Martha welcomes Jonathan Thirkield to the audio garden to talk about his new book of poetry, Infinity Pool. We welcome a new co-host, Judy Talaugon to the L&BH Hour and we talk with her about The Tribunal Project. We persist in resisting the banning of books and meditate on what it means to listen and be heard.| Listen & Be Heard Network
Pyeng Threadgill talks with Martha Cinader about her new book and audiobook, Lost & Found, part memoir part guide to life as an artist. Jay Rodriguez Sierra presents new music, The Light Within You, featuring Jay on Bansuri flute, Joe Russo on drums and Marco Benevento on organ.| Listen & Be Heard Network
Growing up in the 1980s, in the heart of New York City's downtown music and art scene became fertile ground for seeds of creativity, doubt, and eventual empowerment for Pyeng Threadgill-as expressed through Lost & Found: Finding the Power in Your Voice, a collection of personal essays, poetry, and prose.| Listen & Be Heard Network
Pyeng Threadgill is an American vocalist, composer, author, video artist, and voice and movement teacher. With a deep belief in the transformative power of music and movement, she creates what she calls New Porch Music. Drawing on the musical traditions of the African Diaspora—from Black American Folk and Soul to Jazz and improvisation—Pyeng uses her Porch Sessions to foster connected conversations, empowering audiences to reflect on their own life stories and identities for healing and g...| Listen & Be Heard Network
Marque Gilmore returns home from London and makes time to talk with longtime friend and colleague in the music business, Gail Ward, and Jay Rodriguez Sierra, about his musical path, the Black Rock Coalition, Burnt Sugar, his charitable film project and much more...| Listen & Be Heard Network
Bev Grant, speaks about her life as a songwriter, photographer and activist. We hear more of Charlie Rosario's experiences making record cover art, new music by Jay Rodriguez Sierra and some poetry by Henry Grimes.| Listen & Be Heard Network
Bev Grant is a veteran social activist, feminist, labor singer/songwriter, "cultural worker" from Park Slope Brooklyn, where she has lived for over 40 years. She is the co-creator of a women's labor history multi-media presentation entitled "We Were There!" has recorded six albums, including a companion cd for the show, called "We Were There!", a solocd entitled "IN TUNE", a 7-song ep with her former group, Bev Grant & the Dissident Daughters, called “CHEEKY WOMAN”, two albums with her fo...| Listen & Be Heard Network
Driving beats, coursing rhythms, swaying skirts, and swaggering bandleaders playing deep into the sultry night: Latin music is a celebration of life and sensuality, and nowhere are these essential values better reflected than the dazzling record covers that present this music to the world. Cocinando!: Fifty Years of Latin Album Cover Art draws together the most beautiful, sexy, colorful, innovative, and creative Latin record covers from all the various genres of Latin music: mambo, salsa, bo...| Listen & Be Heard Network
There is a fine line between self-emancipation and existential oblivion, as the life of Henry Grimes and the poems of SIGNS ALONG THE ROAD clearly illustrate. A master bassist who played with the likes of Sonny Rollins, Thelonious Monk and Gerry Mulligan, he also sent tremors through the free-jazz world with the definitive style of his bass work in pioneering ESP recordings by the Albert Ayler Group. And then came his free fall through the oft-cited but virtually nonexistent "social network."...| Listen & Be Heard Network
Dao Strom, speaks about her work and shares from her latest offering; Tender Revolutions. Marque Gilmore returns to Brooklyn for two nights. He talks with our newest producer, Gail Ward, and Maestro Jay Rodriguez Sierra.| Listen & Be Heard Network
Fifty years after the fall of Saigon, Dao Strom’s Tender Revolutions / Yellow Songs vibrates with the ramifications and ripples of Empire. A hybrid project comprised of writings, music, and visual ephemera, each of the four Yellow Songs books and the Tender Revolutions album reckon with the intimate consequences of the colonial project, reconfiguring them into complex and lucid, literal and figurative songs of selfhood. Embodied, critical, wholehearted, collective, personal, genre-def...| Listen & Be Heard Network
