Poetry

Poet Emily Jungmin Yoon

Airs at: Fri, 01/25/2019 at 11:00am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Pacific Underground

Emily Jungmin Yoon is a Korean Canadian poet who wrestles with history. Producers Jake and Sara join Emily to talk about her debut full-length poetry collection, A Cruelty Special to Our Species which explores the history of Korean “comfort women” during World War II. Throu... Read more

Fruit Geode

Airs at: Thu, 02/14/2019 at 11:00am - 11:30am

Produced for: Between The Covers

How does a body do what it does: make love, mistakes, create life, exist after life; how does a body evolve, celebrate, regret, reconsider its big and small moments: these are the passionate concerns of Alicia Rabins’ Fruit Geode, a book that I could not stop reading onc... Read more

Interview with Kristin Berger

Airs at: Mon, 01/28/2019 at 10:00pm - 11:00pm

Produced for: Poetry and Everything

Kristin Berger is the author of four poetry collections: Echolocation (Cirque Press, 2018), How Light Reaches Us (Aldrich Press, 2016), For the Willing (Finishing Line Press, 2008), and Refugia, forthcoming from Persian Pony Press in 2019. From 2009-2011, she served on th... Read more

Hey, Marfa

Airs at: Thu, 01/17/2019 at 11:00am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Between The Covers

“Yang rebuilds for the reader a town that is notable for its many stark contrasts: restored & ruined buildings, wealth & poverty, international art & border enforcement. Hey, Marfa makes a remarkable poetic accounting of the ways imagination is currently working with & a... Read more

Wider Window Poetry

First Monday 10-11pm Wider Window Poetry: bringing you voices you may not have heard from places you may not have been. Local poets of color read and discuss their works. Host Tiel Aisha Ansari is a Sufi warrior poet. Her work has been featured by Fault Lines Poetry, Windf... Read more

Buscando America on 12/18/18

Airs at: Tue, 12/18/2018 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm

Produced for: Buscando America

Este 20 de diciembre se cumplen 29 años de aquella madrugada del año 1989 cuando tropas norteamericanas atacaron Panamá por tierra y aire. Conoce más sobre la invasión estadounidense a Panamá en esta emisión. Además hablamos con Javier Sierra sobre la reunión de la COP24... Read more

Ecopoetry

Airs at: Mon, 12/17/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Frann Michel shares poetry about climate change, some of which can be found at the Multnomah County Library as well as on line. She reads these poems: Jackie Kay, “Extinction” Craig Santos Perez, “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Glacier (after Wallace Stevens)” Matthew O... Read more

Talking Earth with Kristin Berger, Amy Temple Harper, Pecos B Jett and Chris Tobey

Airs at: Mon, 12/17/2018 at 10:00pm - 11:00pm

Produced for: Talking Earth

Kristin Berger, Amy Temple Harper Pecos B Jett and Chrys Tobey read their poetry and the work of artists who influenced them . Tune in at 10pm Portland time at 90.7 fm or listen online at kboo.fm Read more

Interview with David Ruteizer

Airs at: Mon, 12/24/2018 at 10:00pm - 11:00pm

Produced for: Poetry and Everything

David Ruteizer, grandchild of Jewish immigrants, grew up in Illinois and Massachusetts. He has an MFA in Creative Writing and his poems appear in Drash, Harpur Palate, Jewish Currents and North Coast Squid. David is the founder of December First Writers; they give reading... Read more