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Airs at: Mon, 08/19/2024 at 10:00pm - 11:00pm
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Every 2nd and 3rd Monday of the month from 10:00pm to 11:00pm. 

 

Poetry, spoken arts, prose

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Talking Earth: April 10, 2023 with Walt Curtis

Airs at: Mon, 04/10/2023 at 10:00pm - 11:00pm
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Tonight's edition of Talking Earth features an expanded edition of the World Poetry Day Special from Walt Curtis at its core.  Of course, there is not much else to say about this show since the audio arrived from an alternate dimension; the ending, where board-op Patrick Bo... Read more

World Poetry Special: Part 2, with Walt Curtis

Airs at: Tue, 03/21/2023 at 10:30pm - 11:00pm
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Join us in the second half of Talking Earth's World Poetry Day Special, host Walt Curtis and board-op Patrick Bocarde read poetry from Rimbaud, Baudelaire, Appollonaire, Yevgeny Yevtushenko and Paul Celan among others, many in their original languages.  Filmaker Sabrina Gui... Read more

World Poetry Special: Part I, with Kurt Schweigman

Airs at: Tue, 03/21/2023 at 10:00pm - 10:30pm
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KBOO's spoken word radio show Talking Earth celebrates World Poetry Day with a half hour special featuring the poetry of Oglala/Sicangu Lakota poet Kurt Schweigman.  Portland poetry fans may remember him as Luke Warm Water.  Host Patrick Bocarde talks with Kurt about his ch... Read more

Talking Earth: Gaskill, Miller Memmott

Airs at: Mon, 03/20/2023 at 10:00pm - 11:00pm
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This episode of The Talking Earth features Portland poets Julia Gaskill and John Miller, and LaGrande poet David Memmott. Host dan raphael will also throw in poems by Tongo Eisen-Martin and Amiri Baraka.  Julia Gaskill is a professional daydreamer hailing from Portland, Her... Read more

Talking Earth, March 13th with Walt Curtis

Airs at: Mon, 03/13/2023 at 10:00pm - 11:00pm
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In tonight's edition of Talking Earth host and local poet Walt Curtis celebrates Women's History Month with discussing, reading, and playing poetry from Emily Dickinson, Hazel Hall, Leanne Grabel and others.  Board-op Patrick Bocarde chimes in with a poem of his own, as wel... Read more

Talking Earth: February 20, 2023: Margareta Waterman

Airs at: Mon, 02/20/2023 at 10:00pm - 11:00pm
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Tonight's edition of Talking Earth features poet margareta waterman reading from her new book of poetry in progress.  She founded the small press nine muses books in Seattle, Washington in 1987,[2] and has since published upwards of 70 books and chapbooks by poets, improvis... Read more

Talking Earth on 02/13/23

Airs at: Mon, 02/13/2023 at 10:00pm - 11:00pm
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Talking Earth: ash good, Morgan Paige and Tim Barnes

Airs at: Mon, 01/16/2023 at 10:00pm - 11:00pm
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Tonight's edition of  Talking Earth features local poets Ash Good, Morgan Paige, and Tim Barnes. Host dan raphael will throw in a couple other poems.  ash good is a nonbinary queer poet & designer living, playing & working in Portland, OR. They are the author of five books... Read more

Talking Earth: January 9th, 2023 with Walt Curtis

Airs at: Mon, 01/09/2023 at 10:00pm - 11:00pm
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On Tonight's edition of spoken word show Talking Earth, host Walt Curtis discusses Malcolm Lowry's classic novel, Under the Volcano.  We also hear a little more from a recording Walt made with New Orleans musician Dusty Santamaria, and board-op Patrick Bocarde reads a poem. Read more

Talking Earth: Book Stab 1

Airs at: Mon, 12/19/2022 at 10:00pm - 11:00pm
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Tonight's edition of Talking Earth is the inaugural edition of Book Stab, where host Patrick Bocarde discusses the merits and mostly demerits of novels and poetry with guests.  Tonight's guest is Ceylon Anderson.  Mr Anderson was co-producer and co-writer of The Worriers, a... Read more