Internationally acclaimed drummer/percussionist; future-music & live electronic music performance pioneer; professional international solo artist, producer, arranger and innovative cultural arts practitioner; Musical/Creative Director for the music/multi-media performance project DRUM-FM and Stockholm-based live arts-education organization and interactive concept-club KULT-U-REAL™.| Listen & Be Heard Network
Dao Strom is a poet, musician, writer, and interdisciplinary artist who works with three “voices”—written, sung, visual—to explore hybridity and the intersection of personal and collective histories. She is the author/composer of several hybrid-literary works, including...| Listen & Be Heard Network
Judy Talaugon is a co-producer and host of Beyond Borders and a founder of The Tribunal Project. Today we take the time for everyone to get to know Judy and her work better, a sort of serious girlfriend hour with Martha Cinader. Please join the conversation below!| Listen & Be Heard Network
This remarkably timely, clear, concise, and pressing intervention is a must read for all organizers and activists fighting for and witnessing the birth of a new world. Shaka A. Shakur’s latest book reaffirms, amplifies, and extends the theory and practice of the New Afrikan Independence Movement while offering an accessible entry point for those unfamiliar with the tradition and its continued relevance. From the Republic of New Afrika to Palestine bridges any historical gaps in the strugg...| Listen & Be Heard Network
Andrew Lam reads Grandma's Tales, from Watermark, and talks with Martha about his life now after journalism. Charlie Rosario talks about selling his first album cover to Tito Puente, and jams with Jay and Chris Theberge. More from the round table discussion at Shapeshifter Lab in Brooklyn, NY with Matthew Garrison, Fortuna Sung and Gail Ward.| Listen & Be Heard Network
The past plays itself out in surprising ways in the lives of people who thought they had moved beyond the nightmares of war and exodus. It comes back on TV in the form of a confession from a cannibal; it enters the Vietnamese restaurant as a Vietnam Vet with a shameful secret; it articulates itself in the peculiar tics of a man with Tourette’s Syndrome who struggles to deal with a profound tragedy. Birds of Paradise Lost is an emotional tour de force, intricately rendering the false starts ...| Listen & Be Heard Network
In his long-overdue first collection of essays, noted journalist and NPR commentator Andrew Lam explores his lifelong struggle for identity as a Viet Kieu, or a Vietnamese national living abroad. At age eleven, Lam, the son of a South Vietnamese general, came to California on the eve of the fall of Saigon to communist forces. He traded his Vietnamese name for a more American one and immersed himself in the allure of the American dream: something not clearly defined for him or his family. Refl...| Listen & Be Heard Network
At times humorous and ecstatic, other times poetic and elegiac, the fourteen pieces in Stories from the Edge of the Sea explore love and loss, lust and grief, longing and heartbreaks through the lives of Vietnamese immigrants and their children in California.| Listen & Be Heard Network
Charlie Rosario is a graphic designer, visual artist, drummer and poet of Puerto Rican parentage who was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1950. In the late 1960s he began his career in Latin album cover art with a psychedelic painting for Tito Puente (The King Tito Puente / El Rey Tito Puente, Tico Records, 1969), for which he was paid 95.00 but never given credit.| Listen & Be Heard Network
Andrew Lam fled Vietnam with his family during the fall of Saigon in April 1975 when he was eleven years old. He attended the University of California, Berkeley, studying biochemistry, but abandoned plans for medical school after graduation.| Listen & Be Heard Network
Our featured poet is Deepika Singh. Tony Robles talks with award winning biographer and essayist, Megan Marshall, author of After Lives. An L&BH exclusive, the world premiere of Cairo in the Rain, by Jay Rodriguez Sierra, recorded live in Cairo and featuring Egyptian vocalist Abdelrahman Blala. More stream poetry from Martha...| Listen & Be Heard Network
