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The show is now off the air for the season, but check back as we continue to update our archives... Wed. 6-7 PM, Pacific Standard Time |
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"left to all the creativity we must find" -"Three-Dee Melodie"
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May 18: Poetry readings by Divya Victor and students from the Palouse Community School. Also, an exclusive interview with artist Chip Duyck.
May 11: Interview with Keith Mark Johnson, author of Crossing Zion; poetry readings by David Buuck and Alan Gilbert. May 4. :dusie: release party--featuring Susana Gardner, Sawako Nakayasu, Tom Orange, and Divya Victor.
April 27. Readings by Long Beach-based poet Jane Sprague, (editor of Palm Press) & Washington, DC-based poet Cathy Eisenhower (editor of interrupting cow press).Live, in-studio poetry performance by Hugo Vargas.
April 20. Brooklyn-based poets Jen Coleman, Ethan Fugate, and Susan Landers read poetry and discuss the journal, PomPom (Property of Many). The show also featured the music of the Charles Potts Magic Windmill Band, based in Walla Walla.
April 13. The poetry of Carol Mirakove & a feature on Them-Isms.
March 30. A tribute to Robert Creeley.(1926-2005), including poems from PennSound and an excerpt from a 1984 interview conducted by Don Swaim. March 9. A conversation with poet Carolyn Forché.
March 2. Featuring "Kenning #12--the audio edition," a CD of poetry February 23. Poetry from Dylan Thomas, George Oppen, and Tracie Morris. February 16. Poetry by Juliana Spahr. Live poetry and conversation with Walla Walla poet Charles Potts.
February 9. Featuring the poetry of Ammiel Alcalay and George Oppen, as well as an array of roots reggae music in honor of Bob Marley's 60th birthday (on February 6). February 2. An interview with Whitman College professor of politics Paul Apostolidis, who discussed the worker struggle at the Tyson meatpacking plant in Pasco, Washington; the Safe Work/Safe Food organization; and the findings of a report he co-authored with labor economist Mark Brenner (UMass-Amherst) called An Evaluation of Worker Health and Safety at the Tyson Fresh Meats Plant in Pasco, Washington.
We also played poetry by Linh Dinh and Kristin Prevallet (author of the Letters from Citizen Kay blog). January 26. Featuring Traven Leyshon, Union Representative Teamsters Local 556, who discussed the worker struggle at the Tyson Foods meatpacking plant in Pasco, Washington, one of the most dangerous plants in the nation. Leyshon also talked about the just-released report by Human Rights Watch, Blood, Sweat, and Fear: Workers’ Rights in U.S. Meat and Poultry Plants, which determines meatpacking to be the most dangerous work in the United States. Plus an interview with Dave Kung and Sahar Shafqat, two participants in the Bush inauguration protests in Washington, DC., and poetry by Lisa Jarnot.
December 22: Featuring the poetry of Heather Fuller, Lisa Jarnot, and Edwin Torres. December 15: The poetry of Bob Holman and David Abel. Debut of "Always a Radio Tower in Sight," an original composition by Matthew Sargent, co-creator of the Red Letters project. "Always a Radio Tower in Sight" is performed by Matthew Sargent (guitar) and Christopher Kallmyer (trumpet).
December 8: Special interview and poetry with Philadelphia poet and organizer CA Conrad. Also, Christian Parenti explains the important intersections between capitalism, poverty, and the prison system.
December 1 • Exclusive interview with Philadelphia poet and political activist Frank Sherlock. Sherlock also read his poetry, as well as some collaborative work with CA Conrad. November 24 • Featuring Travis Catsull, who talked about poetry events at the Temple Bookstore; poems by John Cage, Lisa Jarnot, Edwin Torres, Pablo Neruda, and Robert Duncan. November 17 • Featuring Ryan Scott King, Research Associate from The Sentencing Project, to discuss felon voter disenfranchisement, as well as Attorney General nominee Alberto Gonzales and his Texas capital punishment record. Tonight's program featured poetry by Kristin Prevallet, Alice Notley, and Anselm Berrigan.
November 3 • A post-election discussion with Mary Hanna, political analyst and former Whitman College professor of politics; poetry by David Abel and Carolyn Forché; a live reading by Rod Smith
October 27 • A feature on the dub poet Linton Kwesi Johnson. Also played the Washington State premiere of an anti-Bush commercial written by poet/artist/activist/teacher Kristin Prevallet (produced in conjunction with the Speakfirst Campaign). October 20 • Interview with Father Paul Surlis, live from Crofton, Maryland. Father Surlis discussed prison issues. October 13 • poetry by Gil Scott Heron, CD Wright, Langston Hughes, as well as Tariq Ali's "Problems Have a History." October 6 • a conversation with Vinny Lombardo, a long time deejay and supporter of Free Radio Santa Cruz, which has operated as a pirate radio station in Santa Cruz, California, for ten years. As part of his discussion about pirate radio, Lombardo spoke about last week's raid of the station by nearly twenty armed federal agents.
Sept. 29 • a discussion with Daniel Clark about the upcoming October 3 Art & Social Action Workshop and performance by Yolanda King, as part of the Freedom from Discrimination Month in the Walla Walla Valley. Sept. 22 • Guests Laura Elrick and Rodrigo Toscano read poetry and discussed the Poetry Project reading during the Republican National Convention protests, and other cultural actions.
Sept. 15 • inaugural show. Allen Ginsberg "visited" to perform "Hum Bom." Introduction to our regular segment "The Prison Corner."
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