POETRY & POETS

  • KPFA poetry festival (Part 3 of 5) / recorded by Randy Thom and Doug Maisel.

    KPFA Poetry festival Part 3 of 5. This part begins with Max Schartz, host of KPFA’s prison poetry show STATE OF EMERGENCY, who conducts a spontaneous jam with his jazz musician friends. Edward Dorn, Joanne Kyger, and Simon Ortiz are the other poets on this program.

  • KPFA poetry festival (Part 4 of 5) / recorded by Randy Thom and Doug Maisel.

    KPFA Poetry festival Part 4 of 5. The fourth part of the Poetry Festival features Victor Hernandez Cruz, who opens with the question “What do you do if you are raised in Iowa and you still want to be a poet?” This program also includes the dynamic poet Alta of the Shameless Hussy Press.

  • KPFA poetry festival (Part 5 of 5) / recorded by Randy Thom and Doug Maisel.

    KPFA Poetry festival Part 5 of 5. This final part of the program is devoted, naturally, to Allen Ginsberg.

  • Democracy Now! April 24, 2003

    Hour 1: U.S. and North Korea talks begin in Beijing: University of Chicago professor Bruce Cumings discusses North Korea; The role of poets in a time of war: Grace Paley, Vermont s official state poet, talks about the peace movement. Hour 2: San Francisco Chronicle reporter fired for protesting: Henry Norr discusses his dismissal after…

  • Democracy Now! April 24, 2003

    U.S. and North Korea talks begin in Beijing: University of Chicago professor Bruce Cumings discusses North Korea; The role of poets in a time of war: Grace Paley, Vermont s official state poet, talks about the peace movement. |8:00-8:01 Billboard 8:01-8:10 Headlines 8:10-8:11 One Minute Music Break 8:11-8:30: Envoys from the US and North Korea…

  • Democracy Now! February 7, 2003

    First Lady Laura Bush Cancels Poetry Gathering Fearing Anti-War Poems: Democracy Now! hosts its own poetry slam with Def Poetry Jam stars Staceyann Chin, Suheir Hammad , Steve Colman; North Korea Threatens a Pre-emptive Strike on U.S. troops, and Reactivates Its Nuclear Reactor: We talk with Korean expert Bruce Cumings |9:00-9:01 Billboard 9:01-9:20 : First…

  • THE POET AND THE POEM : ‘WISE GUYS’ GERMAN POP A CAPPELLA GROUP.

    THE POET AND THE POEM : ‘WISE GUYS’ GERMAN POP A CAPPELLA GROUP. / a one hour musical special with conversation in English with the ‘Wise Guys’. Includes selections from their songs, discussion of the composing process with five thirty-year old guys studying various subjects at University of Cologne. This show is their premiere appearance…

  • The Poet And The Poem : David Gewanter

    The Poet And The Poem : David Gewanter / interviewed by Grace Cavalieri. The sixth program in a six-part series features David Gewanter. He is author of ‘In the Belly’ and is working on a new book of poems, ‘Sleep of Reason’, plus a collection of essays, ‘Identity Poetics’. He has coedited ‘The collected poems…

  • The Poet And The Poem : Billy Collins

    The Poet And The Poem : Billy Collins / interviewed by Grace Cavalieri. “The first program in a six-part series featuring newly appointed Poet Laureate of U.S. Collins is the most popular poet in America for his humor, wry wit, accessible work, and poetry that combines the comic with the profound…Host Grace Cavalieri has the…

  • The Poet And The Poem : Tory Dent

    The Poet And The Poem : Tory Dent / interviewed by Grace Cavalieri. “The second program in a six-part series featuring Tory Dent, who is dying with AIDS. Dent was named ‘Witter Bynner Fellow in Poetry’ by Library of Congress. She is the author of two books: ‘What Silence Equals’, and ‘HIV, Mon Amour’. She…