Fortuna was born in Hong Kong in an artistic family. Father John Chia Wen Sung was a film director, a producer and an educator. Mother was an actress. When Fortuna was 12 years old, she moved to Rome, Italy with her family where her father received an education in classical music and film.| Listen & Be Heard Network
Fortuna was born in Hong Kong in an artistic family. Father John Chia Wen Sung was a film director, a producer and an educator. Mother was an actress. When Fortuna was 12 years old, she moved to Rome, Italy with her family where her father received an education in classical music and film.| Listen & Be Heard Network
Born 1970 in New York, Matthew Garrison, along with his mother Roberta Escamilla Garrison and sister Maia Claire Garrison, spent the first seven years of his life immersed in a community of musicians, dancers, writers, visual artists and poets. After the death of his father Jimmy Garrison (John Coltrane’s bassist), his family relocated to Rome, Italy where he began to study piano and bass guitar. In 1988 Matthew returned to the United States and lived with his godfather Jack DeJohnette for...| Listen & Be Heard Network
Martha Cinader, Judy Talaugon and Jay Rodriguez Sierra are joined by Seth Donnelly, Anna Marie Stanberg and Kyle Stoneman in a roundtable discussion about the goals of Taxpayers Against Genocide and the September 4th Protest for Justice in Foley Square.| Listen & Be Heard Network
Martha talks with Eileen Tabios about The Balikbayan Artist, Venancio Igarta, who her Kapwa novel fictionalizes, artistic choices and Kendrick Lamar’s historic half time appearance at the Super Bowl. Also featured, Nick Courtright, of Atmosphere Press, a literary hybrid publisher with 1300 titles in its catalog.| Listen & Be Heard Network
Our featured poet is Deepika Singh. Tony Robles talks with award winning biographer and essayist, Megan Marshall, author of After Lives. An L&BH exclusive, the world premiere of Cairo in the Rain, by Jay Rodriguez Sierra, recorded live in Cairo and featuring Egyptian vocalist Abdelrahman Blala. More stream poetry from Martha...| Listen & Be Heard Network
Two months before he died, renowned literary critic Anatole Broyard called his grown son and daughter to his side to impart a secret he had kept all their lives and most of his own: he was black. Born in the French Quarter in 1920, Anatole had begun to conceal his racial identity after his family moved to Brooklyn and his parents resorted to "passing" in order to get work. As he grew older and entered the ranks of the New York literary elite, he maintained the facade.| Listen & Be Heard Network
In each of six essays, Marshall reinvents the personal essay form, as a portal to the past and its lessons for living into the future. The book’s brilliant, assured interplay between memoir and biography places surprising characters on the page, including the twelfth-century Buddhist hermit Kamo no Chomei, a reassuring spiritual presence for Marshall during several otherwise deracinating months in Kyoto. In her stunning coming-of-age tale, “Free for a While,” set in 1970s California,...| Listen & Be Heard Network
Deepika Singh is an Indian native from Margherita, Assam. By profession, a teacher. She is a budding poetess. Her writings are a reflection of the everyday experiences she has. She thinks the correct words have the power to transform our culture. Her works were featured in various national and international publications.| Listen & Be Heard Network
Megan Marshall is the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Margaret Fuller: A New American Life as well as Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast and The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism, a Pulitzer Prize finalist.| Listen & Be Heard Network
Martha speaks with writer, Vi Khi Nao, and artist Trinh Mai, contributor and cover artist to the 25th anniversary edition of Watermark, published by Texas Tech University Press. In the second half: Groove Collective live at Prospect Park and Breathe Ensemble live in Waryas Park, and some poetry of course...| Listen & Be Heard Network
