For 24 hours this EARTH DAY (April 22, 2019), KBOO will feature EARTH DAY
programming that has - for the very best of totally necessary reasons -
pre-empted tonight's episode of "Poetry and Everything."
The National Poetry Month show we would have done in April will be on...
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Harold Johnson, a poet and teacher of visual art and English, was born in
Yakima, Washington in the heart of the Great Depression; he grew up and
attended public school there. His experience with poetry started with poems
his mother taught him while he was in grade schoo...
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Poetry and sound with Judith Arcana of Poetry and Everything, Tiel Ansari of
Wider Window Poetry, and Nikki Martin of Threshold Shift. We'll be exploring
the intersections between poetry and sound, words and representation, art and
science on this International Womxn's D...
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Wendy Willis is the author of two books of poems and a collection of
essays. She is the Founder and Director of Oregon’s Kitchen Table, a
program of the National Policy Consensus Center in the Hatfield School of
Government at Portland State University, and the Executive...
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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 o...
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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 read...
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Tim Whitsel believes in the power of dogwood blossoms. He may have migrated
west on a solitary bicycle at the age of nineteen. He remembers the
cheekbones of the first girl he kissed. Tim has not published these notions,
but he did win first prize at the 2013 Northwest P...
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Alicia Jo Rabins is a poet, musician and teacher of Torah. She received
the American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize for Divinity School
in 2015; her new book, Fruit Geode, was published in 2018 by Augury Books.
Rabins created and performed Girls in Trouble, an ...
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Michael Spring is the author of four poetry books and one children’s book.
He's won several awards, including the Turtle Island Poetry Award and
honorable mentions for the Eric Hoffer Book Award and the Green Book Festival
Award. In 2016 he won a Luso-American Fellowsh...
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Wendy Chen is the recipient of the Academy of American Poets Most Promising
Young Poet Prize, as well as fellowships from the Kimmel Harding Nelson
Center for the Arts and the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund. Her work has
appeared in Crazyhorse, Rattle, American Poets, and ...
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