Cascadian Prophets Podcast

Johnny Moses This week on SPLAB Presents, Paul Nelson has a bit of Johnny Moses from his new CD, produced at Jack Straw Productions. Johnny Moses is a Tulalip Native American raised in the remote Nuu-chah-nulth village of Ohiat on the west coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Johnny, whose traditional name is Whis.stem.men.knee, was raised in the traditional native ways by his grandparents...

Andrew Schelling Andrew Schelling is a poet, translator and longtime teacher at the From the Arapaho Songbook 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. SPLAB Presents for the week of Oct 3, 2011 is archived here. The...

Cedar Sigo On September 24th, poets gathered at SPLAB & in 650 cities around the world in an event called 100 Thousand Poets for Change. Featured poets at SPLAB for 100 Thousand Poets for Change included City Lights poet and Suquamish native Cedar Sigo, who also facilitated a workshop on poets of the San Francisco Renaissance (Jack Spicer, Joanne Kyger and John Weiners), as well as writing exercis...

100 THOUSAND POETS FOR CHANGE IS ORGANIZING A GLOBAL EVENT FOR SEPTEMBER 24th 2011 600 Events – 450 Cities – 95 CountriesJoin other poets around the USA and across the planet, on September 24th, in a demonstration/celebration of poetry to promote serious social, environmental, and political change. Judith Roche 100 Thousand Poets for Change Seattle (Schedule) 11a Welcome: Paul Nelson Judith Roche...

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

Cedar Sigo On September 24th, poets will gather (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 is SPLAB in Columbia City and the featured poet is Suquamish na...

From Qinghai Lake to Tongren, Xi’an and Beijing, Sounds of China In August, 2010, I received my invitation to the 3rd Qinghai Lake International Poetry Festival and a year later arrived in China with my wife Meredith on August 6, 2011. We spent a night in Beijing and arrived the next day in Xining, where we stayed at the Qinghai Hotel and met Jidi Majia, the Head of the Information Department for...

Nico Vassilakis has been active in Seattle's literary community for 20 years. His recent work includes co-editing The Last Vispo: Visual Poetry Anthology 1998-2008 forthcoming from Fantagraphics Books in Fall 2012. Mickey O'Connor is the author of three books of poetry, the most recent entitled Pushkin's Umbrella. He has been a poet for many years, written thousands of lines of poetry, hundreds of...

George Bowering  is a prolific Canadian novelist, poet, historian, and biographer. The author of more than 90 books, Bowering is the best-known of a group of young poets including who studied together at the University of British Columbia in the 1950s. There they founded the journal TISH. On SPLAB Presents for the week of August 15, 2011 George talks about his new book My Darling Nellie Grey. See...

Paul Nelson reports from the 3rd Qinghai Lake International Poetry Festival. Meredith Nelson's photos are featured.

Trev Carolan Trev Carolan is the editor of Making Waves: Reading BC and Pacific Northwest Literature. Paul Nelson caught up with him at the Prophouse Cafe in Vancouver to talk about the book. SPLAB Presents for the week of July 25, 2011. The whole interview with Trevor Carolan. The interview page is being updated weekly at: https://cascadiapoeticslab.org/2010/11/interviews/ and we will eventually...

A new feature on KBCS,91.3FM Thursday afternoons is SPLAB Presents, featuring segments from interviews Paul Nelson has conducted, or segments of readings he's recorded. Judith Roche is a Seattle poet and arts educator who is featured on next SPLAB Presents produced for the week of July 11, 2001, reading from her Salmon Suite recorded at the Vashon Island Poetry Festival May 2011. See other intervi...

From Brian McGuigan: The best reading series in Seattle--"Cheap Wine and Poetry"--gets busy for the bards this Thursday, April 28 with Roberto Carlos Ascalon, Elizabeth Austen, Paul Nelson and Katie Ogle. If you're not there, you are seriously missing out. Richard Hugo House. There was a standing-room-only crowd, the biggest in the history of the series, with at least 120 people and some turned aw...

