Spoken Arts

Opportunities: Poetry Workshops; Critique Groups; Calls for Submissions; Contests; Fellowships etc

In Klamath Falls Saturday July 28:   Free Literary Elements in Songwriting Workshop Klamath County Library, 126 S. Third St. Klamath Falls, OR Performance by Laura Gibson and workshop students at 4:30p.m. Free and open to the public. Portland singer and song writer Laura Gib... Read more

Talking Earth: Laura Winter and Jen Coleman

Airs at: Mon, 01/18/2021 at 10:00pm - 11:00pm
Produced for:  Talking Earth
Tonight's Talking Earth is hosted by dan raphael, with poetry readings by Laura Winter and Jen Coleman.  dan reads some work by Dennis McBride, Jack Spicer and himself. Laura Winter is the author of 6 collections of poetry, broadsides and performance projects. A number of ... Read more

Black Death by Zora Neal Hurston and Lena Horne starring in an episode of Suspense

Airs at: Mon, 01/18/2021 at 11:00pm - Tue, 01/19/2021 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Gremlin Time
To top off Martin Luther King Day we present a short story by one of the stars of the Harlem Renaissance, writer and anthropologist Zora Neal Hurston. A woman seeks the help of a local "hoodoo man" to get retribution on the man who refuses to take responsibility for impregn... Read more

Radio Lost & Found for 01/14/21

Airs at: Thu, 01/14/2021 at 10:00pm - Fri, 01/15/2021 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Radio Lost and Found
Another episode of Radio Lost & Found, the first of 2021 - coming to you live from my home studio! We said goodbye to New York Dolls rhythm guitarist Sylvain Slyvain, witnessed a shocking Heino meltdown across three turntables, heard a quarted of songs by The Rudy Schwartz... Read more

José Clemente Orozco / Julián Carrillo: Concierto para Piano en Tercios de Tono; Horizontes.

Airs at: Tue, 01/12/2021 at 1:30pm - 2:30pm
Muralista mexicano en la serie Voz Viva de México de la U.N.A.M., y el Concierto para Piano en Tercios de Tono y Horizontes. Read more

Steve Earle

Airs at: Thu, 06/02/2011 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Between the Covers
Host Robyn Shanti interviews Steve Earle, musician, actor, and writer about his first novel, I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive, named after a Hank Williams song. The novel is set in San Antonio in 1963, and tells the story of the defrocked doctor and morphine addict. T... Read more

Buscando America on 12/29/20

Airs at: Tue, 12/29/2020 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Produced for:  Buscando America
En el último programa del 2020 presentamos un collash radial con voces de acivistas raperas maravillosas artistas del flow que nos acompañaron a lo largo del año. Escuchamos también un nuevo capítulo de Resiste Tierra compartiendo una serie de registros carcelarios y poesía... Read more

Mr. Jones's Neighborhood Christmas Day 2020

Airs at: Fri, 12/25/2020 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
It’s Christmas morning here in the neighborhood, maybe in your neighborhood as well. And we’ve been in somewhat of a quandary as to how to honor and celebrate the day. I think the classic story for the day and the entire holiday season is Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol,... Read more

A Very Negativland Christmas

Airs at: Thu, 12/24/2020 at 10:00pm - Fri, 12/25/2020 at 3:00am
Erin Yanke (Life During Wartime), Dr. Zomb (Dr. Zomb's Stereo Obscura) and Rich L. (Radio Lost & Found) team up to bring you, dear KBOO listeners, a Christmas Eve treat, with five hours of Negativland! We'll have lots of amazing sound art by Negativland and even a surprise ... Read more

Katherine Dunn reads excerpts from The Father Christmas Letters by J.R.R. Tolkien

Airs at: Mon, 12/21/2020 at 11:00pm - Tue, 12/22/2020 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Gremlin Time
Once again we present katherine Dunn reading letters from Father Christmas written by the creator of Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien. Created as replies to the letters Tolkien's children would write to Santa Claus. Fortunato is joined in the studio by Umatilla Rose to pres... Read more