A tragic first date. An evicted fetus. A restaurant called Sapphở. The flu. Argiope spiders. A room. The sea. Body parts as clothing. A long poem. A short one. A long one. Flipping like Morse signals, the poems in this collection gather under the pregnant arc of the bell curve in four quadrants that gestate desire. They scatter and sprawl across the page, or shrink in demure bundles, become pen-and-ink drawings, become lists, perform a termite insurrection against style.| Listen & Be Heard Network
Trinh Mai is a second-generation Vietnamese American visual artist who examines the refugee and immigrant experience, then and now. Through a vast breath of media, she helps tell the stories of we, the enduring People, while focusing on our witnessing of war, ...| Listen & Be Heard Network
Vi Khi Nao is a multidisciplinary writer working across poetry, fiction, theater, film, and collaborative art. She won the 2016 Nightboat Poetry Prize for The Old Philosopher and the 2017 Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize for A Brief Alphabet of Torture. Her latest novel, The Italy Letters, was published by Melville House.| Listen & Be Heard Network
Remix Volume 4: a timely blend of some of our guests from Seasons 1 and 2, and new music and poetry from Jay and Martha. Our featured guests in order of appearance, Kim McMillon, Tony Robles, Joe Talaugon, Jen Soriano, Opal Palmer Adisa, Joan Gelfand, Mosab Abu Toha, David Jauss, Yvette Murray.| Listen & Be Heard Network
In "Hush, Puppy" a neighborhood, a city and memories are more than just a neighborhood, a city and memories. "Hush, Puppy" is a call and response praise song to the antimony of being Black and Gullah and Southern in Charleston, South Carolina and the world. This chapbook explores familial, societal and community relationships with spice and a dash of humor. "Hush, Puppy" braids love and wrath into one lyrical plait. Meet "Hush, Puppy" at the intersection of the past and the future, sip the bi...| Listen & Be Heard Network
Yvette R. Murray is an award-winning poet and writer. She has been published in Chestnut Review, Emrys Journal, Litmosphere, A Gathering Together, and others. She is the 2022 Susan Laughter Meyers Poetry Fellow, a 2021 Best New Poet selection, a Watering Hole Fellow, and a Pushcart Prize nominee. She is a board member of the South Carolina Writer’s Association and the Poetry Society of South Carolina, and a member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators. Find her on Twitt...| Listen & Be Heard Network
Diverse and multi-genre, Opal Palmer Adisa, is an exceptional talent, nurtured on cane-sap and the oceanic breeze of Jamaica. Currently the Director of the Institute for Gender and Development Studies at the University of West Indies.| Listen & Be Heard Network
Lan Duong is Associate Professor in Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Treacherous Subjects: Gender, Culture, and Trans-Vietnamese Feminism and coeditor of Southeast Asian Women in the Diaspora: Troubling Borders in Literature and Art. Her poetry has appeared in Watermark: Vietnamese American Poetry and Prose, Bold Words: Asian American Writing to Span the Centuries and Tilting the Continent: Southeast Asian American Writing.| Listen & Be Heard Network
Martha Cinader, Judy Talaugon and Jay Rodriguez Sierra are joined by Arnoldo García, community-based poet, musician, visual artist, human rights organizer and dedicated restorative justice practitioner/trainer. The conversation begins with a comparison between west coast and east coast activism. It progresses from there to land based activism, and the difference between the idea of an immigrant worker and a displaced indigenous person. It ends with a discussion about the role of art and arti...| Listen & Be Heard Network
Our featured guest is Mark Talbert, author of Your Yard is a Garden. Our featured poets are Mary Oishi, Kellie Richardson, Josiah Luis Alderete, Homer Erotic and Blagovesta Momchedjikova. New music and poetry by Jay Rodriguez Sierra and Martha Cinader.| Listen & Be Heard Network