Sharon Doubiago photo by by Andrena Zawinski Poetry Writing Workshop, Sunday, April 17, 2011 at 12N @ SPLAB w/ Sharon Doubiago This workshop for creative writers at all stages of development will approach writing that comes from soul first rather than craft.  I use memory, self-exploration, poetry and aesthetics exercises and experiments to help participants identify their true stories, concerns,...

Nathaniel Mackey's visit to Seattle was a remarkable weekend. He gave a reading and facilitated a workshop at SPLAB on Saturday, March 12 and gave a prose reading and engaged in a conversation at the NW African-American Museum on Friday, March 11. Earlier on that Friday, Nate sat down with SPLAB Founder Paul Nelson to discuss his poetry, his poetics and the soul-building opportunity for a poet in...

The SPLAB Visiting Poet Series welcomed Nathaniel Mackey to Seattle March 11 and 12, 2011, for a prose reading and conversation, a workshop and a poetry reading. For many reasons, this event set a new high water mark for SPLAB. Mackey was the 2nd Visiting Poet to read for SPLAB since we moved from Auburn, Washington to Seattle’s Columbia City neighborhood in 2009. Michael McClure visited in March...

SPLAB welcomes legendary poet, essayist, novelist and editor Nathaniel Mackey to Columbia City for a reading, workshop at the new SPLAB location, 3651 S. Edmunds in the Cultural Corner of the former Columbia School and a talk at the NW African-American Museum. On Saturday, March 12, Mackey will lead an afternoon writing workshop from 1:00 to 4:00PM, followed by a public reading at 7:30PM. The work...

SPLAB welcomes legendary poet, essayist, novelist and editor Nathaniel Mackey to Columbia City for a reading tonight at 7:30 at SPLAB, 3651 S. Edmunds in the Cultural Corner of the former Columbia School. Admission to the public reading is $5. Poet and novelist Nathaniel Mackey was born in 1947 in Miami, Florida. He received a B.A. degree from Princeton University and a Ph. D. from Stanford Univer...

SPLAB welcomes legendary poet, essayist, novelist and editor Nathaniel Mackey to Columbia City for a reading, workshop at the new SPLAB location, 3651 S. Edmunds in the Cultural Corner of the former Columbia School and a talk at the NW African-American Museum. The workshop is filling up. To register, or for more information, please contact Paul Nelson at pen(at) splab (dot) org or call 206.422.500...

SPLAB welcomes legendary poet, essayist, novelist and editor Nathaniel Mackey to Columbia City for a reading, workshop at the new SPLAB location, 3651 S. Edmunds in the Cultural Corner of the former Columbia School and a Friday night talk at the NW African-American Museum at 2300 S. Massachusetts Av. at 7PM. On Saturday, March 12, Mackey will lead an afternoon writing workshop from 1:00 to 4:00PM,...

SPLAB welcomes legendary poet, essayist, novelist and editor Nathaniel Mackey to Columbia City for a reading, workshop at the new SPLAB location, 3651 S. Edmunds in the Cultural Corner of the former Columbia School and a talk at the NW African-American Museum. The workshop is filling up. To register, or for more information, please contact Paul Nelson at pen(at) splab (dot) org or call 206.422.500...

Paul Nelson at Deception Falls, May 1, 2017 This page features some of the SPLAB archive, including interviews done for SPLAB with Visiting Poets, Northwest Poets, readings at SPLAB and elsewhere that we've recorded, & radio segments including SPLAB Presents, which aired for several months in 2011 and were produced by Paul E Nelson. See below. Please also check out the ongoing interview project of...

May 19, 2010 Michael read to a partisan crowd at the legendary Moe's Books in Berkeley on Wednesday, May 19, 2010. The audio available here, skips past the introduction and the assorted GRAHHRS offered by the audience as Michael is welcomed to the mic. He read from his latest, Mysteriosos, which John Olson reviewed here. McClure is revealed at the top of his game with this book and the reading con...

Last night I drove up to Vancouver to attend the Fred Wah book release party. With Fred as the night’s headliner and the emcee being George Bowering, two of the most important North American poets of a generation, I knew this would be an event well worth attending. I left Seattle early, checked into the downtown hostel and arrived WAY early, but basically had my pick of seats.