Poetry

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Remembering Quanice Hayes

Airs at: Fri, 03/02/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Pacific Underground
  On February 16th, Whitenoise Project held an event in memory of Quanice Hayes, one year and a week after he was shot and killed by police. Join Pacific Underground as we replay some of the recorded audio from that event and talk about the connections between art and acti... Read more

KBOO News Poem: Trump Shoes

Airs at: Wed, 02/14/2018 at 5:00pm - 6:00pm
Produced for Evening News
    A gaudy threat hangs over the Washington DC of our souls--KBOO News Poet Dan Raphael is on the scene. Read more

Talking Earth with Matthew Minicucci

Airs at: Mon, 02/19/2018 at 10:00pm - 11:00pm
Produced for Talking Earth
Tonight's edition of Talking Earth will feature Portland poet Matthew Minicucci,the author of two collections of poetry: Small Gods, finalist for the 2016 Green Rose Prize from New Issues Press, and Translation (Kent State University Press, 2015), chosen by Jane Hirshfield ... Read more

Interview with Kaia Sand

Airs at: Mon, 02/26/2018 at 10:00pm - 11:00pm
Produced for Poetry and Everything
Kaia Sand has worked as a poet, artist, organizer, and teacher. Since her work twenty years ago as a volunteer for Yellow Brick Road, much of her energy has focused on economic injustice and homelessness, from a magic show about the financial collapse to the Right 2 Survive... Read more

Matter and Desire

Airs at: Mon, 02/05/2018 at 12:00am
Produced for Progressive Spirit
  Andreas Weber is a Berlin-based philosopher, biologist, and writer. He holds degrees in marine biology and cultural studies. He proposes the development of a “poetic ecology” which intimately attaches our species to every being and underpins the entire range of human exp... Read more

Interview with Peter Hamer

Airs at: Mon, 01/22/2018 at 10:00pm - 11:00pm
Produced for Poetry and Everything
Peter Hamer lives in Estacada, Oregon with his wife, two cats and an elderly Labrador Retriever. He sits on the Estacada Arts Commission, is the Music Coordinator for the Estacada Summer Celebration annual art and music festival, and serves on the board of the Performing Ar... Read more

Gospel of Regicide

Airs at: Thu, 01/25/2018 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for Between The Covers
  "In Gospel of Regicide, Eunsong Kim develops a thrilling method for unwriting lyric even as she reimagines it, creating a socially engaged poetry of and for our time. Anticapitalist, feminist and anti-racist yet critical of non-intersectional understandings of identity a... Read more

In the Spirit of Peace & Understanding - An Audio Collage of Word Music & Poetry

Airs at: Mon, 01/01/2018 at 10:00pm - 11:00pm
The Magical Mystery Tour is a show produced in Vermont by  Tonio Epstein  that dives into the heart of things, exploring new ideas and new ways of seeing in this wondrous crazy world we share together. This episode is a audio collage of poetry, music and poetry in the spiri... Read more

When You Never Said Goodbye by Meg Kearney

Airs at: Thu, 12/14/2017 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for Between The Covers
Host Ken Jones talks with Meg Kearney, author of the new book When You Never Said Goodbye, a novel in poems and journal entries. When You Never Said Goodbye is the final book in a trilogy following the teen years of Lizzie McLane, an adopted daughter searching for her birth... Read more

The Education of a Young Poet

Airs at: Thu, 12/21/2017 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for Between The Covers
  “What a memorable, companionable, and singular book. I can’t think of another contemporary memoir that has this mix of political and literary intelligence, all embedded in a personal story that is told with great candor, historical consciousness, and wit. How I wish it h... Read more