Spoken Arts

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The Holy Crowley Hour

Airs at: Mon, 06/25/2018 at 11:00pm - Tue, 06/26/2018 at 12:00am
Produced for:  The Holy Crowley Hour
Welcome to the first  Holy Crowley Hour of Summer 2018. While Carl Crowley and I should be wearing flip flops, shades, and a Speedo, and playing the Beach Boys all night, we'll instead be focusing on radio theater, as is our wont. And wearing a Speedo. Only a Speedo. Tonig... Read more

Talking Earth with Dennis McBride and Mike G

Airs at: Mon, 06/18/2018 at 10:00pm - 11:00pm
Produced for:  Talking Earth
Tonight's edition of KBOO's spoken word show features Portland's premier satirist Dennis McBride and open mike instigator Mike G. Patrick Bocarde will attempt to host the proceedings.  Dennis McBride is a Portland-based free lance writer and loiterer. His work has appeared ... Read more

Interview with Cindy Williams-Gutierrez

Airs at: Mon, 06/25/2018 at 10:00pm - 11:00pm
Produced for:  Poetry and Everything
Poet-dramatist Cindy Williams-Gutierrez was awarded the 2018 Editor’s Choice Poetry Prize from Willow Books for Inlay with Nacre the Names of Forgotten Women which explores the contemporary oppression of women around the world. She received the 2017 Oregon Book Award for Dr... Read more

Sounds Unsound late June 2018

Airs at: Sun, 06/24/2018 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Sounds Unsound
Music, noise and other sounds. New releases and more. Read more

The Monday Sampler

Airs at: Mon, 06/11/2018 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for:  The Monday Sampler
Back for June, with all the regular crazy fun interviews and music, the Sampler Crew - Fortunato, Just Jess and PBK - try and make your first day of the work week better and more crazy! Starting today and continuing throughout the first part of summer, the Sampler will feat... Read more

From the "Black Book Talk" Vault: Poet Kwame Alexander

Airs at: Thu, 12/03/2020 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Black Book Talk
We reprise Emma Jackson Ford’s May, 2018 interview with poet Kwame Alexander and his musical accompanist, guitarist Randy Preston.  The interview focusses on Rebound, the follow-up to his Newbery medal-winning middle-grade novel, The Crossover. Alexander is a poet, educato... Read more

Mr. Jones's Neighborhood

Airs at: Fri, 03/30/2018 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
It took three months, but the first episode of Mr. Jones's Neighborhood for 2018 has finally arrived. What took us so long? We're not at liberty to say, other than Bob Mueller can be a stickler for detail. In any case, we think it's worth the wait. Our guests today are two ... Read more

Radio Lost & Found for 03/22/18

Airs at: Thu, 03/22/2018 at 10:00pm - Fri, 03/23/2018 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Radio Lost and Found
Radio Lost & Found returns after being gone for a long, long time.... Read more

Louly and Pretty Boy by Elmore Leonard

Airs at: Mon, 03/19/2018 at 11:00pm - Tue, 03/20/2018 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Gremlin Time
Tonight, a short story by Elmore Leonard, Louly and Pretty Boy. A young woman dreams of running away from home to join up with the famous bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd and finds that being a "gun mol" in depresion era Oklahoma is not as romantic as she had imagined. Plus, a ... Read more

Portland Jewish Hour

Airs at: Sun, 03/18/2018 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Portland Jewish Hour
Chaim Wolin will be conducting a live interview of Ani Tuzman about her new book, The Tremble of Love A Novel of the Baal Shem Tov.  Tune in to hear about some inspirational conversation, excerpts, and a bissele music.  Read more