Poetry

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Took House

Airs at: Thu, 08/27/2020 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
  "Lauren Camp’s newest collection Took House is a multitude. Hawks, owls, coyotes, ravens mix with Georgia O’Keefe, Donald Judd, and Annie Leibovitz. Minimal yet soaring. Cemented in time and form yet fluid. There are love poems, avant-garde experiments, prose chunks, fre... Read more

The Return of Lady Danger

Airs at: Sat, 08/15/2020 at 12:00am - 3:00am
The rumors are true, but what does gossiping say about you? Lady Danger Hotline: 541-649-2479 Intro: Henry Rollins mix with Garebear Poem and 666 hz (sorry for the anxiety attack but my mixes are meant to be mind bending.) Song: Dangerous by ScHoolboy Q and Kid Cudi 1st ho... Read more

"Reunion," Emily Kendal Frey

Airs at: Mon, 08/24/2020 at 10:00pm - 11:00pm
Produced for:  The Occasion
The theme for August is "Reunion," and the featured guest is Emily Kendal Frey. She is the author of several chapbooks and chapbook collaborations, including THE GRIEF PERFORMANCE and SORROW ARROW (which won the Oregon Book Award). She is a practicing psychotherapist and li... Read more

Wider Window Poetry: Anis Mogjani

Airs at: Mon, 08/03/2020 at 10:00pm - 11:00pm
Produced for:  Wider Window Poetry
Featured guest Anis Mogjani with additional poems by Yang Mu   Read more

Buscando America on 07/28/20

Airs at: Tue, 07/28/2020 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Produced for:  Buscando America
  Escucha una actualización del movimiento en contra de la brutalidad policial y el racismo en Portland y un testimonio anónimo de un residente herido por la policía. En Corazón del Sur Camila Yánez habla sobre el racismo y la identidad chilena.  Primera sesión de la cáps... Read more

Hello. This is Jane. by Judith Arcana

Airs at: Thu, 07/23/2020 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
Host Ken Jones talks with Judith Arcana, author of the new book of stories Hello. This is Jane, published by Oregon’s Left Fork Press. Judith writes poems, stories, essays, and books. Her work includes a biography of Grace Paley – titled Grace Paley’s Life Stories – the po... Read more

Shrapnel Maps

Airs at: Thu, 07/16/2020 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Between The Covers
  Writing into the wounds and reverberations of the Israel/Palestine conflict, Philip Metres’ fourth book of poems, Shrapnel Maps, is at once elegiac and activist, an exploratory surgery to extract the slivers of cartography through palimpsest and erasure. A wedding in Tou... Read more

To the Memory of Thich Quang Duc

Airs at: Mon, 07/13/2020 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Desiree Hellegers reads her recently published meditative poem, “Koan,” dedicated to the memory of a Vietnamese Buddhist monk. Thich Quang Duc publicly burned himself to death in protest of religious and imperial oppression. Image from: picasaweb.google.com/squintboy/World... Read more

Wider Window Poetry: Charity Yoro

Airs at: Mon, 07/06/2020 at 10:00pm - 11:00pm
Produced for:  Wider Window Poetry
Featured guest Charity Yoro with additional poems by Lucille Clifton     Read more

To Turn Anxiety Back into Anger

Airs at: Mon, 07/06/2020 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
To Turn Anxiety Back into Anger: Norm Diamond reads and reflects on the poem “For Citizenship” by Irish poet John O’Donohue, which speaks of the urgency to turn our anxiety and distraction into anger and solidarity. Read more