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Gravity's Rainbow translator Max Nemtsov

Airs at: Thu, 02/02/2017 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
Host Ken Jones talks with Max Nemtsov, a writer, translator, and editor based in Moscow. Max’s translation credits include a long list of great American post-war writers including Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Charles Bukowski, J.D. Salinger, Ken Kesey, Richard Brautigan... Read more

Ep.1 Black Eyed Pea and Collard Greens Soup

Airs at: Thu, 01/26/2017 at 4:00pm - 4:30pm
Produced for:  Peace, Love and Soup
  Jan. 2017 - A new podcast for the New Year... the new moon & the Chinese New Year, bringing you Peace, Love and Soup! by Tave Fasce Drake and Brian Delaney   In this premier episode we make Black Eyed Pea and Collard Greens Soup for prosperity and luck in the New Year.... Read more

The Holy Crowley Hour, Or Two

Airs at: Mon, 01/30/2017 at 10:00pm - Tue, 01/31/2017 at 12:00am
Produced for:  The Holy Crowley Hour
On tonight’s show, we explore outer space, which is looking pretty attractive right about now. Our guest is Christopher Hart, creator of the sci-fi podcast Exoplanetary. The podcast follows four members of the Wolverton family as they travel the solar system for a giant cor... Read more

Furious Flower Honors Rita Dove

Airs at: Tue, 01/31/2017 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Stage and Studio
Dmae presents an episode from With Good Reason with a pre-Black History Month special celebrating the poetry and of Pulizer Prize-winning poet Rita Dove.  The most celebrated African American poets in America pay homage to the life’s work of former Poet Laureate and Pulitz... Read more

Breaking News...

Airs at: Sun, 01/29/2017 at 4:00pm - Sat, 02/04/2017 at 4:00pm
Produced for:  This Is How We See It
Donald Trump is sworn in as the 45th President of the United States.  Orlando night club shooters wife is arrested by FBI.  Sir Paul McCartney sues Sony Music for copyright of Beatles catalog.  Join us as we discuss these topics and more.   Read more

Words Are My Matter by Ursula K. Le Guin

Airs at: Thu, 02/16/2017 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Between The Covers
  “Hard times are coming, when we’ll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope. We’ll need writers wh... Read more

Sounds Unsound late January 2017

Airs at: Sun, 01/29/2017 at 12:00am - 3:00pm
Produced for:  Sounds Unsound
New music, old music.. sounds and noise.. audio collage and experiments ..  Read more

There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé by Morgan Parker

Airs at: Thu, 03/30/2017 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Between The Covers
There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé uses political and pop-cultural references as a framework to explore 21st century black American womanhood and its complexities: performance, depression, isolation, exoticism, racism, femininity, and politics. The poems weave bet... Read more

Abandon Me by Melissa Febos

Airs at: Thu, 03/16/2017 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Between The Covers
“Abandon Me is, in many ways, a story about how a woman’s body and the body of literature hold memory. In other ways, Abandon Me is a story about stories. Febos weaves familial stories, feminist stories, communal stories, literary stories and love stories all at once reveal... Read more

Mexican Cassette Culture Recordings 1977-1982

Airs at: Fri, 01/27/2017 at 10:00pm - Sat, 01/28/2017 at 12:00am
Produced for:  La Ruleta
This Box covers many of those experimental artists from Mexico such as Aristeo, Via Lactea & Carlos Alvarado, Hilozoizmo, Decibel, Oxomaxoma with Arturo Romo & Jose Alvarez & Miguel A. Ruiz and Voldarepet with Arturo Meza, Juan Wolfang Cruz and Marco A. Godinez. This kind ... Read more