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Interviews with Cascadian creative luminaries about the practice of poetry and deepening connections to place, self and the present moment.
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- 2 days ago43 min
Interview with Mary Norbert Körte (pt 4 and final)
This is part 4 of a multi part interview with Mary Norbert Körte. Listen to part 3 here, part 2 here, and part 1 here. After an initial interview, former Catholic Nun Mary Norbert Körte requested a follow up discussion because she felt she had been too harsh on her family. With the fire crackling in the background, she elaborated on the topic, including how her mother worried because she was hanging out with “people who commit adultery and don’t eat right.” In this part of the interview, she discussed her civil disobedience, including getting arrested in the Albion uprising; her shame with regard to some of her older work; and read several poems, including Throwing Firecrackers Out The Window While the Ex-Husband Drives By, Turning Forty in Willits, and God Knows What's Living In There. To hear the original audio from this interview, click here. Check out more of what the Lab does here, and listen to more current and archival podcasts on Spotify or on our website. Want to write a poem but aren’t sure where to begin? Try our workshop: I want to write a poem (but don’t know how).
- 2 weeks ago32 min
Interview with Mary Norbert Körte (pt 3)
This is part 3 of a multi part interview. Listen to part 2 here, and part 1 here. After an initial interview, former Catholic Nun Mary Norbert Körte requested a follow up discussion because she felt she had been too harsh on her family. With the fire crackling in the background, she elaborated on the topic, including how her mother worried because she was hanging out with “people who commit adultery and don’t eat right.” In this part of the interview, she discussed her connection with the local tribal networks as an English teacher and in other positions, her responses to Michael McClure's Ghost Tantras, Hunter Thompson, Gertrude Stein’s notion that “we feel the same inside all our lives” and read two of her poems, “Tell the Doc” and “The Cult of Firewood.” To hear the original audio from this interview, click here. Check out more of what the Lab does here, and listen to more current and archival podcasts on Spotify or on our website. Want to write a poem but aren't sure where to begin? Try our workshop: I want to write a poem (but don't know how).
- Oct 1, 202634 min
Interview with Mary Norbert Körte (pt 2)
This is part 2 of a multi part interview. Listen to part 1 here. After an initial interview, former Catholic Nun Mary Norbert Körte requested a follow up discussion because she felt she had been too harsh on her family. With the fire crackling in the background, she elaborated on the topic, including how her mother worried because she was hanging out with “people who commit adultery and don’t eat right.” She continued to discuss the connection of Beat (as in Beat poet) to the word beatitude, the notion of poets as “oddballs” like the Jesuit priest Gerard Manley Hopkins, the coincidental names of places where she has found herself living and how she has felt guided all her life. She also talked about how that guidance in life also happens in her process of composing poetry as Jack Spicer talked about. Poet as radio “receiver.” She also shared about themes from her fear of the afterlife to Denise Levertov. To hear the original audio from this interview, click here. Check out more of what the Lab does here, and listen to more current and archival podcasts on Spotify or on our website. Come to the Cascadia Poetry Fest to feel like Mary at the 1965 Berkely Poetry Conference!
- Sep 12, 20261h 0m
Tim McNulty on the 4th edition of Olympic National Park: A Natural History
This interview with Tim McNulty on the 4th of edition of Olympic National Park: A Natural History was recorded Sunday, October 28, 2018, at the home of Tim & Mary McNulty, Lost Mountain, WA. The Poet and Nature Writer lives in these mountains and with these mountains. Read the 4th edition of Olympic National Park: A Natural History and you will see a hundred or more reasons why this corner of the world is unique and why it deserves its status as a UN World Heritage site. Tim has lived in the Olympics since 1991 with his wife Mary and discussed his book, the remarkable part of the world he lives in, and one of his poems about his experience living in and with these mountains. To listen to the original audio of this interview, click here. Check out more of what the Lab does here, and listen to more current and archival podcasts on Spotify or on our website. To get original poetry right in your mailbox and tap into the weave of universal energy check out the Poetry Postcard Fest. Registration for 2027 begins tomorrow, September 1! To get into the community in person and lifted up by the Cascadian energy, come to the Cascadia Poetry Fest, October 9-11!
- Aug 26, 202647 min
John Brehm 1955-2026
Death of Portland poet John Brehm and a re-posting of the 2022 interview of him conducted by Paul E Nelson
- Jul 24, 202644 min
“Tell Clyfford I Said ‘Hi’”: Exhibition Curated by Children of the Colville Confederated Tribes
Nicole Cromartie and Katie Watson-Best of the Clyfford Still Museum are interviewed about" “Tell Clyfford I Said ‘Hi’”: An Exhibition Curated by Children of the Colville Confederated Tribes.
- Jul 24, 202657 min
Joyce Tsai Interview (Director of Clyfford Still Museum)
Interview with Joyce Tsai, Director of the Clyfford Still Museum, on his life and work.
- Jul 18, 202656 min
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, 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. Check out more of what the Lab does here, and listen to more current and archival podcasts on Spotify or on our website.
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