new book: From the Arapaho Songbook. The whole interview is archived here.

Dodie Bellamy   In town for a celebration of an exhibition by feminist artist Carolee Schneemann, Dodie Bellamy read from The Buddhist at the Henry Art Gallery on October 20th, 2011 and an excerpt was featured on SPLAB Presents for the week of October 31, 2011. Her whole reading is archived here.

Brenda Hillman finished off the SPLAB 2011 Visiting Poets Series in fine fashion November 11 and 12 with a brilliant talk on Innovation and Activism in Poetry Friday the 11th (Veterans Day), a workshop that left at least one participant "buzzing all day" and a reading featuring her brilliant new work. One long-time stalwart of the local poetry scene said it was "the best reading I have ever seen h...

On September 24th 2011, poets gathered (at SPLAB) & in 450 cities around the world in an event called 100 Thousand Poets for Change. The event is designed to change how we see global community and work to cure symptoms of a world that, in Gary Snyder’s words, is “upside down.” Seattle’s venue for 100 Thousand Poets for Change was SPLAB in Columbia City and the featured poet was Suquamish native Ce...

Brenda Hillman City Brenda Hillman finished off the SPLAB 2011 Visiting Poets Series in fine fashion November 11 and 12 with a brilliant talk on Innovation and Activism in Poetry Friday the 11th (Veterans Day), a workshop that left at least one participant "buzzing all day" and a reading featuring her brilliant new work. One long-time stalwart of the local poetry scene said it was "the best readin...

Xi Chuan, peN While in China for the 3rd Qinghai Lake International Poetry Festival this past August, I met one of the most renowned younger Chinese poets, Xi Chuan. He has a book coming out next year entitled Notes on the Mosquito, published in translation by New Directions. In Seattle recently to celebrate the release of an anthology of contemporary poetry from China, Push Open the Window (Coppe...