Talking Earth--Rutiezer, Shaner, Aveningo Sanders

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Airs at: Mon, 10/13/2025 at 10:00pm - 11:00pm
Airs at: Mon, 10/20/2025 at 10:00pm - 11:00pm
Airs at: Mon, 06/08/2026 at 10:00pm - 11:00pm
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Barbara LaMorticella, Dan Raphael, Michael Van Kleeck
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David Rutiezer’s a Poet, actor, singer, dancer, writer and educator. Other Dances is his first chapbook. His poems have appeared in Drash, Harpur Palate, Jewish Currents, North Coast Squid,  and Mortality Poems.       

Tim Shaner’s books include Radio Ethiopia: Testimony of a Development Brat (Spuyten Duyvil, 2024), Noch Ein at the Stein: A Poetic Essay on Beer, Conversation, and Hippycrits ( 2022),  and I Hate Fiction: A Novel (2018).  Places his work has appeared include Word For/Word,  Broken Lens Journal, Exquisite Pandemic, and Jacket. He teaches writing at Lane Community College and hosts the Studio 7 poetry series.

Shawn Aveningo Sanders' newest book Pockets was a finalist in Concrete Wolf’s Chapbook Contest. Shawn’s poetry has appeared in CALYX, Contemporary Haibun Online, , Timberline Review, , and others. A multiple Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee, she shares the creative life with her husband here in Oregon where they run The Poetry Box press. (More at RedShoePoet.com)

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Talking Earth on 08/20/12

Airs at: Mon, 08/20/2012 at 10:00pm - 11:00pm
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Talking Earth on 08/13/12

Airs at: Mon, 08/13/2012 at 10:00pm - 11:00pm
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Talking Earth on 07/16/12

Airs at: Mon, 07/16/2012 at 10:00pm - 11:00pm
Brittney Corrigan and Jodie Marion walk the tightrope of employment, mariage and childrearing while performing a dazzling juggling act with poems that skillfully dance between family and children and the the larger 21st century world we move in. On tonight’s Talking Eart... Read more

Talking Earth on 06/18/12

Airs at: Mon, 06/18/2012 at 10:00pm - 11:00pm
Faultlines is a brand new journal of West Coast poetry that aims to be a venue for poetry that is engaging, accessible, and fine. Editor Tony Pfannenstiel has assembled a collection from 70 poets up and down the West Coast, both well known and emerging, young and old. Th... Read more

Talking Earth on 04/16/12

Airs at: Mon, 04/16/2012 at 10:00pm - 11:00pm
Tonight’s Talking Earth features two of Portland’s most talented women artists: Leanne Grabel and Penelope Scambly Schott as they read and discuss growing up female in America. Leanne will read from her newest book, Brontosaurus: Memoir of a Sex Life, and from her book a... Read more

Talking Earth on 01/16/12

Airs at: Mon, 01/16/2012 at 10:00pm - 11:00pm
January marks the celebration of the birthdays of both Martin Luther King, Jr. and William Stafford.  In tribute to them, tonight’s Talking Earth brings two outstanding Portland poets together: Emmett Wheatfall and Paulann Petersen, Oregon’s Poet Laureate. Emmett Wheatfa... Read more

Talking Earth on 12/19/11

Airs at: Mon, 12/19/2011 at 10:00pm - 11:00pm
Poets Judith Barrington and Janice Gould  read their poems and talk with host Barbara LaMorticella about their journey into their authentic lives and voices on Monday night December 19 from 10-11 PM. Judith is a poet, memoirist and teacher who was born in Brighton Englan... Read more

Talking Earth on 11/21/11

Airs at: Mon, 11/21/2011 at 10:00pm - 11:00pm
Poets Carlos Reyes and Henry Hughes read and speak with host Barbara LaMorticella on Talking Earth Monday Night November 21, from 10-11 PM. Reyes reads from his new book, The Book of Shadows, New & Selected poems; and Hughes shares his own poetry and poetry from the ne... Read more

Talking Earth on 10/17/11

Airs at: Mon, 10/17/2011 at 10:00pm - 11:00pm
Marc Beaudin is the poetry editor of the online journal CounterPunch and the co-owner of Elk River Books in Livingston, Montana. His latest book is The Moon Cracks Open: A Field Guide to the Birds and Other Poems. He also edited an anti-war anthology, Jihad bil Qalam: To... Read more

Talking Earth on 09/19/11

Airs at: Mon, 09/19/2011 at 10:30pm - 11:00pm
Two poets with quirky, lively and independent voices on Talking Earth on KBOO Monday, September 19 from 10 to 11 PM: M.F. McAuliffe and Christine Homitsu-White. M. F. McAuliffe is a writer, editor, and photographer who made her US publishing debut in Damon Knight's Clari... Read more