Scott Ezell

Pacific Rim Poet and Multi-Genre Artist

With United Wa State Army soldiers, China-Burma border
Performing in Hanoi
“Purification,” driftwood sculpture, Pacific coast of Taiwan

Scott Ezell is a Pacific Rim poet and multi-genre artist with a background in Asia, indigenous peoples, and border zones. He has published ten books of poetry and narrative nonfiction, and released a dozen albums of original folk, ambient, and experimental music.

“This Breathing Land,” from the 2024 album The Television Will Not Be Revolutionized:

With a Tibetan woman in the upper Mekong basin, Yunnan, China

“Helicopters,” a spoken word piece from Shell Games & Ponzi Schemes, performed trilingually in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, with Xun Betan, Carn Crua, and Andrew Long:

At a dam construction site on the upper Mekong in Yunnan, China