Talking Earth

James Grabill is the author of 18 books, including Eye of the Spiral and the 2 volume sea level nerve. He won an Oregon book award, and was a finalist two other times. He’s reading tonight from his just out book Stray Dogs and Irreversible Cars. He’s a former professor of L... Read more

Scot Siegel is a city planner and poet whose most recent book of poems, Tender Currencies, won the 2024 Sally Albiso Poetry Award. Previous collections include The Constellation of Extinct Stars and Other Poems (2016) and Thousands Flee California Wildflowers (2012) from Sa... Read more

This month's Talking Earth, hosted by dan raphael, features Portland writer's Leah Stenson, C E Putnam and Marilyn Stablein, all of whom lived in Asia and now live in Portland. dan will read a couple poems from Rone Shavers and himself.  Leah Stenson is a world traveler, w... Read more

Tonight's edition of Talking Earth will feature the poems of Dante Graham-Preston, Drew Slum and Marcus Lattimore. Host Patrick Bocarde has known Drew for decades since the open mic glory years of the early aughts. Patrick caught up with Drew for a little bit in late August... Read more

Tonight's edition of Talking Earth, hosted by dan raphael, features local writers Kelly Lenox, Daneen Bergland and Michael Keefe.  Kelly Lenox writes poetry and prose from her home in Milwaukie, Oregon. Her first poetry collection is The Brightest Rock (2017). Kelly also wri... Read more

A mysterious pamphlet criticizing certain Science Fiction writers, as well as a French director and a French philosopher (perhaps there is a theme there), has appeared in Portland.  In an experimental show, Talking Earth host and board-op grills the pamphleteer and his fier... Read more

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Tonight's edition of  Talking Earth airs a show from July 2021 in honor of Walt Curtis' birthday. Slightly edited, but with Walt discussing 4th of July, the history of Oregon City, and a heatwave that happened that year. Board-op Patrick Bocarde adds a poem bemoaning the su... Read more

This show can only be heard in its entirety online. A smorgasbord of spoken word: Walt Curtis talking about a zine he made for the Rose Festival, host Patrick Bocarde reading an old terrible poem about the Portland Pose Festival, recordings of poets who influenced the host,... Read more