Mark graduated from the University of Kentucky with a Master's Degree in Agriculture. He served twenty-nine years as a county agent for Clemson University Extension Service in three counties with responsibilities in horticulture, agriculture and 4-H. He taught Master Gardeners and Pesticide Management. He wrote weekly/monthly articles for local and State Newspapers,| Listen & Be Heard Network
Our featured guest is music historian, Preston Lauterbach, author of Before Elvis: The African American Musicians Who Made the King, interviewed by Tony Robles. Our featured poet is Latasha Diggs. New music by Jay Rodriguez Sierra, and new poetry by Martha Cinader, also featuring Joseph Jason Santiago Lacour and Mary Oishi.| Listen & Be Heard Network
Preston Lauterbach is author of the American music classic The Chitlin’ Circuit (2011) and the history of the main street of Black America, Beale Street Dynasty (2015). His latest, Before Elvis: The African American Musicians Who Made the King published in January of 2025.| Listen & Be Heard Network
After Baz Luhrmann's movie, Elvis, hit theaters, audiences and critics alike couldn't help but question the Black origins of Elvis Presley's music and style, reigniting a debate that has been circling for decades. In Before Elvis: The African American Musicians Who Made the King, author Preston Lauterbach answers these questions definitively, based on new research and extensive, previously unpublished interviews with the artists who blazed the way and the people who knew them.| Listen & Be Heard Network
Martha Cinader, Judy Talaugon and Jay Rodriguez Sierra are joined by Craig S. Harris, a trombonist, composer, bandleader, and gifted sonic shaman.| Listen & Be Heard Network
Listen & Be Heard Remix Volume Three: a timely blend of our guests reading from their work, highlights from previous episodes, and a few surprises.| Listen & Be Heard Network
Listen & Be Heard Remix Volume Two: a timely blend of our guests reading from their work, highlights from previous episodes, and a few surprises.| Listen & Be Heard Network
Monica Macansantos is a 2024-2025 Shearing Fellow at the Black Mountain Institute in Las Vegas, and was recently named a 2025 Marguerite and Lamar Smith Fellow at the Carson McCullers Center in Columbus, Georgia. She is the author of the essay collection, Returning to My Father's Kitchen (Northwestern University Press/Curbstone Books, May 2025) and the story collection, Love and Other Rituals (Grattan Street Press, 2022).| Listen & Be Heard Network
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
Richard Clements is a pianist. In the early 1980’s, he moved to New York City to pursue his Jazz studies with Jazz master pianist Barry Harris. In 1997 Richard joined Archie Shepp n Paris.| Listen & Be Heard Network
Donna Janell Bowman, co-author of Wings of an Eagle, poetry of Suzette Clark Bradshaw on Charlottesville and Gaza. C.L. Willis on being Appalachian...| Listen & Be Heard Network
Your Yard Is a Garden, Sustainable Gardening For: Landscaping, Lawns, Shrubs, Trees and Produce Is a comprehensive gardening book for beginner gardeners through experience gardeners.| Listen & Be Heard Network
In this striking debut, Dorsía Smith Silva explores the devastating effects of Hurricane María in Puerto Rico...| Listen & Be Heard Network
A vital collection of essays on the power of literature and the craft of writing from an international array of writers of color...| Listen & Be Heard Network
C. L. (Cecil) Willis, a native of Canton, North Carolina, is professor emeritus of sociology and criminology at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. After retiring, he moved back to his beloved Southern Appalachian mountains. He lives with his daughter, son-in-law, and two grandchildren in Alexander outside Asheville, NC. Hillbilly Odyssey is his first book.| Listen & Be Heard Network
Suzette Clark Bradshaw from western North Carolina, is a self-taught poet and sculptress. Her poems have appeared in Dead Mule, Branches, Women Speak, and more.| Listen & Be Heard Network
Long before he was our beloved 16th president, Abraham Lincoln was known for his smarts and his knee-slapping humor.| Listen & Be Heard Network
William “Doc” Key, a formerly-enslaved, self-taught veterinarian and entrepreneur, believed that kindness was more powerful than cruelty.| Listen & Be Heard Network
