This episode is hosted by Jon Nelson and features these segments:
CEI Hub: Portland’s Ticking Time Bomb: The Critical Energy Infrastructure (CEI) Hub is a six-mile stretch of industrial land in northwest Portland between the Willamette River and Forest Park, where millions of gallons of toxic and explosive liquids are stored in hundred-year-old tanks atop unstable land that will liquefy in an earthquake. As part of the City of Portland's process of updating policies and zoning code to regulate bulk fuel facilities in the CEI Hub, the Bureau of Planning and Sustainability (BPS) has released a draft plan with four alternative options, only one of which even begins to address the dangers. The City is accepting public comments on these alternatives until October 17. Frann Michel talks with Nick Caleb, an attorney with the Breach Collective, about the CEI Hub and the work done by community groups and local activists to address the CEI Hub's dangers to public health, safety, environment, and climate.
Poetry, Politics, and Truth (Archive): William Carlos Williams wrote, "It is difficult / to get the news from poems / yet men die miserably every day / for lack / of what is found there." In this 2017 segment, Patricia Kullberg interviews poet and activist Judith Arcana about her collection of poetry, Announcements from the Planetarium. They take up the question of poetry in relationship to truth and politics.
Poet Said Shaiye Reads at WSU (Archive): We share excerpts from a February 2025 reading at Washington State University. Said Shaiye is an Autistic + ADHD (AuHD) Somali Writer, Photographer & Filmmaker in Minneapolis. He is a 2024 MacDowell Fellow & was awarded a 2024 MN State Arts Education Grant to lead a BIPOC autistic writing workshop where members publish their own books at year's end. His debut book, Are You Borg Now?, was a 2022 Minnesota Book Award Finalist in Creative Nonfiction & Memoir. He has published poetry & prose in Indiana Review, Texas Review, Obsidian, Brittle Paper, Pithead Chapel, 580 Split, Entropy, Diagram, and elsewhere.