Poetry

Khalid Mosley Presents: Rose City Rip Hop

Airs at: Fri, 02/10/2017 at 7:00pm - 7:30pm
Produced for:  Rose City Rip Hop
 KBOO's very own Khalid Mosley sits down with local musicians, such as, Bocha, Zach Drury, Markis Apollo, and groups like Dead Phone Dummiez, and Cosmic Gurus. But thats not all, there are many other artists to look forward to. Rose City Rip Hop is all about shedding light ... Read more

Modern Sounds in Country & Western Music

Airs at: Sat, 02/11/2017 at 6:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Swing 'n' Country
  In 1962 Ray Charles surprised the pop world by turning his attention to country & western music. Regarded by many critics as Charles's best studio album, Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music has been considered a landmark album in American music, blending soul, gos... Read more

Noah Schultz

Airs at: Mon, 02/06/2017 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
Carlos Chavez interviews Noah Schultz, an inspiring young man who was recently released from Oregon Youth Authority custody. He was featured in the 2015 Salem Ted Talks and again at last year’s Portland TEDx. He has been a valuable mentor, published poet and activist.  Noah... 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

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

Angela Barber, Holy Women Icons

Airs at: Mon, 01/30/2017 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Progressive Spirit
Not many congregations have two out lesbians as a clergy team.   They do that kind of thing in North Carolina.    Rev. Dr. Angela Yarber is a trailblazer.  She is author of several books that address the intersections among religion, the arts, gender and sexuality. She hold... Read more

Stafford Show with James Dixon and Kathleen Worley

Airs at: Mon, 01/23/2017 at 10:00pm - Tue, 01/24/2017 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Poetry and Everything
  James Dixon is originally from North Carolina and a local theater actor/singer.  After nearly 10 years of travel to over 32 states and 7 countries, he decided to make Portland his home.  James enjoys dialect work, sci-fi, social justice activism, and is "always a sucker ... Read more

Author Isabel Wilkerson and "The Warmth of Other Suns"

Airs at: Thu, 01/05/2017 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Black Book Talk
Hosts Emma Jackson Ford, O.B. Hill  and Patricia Hill Welch talk with Pulitzer Prize winning author Isabel Wilkerson in this rebroadcast of their November 2010 interview.  Wilkerson discusses “The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration,” a New Yor... Read more

A Look Back on 2016

Airs at: Fri, 12/30/2016 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Bread and Roses
To close out the year, we'll play some memorable moments from 2016 episodes, including Danica Brown on transformative direct action at Standing Rock, Leslie Gregory on racism as a public health threat, Kiki Nicole with Unchaste Readers on erasure with their blackout poetry ... Read more

An Interview with Ursula K. Le Guin

Airs at: Mon, 12/26/2016 at 10:00pm - 11:00pm
Produced for:  Poetry and Everything
Ursula K. Le Guin is known for her prose; this show focuses on her work as a poet, which is what she is focusing on these days.  She's published seven collections so far - including, recently, Finding My Elegy and Late in the Day; another is in progress.  Her writing has re... Read more