Donna Janell Bowman is an award-winning author of books for young readers, including Wings of an Eagle: The Gold Medal Dreams of Billy Mills, co-authored with Olympian Billy Mills| Listen & Be Heard Network
Martha talks with Jonathan Thirkield author of Infinity Pool. Our new co-host, Judy Talaugon talks about The Tribunal Project. We persist in resisting book banning.| Listen & Be Heard Network
The Mind is neither large nor small; it is located neither within nor without. It should not be thought about by the mind nor be discussed by the mouth. Ordinarily, it is said that we use the Mind to transmit the Mind, or that we use the Mind to seal the Mind.| Listen & Be Heard Network
Sonny Rollins is one of the towering masters of American music, a virtuoso of the saxophone, and an unequaled improviser whose live performances are legendary| Listen & Be Heard Network
Black Mystery School Pianists and Other Writings is a collection of essays and prose poems from acclaimed pianist and visionary Matthew Shipp.| Listen & Be Heard Network
Elizabeth has a BA in Media Arts and a Masters in Transformative Arts, the study of creative expression for healing, connection, and growth. She is also a certified Group Leader in The Amherst Writing Method. Before launching TIWP in 2013, Elizabeth worked for over a decade as a graphic designer and art director in the advertising industry.| Listen & Be Heard Network
Julie Ezelle Patton is the author of The Flower Poem (Tender Buttons, 2024), Notes for Some (Nominally) Awake (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, 2007), and “Car Tune” & Not So Bella Donna (Belladonna*, 2003).| Listen & Be Heard Network
Judy Talaugon is a Chumash and Filipina Land Protector from the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians. She is the daughter of farmworkers and immigrant leaders.| Listen & Be Heard Network
Jonathan Thirkield is a poet and digital artist. He is the author of two collections—Infinity Pool and The Waker’s Corridor.| Listen & Be Heard Network
Listen & Be Heard Remix Volume Two: a timely blend of our guests reading from their work, highlights from previous episodes, and a few surprises.| 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
MOSAB ABU TOHA is a Palestinian poet, short-story writer, and essayist from Gaza. His first collection of poetry, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry and won the Palestine Book Award, the American Book Award, and the Walcott Poetry Prize. Abu Toha is also the founder of the Edward Said Library in Gaza, which he hopes to rebuild. He recently won an Overseas Press Club Award for his “Letter from Gaza” columns for The New...| Listen & Be Heard Network
Tony Robles speaks with David Jauss, Author of The Craft of Fiction. We feature poetry by Badawi, read by Sun Ra. We remember and listen to Nikki Giovanni. Also, Christy Lowman, Leila McMichael, Margaret Langley, Marissa Eller and Michael Hardy speak during Authors Day at the Morganton Public Library.| Listen & Be Heard Network
Martha Cinader speaks with author Laura Lengnick in this replay of our Winter Climate Special. The conversation ranges from alternatives to capitalism to Earth's best practices. Laura is an award-winning soil scientist with 30 years of experience working as a researcher, policymaker, educator, activist and farmer to put sustainability values into action in U.S. food and farming.| Listen & Be Heard Network
Tony Robles interviews author William Giraldi (Hold the Dark and The Hero's Body.) Their conversation ranges from manhood and body building to the masculinity of speed. We celebrate poetry month with Tony Robles, Joseph Jason Santiago Lacour, Tommi Avicolli Mecca and Sabrena Taylor. Martha Cinader on the path to publication.| Listen & Be Heard Network
s2e38 Big Business on Your Bookshelf, Authors Day at the Library. Martha speaks with Dan Sinykin about Big Fiction, How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature. Tony Robles visits novelist, Beth Revis, and poet, Kyra Freeman, at Morganton Public Library in North Carolina. Also, we persist in resisting book bans and give thanks for your community radio station.| Listen & Be Heard Network
