Poetry and Everything

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Judith Arcana

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4th Monday from 10pm - 11pm

Judith and guests read and talk about poetry and everything

Hosted by Portland writer/poet Judith Arcana (photo courtesy of NIRH)

Guests will be Portland poets, nearby poets - perhaps faraway poets, pairs of poets, groups of poets - maybe even folks who are not poets, all of them reading and talking about poetry (and everything).

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Program status:

Retired

No show tonight -- listen to KBOO's EARTH DAY programming!

Airs at: Mon, 04/22/2019 at 10:00pm - 11:00pm

Produced for: Poetry and Everything

For 24 hours this EARTH DAY (April 22, 2019), KBOO will feature EARTH DAY programming that has - for the very best of totally necessary reasons - pre-empted tonight's episode of "Poetry and Everything." The National Poetry Month show we would have done in April will be on i... Read more

Interview with Harold Johnson

Airs at: Mon, 03/25/2019 at 10:00pm - 11:00pm

Produced for: Poetry and Everything

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Harold Johnson, a poet and teacher of visual art and English, was born in Yakima, Washington in the heart of the Great Depression; he grew up and attended public school there. His experience with poetry started with poems his mother taught him while he was in grade school. ... Read more

Poetry and Science

Airs at: Fri, 03/08/2019 at 9:00pm - 10:30pm

Produced for: International Women's Day / Women's History Month Specials, Poetry and Everything, Wider Window Poetry, Threshold Shift

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Poetry and sound with Judith Arcana of Poetry and Everything, Tiel Ansari of Wider Window Poetry, and Nikki Martin of Threshold Shift. We'll be exploring the intersections between poetry and sound, words and representation, art and science on this International Womxn's Day.... Read more

Interview with Wendy Willis

Airs at: Mon, 02/25/2019 at 10:00pm - 11:00pm

Produced for: Poetry and Everything

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Wendy Willis is the author of two books of poems and a collection of essays. She is the Founder and Director of Oregon’s Kitchen Table, a program of the National Policy Consensus Center in the Hatfield School of Government at Portland State University, and the Executive Di... Read more

Interview with Kristin Berger

Airs at: Mon, 01/28/2019 at 10:00pm - 11:00pm

Produced for: Poetry and Everything

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Kristin Berger is the author of four poetry collections: Echolocation (Cirque Press, 2018), How Light Reaches Us (Aldrich Press, 2016), For the Willing (Finishing Line Press, 2008), and Refugia, forthcoming from Persian Pony Press in 2019. From 2009-2011, she served on th... Read more

Interview with David Ruteizer

Airs at: Mon, 12/24/2018 at 10:00pm - 11:00pm

Produced for: Poetry and Everything

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David Ruteizer, grandchild of Jewish immigrants, grew up in Illinois and Massachusetts. He has an MFA in Creative Writing and his poems appear in Drash, Harpur Palate, Jewish Currents and North Coast Squid. David is the founder of December First Writers; they give reading... Read more

Interview with Tim Whitsel

Airs at: Mon, 11/26/2018 at 10:00pm - 11:00pm

Produced for: Poetry and Everything

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Tim Whitsel believes in the power of dogwood blossoms. He may have migrated west on a solitary bicycle at the age of nineteen. He remembers the cheekbones of the first girl he kissed. Tim has not published these notions, but he did win first prize at the 2013 Northwest Poet... Read more

Interview with Alicia Jo Rabins

Airs at: Mon, 10/22/2018 at 10:00pm - 11:00pm

Produced for: Poetry and Everything

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Alicia Jo Rabins is a poet, musician and teacher of Torah. She received the American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize for Divinity School in 2015; her new book, Fruit Geode, was published in 2018 by Augury Books. Rabins created and performed Girls in Trouble, an ind... Read more

Interview with Michael Spring

Airs at: Mon, 09/24/2018 at 10:00pm - 11:00pm

Produced for: Poetry and Everything

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Michael Spring is the author of four poetry books and one children’s book. He's won several awards, including the Turtle Island Poetry Award and honorable mentions for the Eric Hoffer Book Award and the Green Book Festival Award. In 2016 he won a Luso-American Fellowship ... Read more

Interview with Wendy Chen

Airs at: Mon, 08/27/2018 at 10:00pm - 11:00pm

Produced for: Poetry and Everything

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Wendy Chen is the recipient of the Academy of American Poets Most Promising Young Poet Prize, as well as fellowships from the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts and the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund. Her work has appeared in Crazyhorse, Rattle, American Poets, and A P... Read more