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.
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12 Sept 2026
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.
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26 Aug 2026
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
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