Beth Revis is an internationally acclaimed bestselling author with books available in more than 20 languages and has toured internationally to meet her fans. Five of her novels have listed in the NY Times, including her most recent title, the co-authored romantasy Night of the Witch. Beth primarily writes science fiction and fantasy for both adults and young adults. She’s written two novels for Star Wars, including the fan-beloved The Princess and the Scoundrel.| Listen & Be Heard Network
Tales and legends of ghosts and haunted places follow the Yadkin River as it meanders through Historic Happy Valley, a part of the Yadkin Valley, which runs from Patterson to Elkin in western North Carolina. Haunted Historic Happy Valley explores the paranormal history of the Valley, and the surrounding region, all of which is haunted. Many of the stories take place along scenic, historic NC Hwy 268. The book is presented in as chronological a manner as possible, and addresses hauntings in th...| Listen & Be Heard Network
Words Made Flesh contains six essays by the award-winning fiction writer David Jauss, each of which challenges current reigning dogmas about the craft of fiction. As in his previous collection, Alone with All that Could Happen, Jauss takes a descriptive rather than a prescriptive approach to his subjects. Whereas many craft books tell writers what they should do, Words Made Flesh describes what great writers of the past and present have actually done and thus expands our understanding of the ...| Listen & Be Heard Network
A phenomenally fun novella that kicks off a trilogy of sexy space heists by New York Times bestselling author Beth Revis. Full Speed to a Crash Landing is packed with great characters, romantic tension, and is full of twists and turns that will keep you guessing until the end Fans of Martha Wells and Becky Chambers will devour this sizzling heist turned rom-com told from the point of view of a sarcastic and witty space scavenger Ada Lamarr may have gotten to the spaceship wreck first, but loo...| Listen & Be Heard Network
Poet and storyteller Kyra Freeman is like the little Dutch boy with her finger placed in a dam of imagery and intense emotion. Little Spills and Other Poems I Cannot Contain takes the reader from the ordinary to the sacred. As delicately as a spider weaves her web, Freeman weaves poetry expertly, intuitively, building a narrative of quiet nature and everyday noticing, to great heartbreak, an unfettered lyricism that is both vulnerable and compelling. Freeman speaks of the little match girl an...| Listen & Be Heard Network
We listen to highlights from previous climate resilience specials with authors Laura Lengnick, Resilient Agriculture, and Meredith Leigh, The Ethical Meat Handbook. Martha Cinader adds personal comments about changing behavior and recommends books. Poetry by Vanessa Lee Miller. Music by Baba Brinkman and DJ’s for Climate Action.| Listen & Be Heard Network
PEN America recently reported that “the movement to ban books is driven by a vocal minority, demanding censorship. A 2022 poll conducted by the American Library Association found that over 70% of p…| Listen & Be Heard Network
Open Mic 7-9pm, Democracy Minute, Anna Jinja, Green News Report, Nuestra Música, Box of Visions| Listen & Be Heard Network
Democracy Minute, Olympics History, Earth Riot Radio, Indiginous in Music & Americana| Listen & Be Heard Network
Le Show, American Democracy Minute, July 24 Palestine Action, the L&BH Hour, Visiting the Black History Museum in Charlotte, SC.| Listen & Be Heard Network
Arts & Culture Summit in CA, Bike Talk, Netanyahu Action at US Capitol, Green News Report, Blues, R&B, Dr. Tonee Moll - Poet, L&BH Hour| Listen & Be Heard Network
In a world full of things that are stressing us out and eroding our health, sound baths increase our resilience. I tell my clients all the time that ANYTHING that decreases their stress improves their health. Take a sound bath my friend!| Listen & Be Heard Network
Tony Robles talks with JOSIAH LUIS ALDERETE, poet and operator of Medicine For Nightmares Bookstore in SF, and JOE TALAUGON, author of the memoir Mestizo Through My Eyes. Alderete shares his poem “Somos” and some choice words about banning books. Martha shares a garden update and thoughts on native wisdom.| Listen & Be Heard Network
