Poetry

The Genius Myth

Airs at: Fri, 05/06/2016 at 8:00am - 9:00am

Produced for: Positively Revolting

Ani and Lyn are very pleased indeed to welcome back to Positvely Revolting, author, mythological scholar, and riveting speaker Michael Meade. We'll be having an in-depth conversation with Michael about his new book The Genius Myth. This book draws on decades of his wo... Read more

A DIFFERENT NATURE salutes ORNETTE COLEMAN tonight at 8pm

Airs at: Mon, 05/02/2016 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm

Produced for: A Different Nature

Join the A DIFFERENT NATURE Collective tonight for a kind of radio primer on Ornette Coleman, as some of us share what recordings we still have of his most pivotal and radical music from our collections and reflect on the life and turbulent times of one of modern music's... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for April 25, 2016

Airs at: Mon, 04/25/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Bill Resnick talks with Steve Bloom about poetry and the 99% Book Mole Larry Bowlden reviews Kristy Woodson Harvey’s Lies and Other Acts of Love. Denise Morris revisits the 1960 documentary film Primary in light of current campaigning and reporting we're o... Read more

Radical Poet Steve Bloom

Airs at: Mon, 04/25/2016 at 9:00am - 9:15am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

On the Old Mole Variety Hour, Bill Resnick talks to Steve Bloom, a worker, a poet, a Marxist intellectual who never entered the academy. In his writings, Steve Bloom has been discussing the sea-change in U.S. political consciousness, such that people discuss the 99... Read more

Poetic Justice: Eat-in don't drive-up

Produced for: Evening News

If you’re looking to open new drive throughs Our mayor Chuck Hales has some bad news On our busiest streets When you want fries and meat You’ll have to go in where the grease stews when drivers are hurried and starving They’re heedless of where they are drivi... Read more

Remi Kenazi

Airs at: Fri, 04/22/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: One Land Many Voices

We hear a talk by Remi Kanazi, a Palestinian-American performance poet and human rights activist based in New York City. His latest book is : Before the Next Bomb Drops: Rising Up from Brooklyn to Palestine He is the editor of the anthology o... Read more

THE QUADRAPHONNES host The Outside World this Friday night!

Airs at: Sat, 04/23/2016 at 12:00am - 3:00am

Produced for: The Outside World

The following is an IMPORTANT MESSAGE from your local Quadraphonne council : Join us on KBOO from midnight on Friday, April 22 to 3am Saturday, April 23 for three hours of music and information on upcoming shows! First, the Quadraphonnes will be performing live i... Read more

Proxies by Brian Blanchfield

Airs at: Thu, 05/19/2016 at 11:00am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Between The Covers

A go-for-broke essay collection that blends cultural close reading and dicey autobiography. Past compunction, expressly unbeholden, these twenty-four single-subject essays train focus on a startling miscellany of topics —Foot Washing, Dossiers, Br’er Rabbit, Housesitt... Read more

Ways To Disappear by Idra Novey

Airs at: Thu, 05/05/2016 at 11:00am - 11:30pm

Produced for: Between The Covers

Deep in gambling debt, the celebrated Brazilian writer Beatriz Yagoda is last seen holding a suitcase and a cigar and climbing into an almond tree. She abruptly vanishes. In snowy Pittsburgh, her American translator Emma hears the news and, against the wishes of her b... Read more

Late in the Day: Poems 2010-2014 by Ursula K. Le Guin

Airs at: Thu, 04/21/2016 at 11:00am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Between The Covers

Late in the Day, Ursula K. Le Guin’s new collection of poems (2010–2014) seeks meaning in an ever-connected world. In part evocative of Neruda’s Odes to Common Things and Mary Oliver’s poetic guides to the natural world, Le Guin’s latest give voice to objects that may no... Read more