Poetry

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Driving Without A License

Airs at: Fri, 04/26/2019 at 11:00am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Pacific Underground

This week join Pacific Underground producers Jake and Matt for a conversation with Janine Joseph! We were really excited to connect with Janine and speak with her about her brilliant & award winning first poetry collection, Driving Without a License. Our chat wends between... Read more

Buscando America on 04/23/19

Airs at: Tue, 04/23/2019 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm

Produced for: Buscando America

En esta emisión hablamos con Albar Acántar vocalista de la banda de rock Apolo agrupación originaria de Chihuahua. Javier Sierra habla sobre el Nuevo Pacto Verde y el lanzamiento del cortometraje "Campeones de Energía Limpia" el cual esta centrado en South Tucson Arizona, ... Read more

MYKU: My Portland by Meg Vogt

Airs at: Thu, 05/02/2019 at 11:00am - 11:30am

Produced for: Between the Covers

Host Ken Jones talks with Meg Vogt, author of the new book of photographs and poems MYKU: My Portland. “MYKU” is what Meg calls her variations on the haiku form, a poem in three lines of five, seven, and five syllables. The book pairs Meg’s MYKU’s with photographs from her... Read more

Portland poet Nastashia Minto, author of "Naked"; and the Portland Queer Documentary Film Festival

Airs at: Tue, 04/23/2019 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm

Produced for: Preference

We'll be talking with Nastashia Minto, author of the new poetry collection, 'Naked': I never truly understood the beauty of another being until I began to find and love myself. Minto is a Georgia-born African American woman living and working in Portland. Reema Zaman call... Read more

Between the covers

Airs at: Mon, 04/01/2019 at 11:00am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Between the Covers

Airs at: Mon, 04/22/2019 at 10:00pm - 11:00pm

Produced for: Poetry and Everything

For 24 hours this EARTH DAY (April 22, 2019), KBOO will feature EARTH DAY programming that has - for the very best of totally necessary reasons - pre-empted tonight's episode of "Poetry and Everything." The National Poetry Month show we would have done in April will be on i... Read more

Tiffany Midge, Standing Rock Lakota Poet: From Wit to Myth to Prayer

Airs at: Wed, 04/10/2019 at 8:00am - 9:00am

Produced for: Wednesday Talk Radio

Journalist Jacqueline Keeler talks to Tiffany Midge, Lakota poet from the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and author of "The Woman Who Married a Bear" winner of the Kenyon Review Earthworks Prize for Indigenous Poetry. Midge's (a contributor to McSweeney's) forthcoming book "Bury... Read more

Buscando America on 04/09/19

Airs at: Tue, 04/09/2019 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm

Produced for: Buscando America

It's KBOO's Spring Membership Drive! // Campaña de Recaudación de fondos. Llama al 877-500-5266 or join online. Conoce PHOTOMATON Salvajismo Lingual i konmocion de la palabra. Buena música para bailar con audiopoemas de http://palabraskomoarmas.blogspot.com Read more

Magical Negro

Airs at: Thu, 05/30/2019 at 11:00am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Between the Covers

“Magical Negro is unsettlingly new: a book that incisively explores states of black womanhood with astonishing buoyancy and grief. I can’t stop thinking about the songs it sings, songs that feel inevitable and yet unvoiced, complex and yet urgent; poems that are steeped ... Read more

What We're Reading Now

Airs at: Thu, 04/04/2019 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Black Book Talk

Black Book Talk co-hosts Emma Jackson Ford, O. B. Hill and Patricia Welch discuss what's on their bookshelves this month. Listeners are invited to call-in (503-231-8187) and share their current reads. Read more