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Buscando America on 01/14/20

Airs at: Tue, 01/14/2020 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Produced for:  Buscando America
Javier Sierra habla sobre los incendios forestales que azotan el continente Australiano y sobre  el esfuerzo por cerrar plantas carboneras a través de la campaña Más Allá del Carbón. Desde San Cristóbal de las Casas Chiapas las NotiFrayba sobre el Ejido Las Flores donde se ... Read more

The Magical Language of Others

Airs at: Thu, 01/16/2020 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Between The Covers
  “In The Magical Language of Others, E.J. Koh writes of the boundary between anonymity and naming, between absence and abandonment, between cruelty and safety for four generations of mothers and daughters, each speaking with an occupied heart and crossing narrative border... Read more

Abortion Access/Reproductive Health and Justice

Airs at: Mon, 01/27/2020 at 10:00pm - 11:00pm
Produced for:  Poetry and Everything
This will be the last episode of Poetry and Everything for a while (or forever – we’ll see what happens).  The series – which opened in July of 2016, just a little while before this current phase of our national horrorshow began – will have run for 37 months by the end of J... Read more

Buscando America on 12/24/19

Airs at: Tue, 12/24/2019 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Produced for:  Buscando America
Programa navideño transmitiendo desde la ciudad de México donde hablamos con Maggie Loredo de la organización ODA Otros Dreams en Acción sobre los balances del 2019 para la comunidad de los que crecieron en los Estados Unidos y ahora se encuentran en México debido a la depo... Read more

Reading by Judith Arcana

Airs at: Mon, 12/23/2019 at 10:00pm - 11:00pm
Produced for:  Poetry and Everything
If you’ve been listening to “Poetry and Everything” regularly, or even now&then, you know that the past several months have included shows with various formats (that is, not what had been the standard in the first three years of the show). This one, too, is different, in bo... Read more

Lavish T

Airs at: Thu, 12/19/2019 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Express Yo'self
On this episode, Ji interviews the Portland based artist Lavish T about his rapping career. Lavish T can be supported on instagram @_tvhjpvmps. In addition to interviewing him, Ji gives a shoutout to all of the talented artists that were on her show this year. The Express Y... Read more

Featured guest: KURT IKEDA

Airs at: Mon, 02/03/2020 at 10:00pm - 11:00pm
Produced for:  Wider Window Poetry
Thanks to our featured guest Kurt Ikeda, and we'll also hear poems by Robert Lashley, https://www.seattlereviewofbooks.com/writers/robert-lashley/   Read more

Until the Lions: Echoes of the Mahabharata

Airs at: Thu, 01/09/2020 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
  In Until the Lions, Karthika Naïr retells the Mahabharata through the embodied voices of women and marginal characters, so often conquered and destroyed throughout history. She captures the richness and complexity of the Mahabharata, while illuminating lives buried benea... Read more

Black Books for the Holidays

Airs at: Thu, 12/05/2019 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Black Book Talk
Black Book Talk listeners are invited to call in and share books by Black authors that you'd like to give (or receive!) during the holidays.  Tell us about the book that made you smile, laugh or just think a little deeper.  You know, the one that you couldn't stop talking a... Read more

The Divine and the Mundane: Music in the Fabric of Our Lives

Airs at: Sat, 11/30/2019 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Threshold Shift
Whether we hear it or not, we are always steeped in sound. Over the course of 2019, Threshold Shift has been exploring the intersections of field recording, sound design, human hearing and music. We started in March with guest host, Bill McQuay's, second deep dive into the ... Read more