Poetry

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Jorge Reyes

Airs at: Mon, 05/18/2020 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Produced for:  A Different Nature
Jorge Reyes started his career with Al Universo and continued with Nuevo México in the mid 70's; then he was part of Chac Mool, recording four albums before a successful solo career, mixing traditional rock instruments and Pre-Hispanic, a type of music called Etno-Rock (Eth... Read more

Talking Earth featuring Nancy Dear

Airs at: Mon, 05/18/2020 at 10:00pm - 11:00pm
Produced for:  Talking Earth
Hello, dear listeners , on Monday, May 18th, we have a performance by Portland’s majestic bubblegum unicorn of poetry, Nancy Dear!  Accompanied by her mighty purse dog, Bru , Nancy reads several of her poems ; the magic of Nancy’s poetry is that when she reads poems about h... Read more

Buscando America on 05/12/20

Airs at: Tue, 05/12/2020 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Produced for:  Buscando America
  En esta emisión Griselda Sánchez presenta Líridas: Fonografía de un momento fugaz, una lluvia de meteoros realizado en la Sierra Norte de Oaxaca.  En este programa escucharás la sesión No. 11 de Voces que Luxan, con el informe de Agua y Vida, organización ecofeminista e... Read more

Alfa Gunga Din, Zaratustra de Alejandro Jodorowsky y Los Divinos Placeres de Rafael Corkidi

Airs at: Fri, 05/08/2020 at 10:00pm - Sat, 05/09/2020 at 12:00am
Produced for:  La Ruleta
This Friday evening we have prepared from our own collection three rare recordings.  We will start with Alfa-Gunga-Din, from 1968, under the direction of Alexandro Jodorowsky, which includes versions of songs by Gilberto Gil, Bacharach, Purcell, Bach Hendrix and the Beatle... Read more

A Fortune for Your Disaster

Airs at: Thu, 05/21/2020 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Between The Covers
  “A Fortune for Your Disaster proves that, if you pay attention, Black people have defined and still define themselves for themselves amid roses and dandelions, cardinals and violets, the blues of music and police uniforms, prayer and swagger, Kehinde Wiley paintings and... Read more

Wider Window Poetry: Jennifer Perrine

Airs at: Mon, 05/04/2020 at 10:00pm - 11:00pm
Produced for:  Wider Window Poetry
Featured guest Jennifer Perrine with additional poems by Joy Harjo   Read more

"Fools," Kate Gray

Airs at: Mon, 04/27/2020 at 10:00pm - 11:00pm
Produced for:  The Occasion
The theme for April is "Fools," and this month's show features Kate Gray, who is the author of For Every Girl: New & Selected Poems and Another Sunset We Survive, which was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award and followed her chapbooks, Bone-Knowing, winner of the Gertrude... Read more

Buscando America on 04/21/20

Airs at: Tue, 04/21/2020 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Produced for:  Buscando America
Gritos de auxilio desde los centros de detención de Otay Mesa CA. y Tacoma WA. Las deportaciones de Estados Unidos no cesan y no entienden de controles sanitarios. En la sesión 5 de Pateando Piedras reportan Franco  y Torrente sobre el contexto del movimiento social en Chi... Read more

SoundMachine

Airs at: Thu, 04/30/2020 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Between The Covers
  Rachel Zucker sweeps all the corners in this maximalist project of poems and prose, navigating love, loss, and personal and political despair. Through heartbreaking, often comic, genre-non-conforming pieces spanning the past 10 years, she trains her relentless attention ... Read more

They Feed They Lion

Airs at: Mon, 04/13/2020 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
In honor of National Poetry Month, Patricia Kullberg discusses the 1968 poem, “They Feed They Lion,” by former US Poet Laureate, Philip Levine and what the poem might mean for us today as we grapple with the devastation of climate change and pandemic disease. Aerial view o... Read more