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Fisher Poetry

Airs at: Mon, 02/08/2021 at 5:30am - 7:00am
Produced for:  Folk Espresso
Every year since 1998, in the last weekend of February, fisher poets have gathered in Astoria, Oregon to celebrate the livelihood of fishing and its connected community. This year’s FisherPoets Gathering will be different, with the gathering done over the internet. This epi... Read more

Celebrating KBOO Black History and Future!

Airs at: Tue, 02/02/2021 at 7:00pm - 8:00pm
  Join KBOO every Tuesday at 7 p.m. throughout the month of February to hear interviews from some of your favorite KBOO programmers!  We'll be diving into the history of Black KBOO, and Black Portland as a whole. We'll cover subjects ranging from gentification, religion, B... Read more

No Need to Conform

Airs at: Sat, 01/30/2021 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Free advice from GG Allin's life coach: 541-649-2479    *Mischief Brew, Lead singer is Erik Petersen not Alex, I'm sorry Rest in peace friend! Read more

It's a New Dawn, It's a New Day, and We're Feeling Good

Airs at: Fri, 01/22/2021 at 1:30pm - 3:00pm
Produced for:  The Songcircle
Welcoming in the new President (and kicking the old one to the curb) with help from Nina Simone, Bruce Springsteen, Leonard Cohen, Maya Angelou, Tom Jones (covering Todd Snider!?), Janis Ian, Simon & Garfunkel, Dan Bern, Chumbawamba, Anti-Flag, and more, including two breat... Read more

Talking Earth: Laura Winter and Jen Coleman

Airs at: Mon, 01/18/2021 at 10:00pm - 11:00pm
Produced for:  Talking Earth
Tonight's Talking Earth is hosted by dan raphael, with poetry readings by Laura Winter and Jen Coleman.  dan reads some work by Dennis McBride, Jack Spicer and himself. Laura Winter is the author of 6 collections of poetry, broadsides and performance projects. A number of ... Read more

Black Death by Zora Neal Hurston and Lena Horne starring in an episode of Suspense

Airs at: Mon, 01/18/2021 at 11:00pm - Tue, 01/19/2021 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Gremlin Time
To top off Martin Luther King Day we present a short story by one of the stars of the Harlem Renaissance, writer and anthropologist Zora Neal Hurston. A woman seeks the help of a local "hoodoo man" to get retribution on the man who refuses to take responsibility for impregn... Read more

Radio Lost & Found for 01/14/21

Airs at: Thu, 01/14/2021 at 10:00pm - Fri, 01/15/2021 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Radio Lost and Found
Another episode of Radio Lost & Found, the first of 2021 - coming to you live from my home studio! We said goodbye to New York Dolls rhythm guitarist Sylvain Slyvain, witnessed a shocking Heino meltdown across three turntables, heard a quarted of songs by The Rudy Schwartz... Read more

José Clemente Orozco / Julián Carrillo: Concierto para Piano en Tercios de Tono; Horizontes.

Airs at: Tue, 01/12/2021 at 1:30pm - 2:30pm
Muralista mexicano en la serie Voz Viva de México de la U.N.A.M., y el Concierto para Piano en Tercios de Tono y Horizontes. Read more

Steve Earle

Airs at: Thu, 06/02/2011 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Between The Covers
Host Robyn Shanti interviews Steve Earle, musician, actor, and writer about his first novel, I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive, named after a Hank Williams song. The novel is set in San Antonio in 1963, and tells the story of the defrocked doctor and morphine addict. T... Read more

Buscando America on 12/29/20

Airs at: Tue, 12/29/2020 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Produced for:  Buscando America
En el último programa del 2020 presentamos un collash radial con voces de acivistas raperas maravillosas artistas del flow que nos acompañaron a lo largo del año. Escuchamos también un nuevo capítulo de Resiste Tierra compartiendo una serie de registros carcelarios y poesía... Read more