Poetry

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Awakening the Soul, Deep Response to a Troubled World, a Conversation with Michael Meade

Airs at: Fri, 09/07/2018 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Positively Revolting
Renowned storyteller, author, and scholar of mythology, anthropology, and psychology, Michael Meade returns to Positively Revolting to discuss his newest work, Awakening the Soul, Deep Response to a Troubled World.  Meade explores the profound effects that great cultural  a... Read more

Talking Earth with Leanne Grabel and Casey Bush

Airs at: Mon, 08/20/2018 at 10:00pm - 11:00pm
Produced for:  Talking Earth
Tonight Talking Earth features local poets Leanne Grabel and Casey Bush, fresh from a spoken word tour across the Pacific Northwest.  Leanne Grabel is a writer, illustrator, performance poet, semi-retired special education teacher, and co-founder of Portland's poetry fount o... Read more

Buscando America on 08/14/18

Airs at: Tue, 08/14/2018 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Produced for:  Buscando America
Gorge ICE Resistance es una coalición de varias organizaciones locales del area del Gorge que se unieron para apoyar a huelguistas y detenidos en NORCOR, Northern Oregon Regional Correctional Facility. Conoce a Amber Orion y a Cara Shufelt miembros de esta coalición. En cab... Read more

Interview with Wendy Chen

Airs at: Mon, 08/27/2018 at 10:00pm - 11:00pm
Produced for:  Poetry and Everything
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 A P... Read more

Portland Queer & Trans arts and culture events, coming up in August.

Airs at: Tue, 08/14/2018 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Preference
First, we'll be joined by Virginia Durost, Director of Operations for Hollywood Theatre/Movie Madness. Hollywood Theatre hosts the Queer Commons PDX film series. Queer Commons is showing Just Friends on Wednesday, August 15th, a "romantic comedy about two young men, their r... Read more

You Will Always Be Someone From Somewhere else : Mình sẽ luôn là người nọ đến từ nơi nọ

Airs at: Thu, 08/30/2018 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Between The Covers
  How to make something vỡ, something broken, something shattered beautiful?  Cách làm cái gì đó vỡ, cái gì đó broken, cái gì đó vụn tan rạng rỡ? In Dao Strom’s collection of poetic fragments, You Will Always Be Someone From Somewhere Else,  translated by Ly Thuy Nguyen ... Read more

Be With

Airs at: Thu, 07/26/2018 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
  Forrest Gander’s first book of poems since his Pulitzer finalist Core Samples from the World: a startling look through loss, grief, and regret into the exquisite nature of intimacy "Utterly naked and bereft, elegies, apologies, could-have-beens, Gander grieves and wonde... Read more

Interview with Kirsten Rian

Airs at: Mon, 07/23/2018 at 10:00pm - 11:00pm
Produced for:  Poetry and Everything
Kirsten Rian’s poetry and prose have appeared in numerous publications. She has been awarded artist fellowships, grants, and international residencies, and has led creative writing workshops in several places, including post-war Sierra Leone and refugee relocation centers i... Read more

John Callahan: Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far On Foot

Airs at: Thu, 07/12/2018 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  John Callahan was the most unlikely of cartoonists, a quadriplegic who was only able to grip a pen after extensive physical therapy.  Yet he became a comics phenomenon, transforming personal and cultural demons into abrasive yet hilarious single-panel gags that earned hi... Read more

Ursula K. Le Guin: "Out Here"

Airs at: Tue, 07/03/2018 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Stage and Studio
  "Women's writing tends to get disapeared when they die..." -Ursula K. Le Guin Portland's own Ursula K. Le Guin passed away this year at the age of 88. She was a novelist working mainly in the genres of fantasy and science fiction but she also authored children's books, s... Read more