Our featured guest is poet, Dorsía Smith Silva, author of In Inheritance of Drowning. We also feature Wendy Loomis of COPUS, celebrating the CD, The Assignment, a tribute to poet Royal Kent. Elizabeth Perlman talks with young writer, Stella Pollock. New music by Jay Rodriguez Sierra featuring legendary percussionist Giovanni Hidalgo, and Martha's new single Get on Your Rocket.| Listen & Be Heard Network
ABOUT THE ASSIGNMENT COPUS - an acronym for Creation Of Peace Under Stars - is an ensemble formed in the late 1990s by poet Royal Kent and composer/pianist Wendy Loomis. Together they created a body of positive spoken word and beautiful music that has inspired people around the world. Royal passed away in October 2024. These are his unpublished lyrics read by 6 poets and surrounded by Wendy's piano pieces. "The Assignment" were the last words Royal spoke on this Earth. With love & gratitude.| Listen & Be Heard Network
WENDY LOOMIS is an award-winning San Francisco-based composer, pianist, producer, and educator. She has released 20 CDs to date and performs nationally and internationally with various ensembles in the genres of poetic jazz, new age, and world music.| Listen & Be Heard Network
Martha Cinader, Judy Talaugon, Jay Rodriguez Sierra and Tony Robles are joined by award winning photo journalist Ozier Muhammad. The conversation begins with Judy talking about the native history and the names of the tribes who lived and came during the roundup period where she lives in California, and Ozier talking about his experiences in Chicago in the Nation of Islam, as the grandson of Elijah Muhammad.| Listen & Be Heard Network
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/W-E-B-Du-Bois-The-Fight-for-Equality-and-the-American-Century-1919-1963/David-Levering-Lewis/9781668123539| Listen & Be Heard Network
The second volume of the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography that The Washington Post hailed as "an engrossing masterpiece."In this final magisterial volume, fifteen years in the research and writing, David Levering Lewis stunningly recreates the second half of W.E.B. Du Bois's charged and brilliant career. Beginning with the return of World War I African American veterans to the riots and lynchings of the "Red Summer" of 1919 and ending with Du Bois's self-imposed exile and death in Ghana for...| Listen & Be Heard Network
Ozier Muhammad graduated with a B.A., in photography from Columbia College in Chicago. He has been a photojournalist for more than 3 decades. His first job was as a staff photographer at Ebony Magazine. Ozier joined The Charlotte Observer in 1978, went to Newsday in 1980 and has been at the New York Times since 1992.| Listen & Be Heard Network
Listen & Be Heard Remix Volume One: a timely blend of our guests reading from their work, and other highlights from previous episodes.| Listen & Be Heard Network
Our featured guest is pianist, poet and essayist Matthew Shipp, talking about his book of essays and prose poems, Black Mystery School Pianists. We also feature pianist Richard Clements talking about the legacy of the legendary pianist and teacher Barry Harris. Our new music this week is Jay's take on Nessum Dora, with Jay on tenor saxophone, Victor Jones - drums and Alex Blake- bass. Martha's new poem is Teardrop.| Listen & Be Heard Network
Dorsía Smith Silva is the author of In Inheritance of Drowning (CavanKerry, 2024), which was a finalist for the Whirling Prize and reviewed by Publishers Weekly. She is a multi-nominated Pushcart Prize nominee, Best of the Net finalist, Best New Poets nominee, Cave Canem Poetry Prize Semifinalist, Poetry Editor at The Hopper, and Professor of English at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras.| Listen & Be Heard Network
With a unique, instantly recognizable style, pianist Matthew Shipp has been active on the international jazz scene since late 1980s. His boundary-less musical approach crisscrosses free jazz, elliptical post-bop, and modern classical music. He served as pianist in the David S. Ware Quartet during the early '90s before leading his own dates and recording duos with a variety of musicians.| Listen & Be Heard Network
