On Monday, March 18th, Talking Earth will feature Casey Bush channelling the surrealistic voice of Marty Christensen (1942-2012). Casey will read from his own work as well as Marty's posthumous collection "Are Nightmares Prose or Poetry?" Casey Bush is a long time Portland Poet and currently a Senior Editor of The Bear Deluxe, the Northwest's finest environmental arts magazine.

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On Tuesday March 19th at 11.30 a.m., Joseph Gallivan will interview Portland artist James Minden  about his current exhibition of handmade holograms titled Real / Unreal.  

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In this episode:

• Dr. Tom Potiowsky talks with Jimmy about the Federel Reserve
• William Daniels talks about money vs. economics
• We get to know Ron Paul a little better
• Portland Rising Tide educates us about Portland's 5 top polluters
• Music from Aro Veno
• We highlight some important documentaries that you need to see

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Host Justin Miller interviews Calvin Trillin, The Nation's "deadline poet." He has been acclaimed in fields of writing that are remarkably diverse. As someone who has published solidly reported pieces in The New Yorker for forty years, he has been called "perhaps the finest reporter in America." His wry commentary on the American scene and his books chronicling his adventures as a "happy eater" have earned him renown as "a classic American humorist."

TONIGHT, join Paula the Small as she welcomes Portland-born film director and writer, Mischa Webley to discuss his debut feature-length film The Kill Hole. After the interview, she will share music from around the globe, so you can get ready for the pre-weekend party!

Playwrite

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Learn about PlayWrite, a local non-profit founded 10 years ago which works with youth ‘at the edge’ to create original plays, powerful vehicles through which the voices of young people are heard. We welcome in the studio Lyndsay Hogland, program director, Alyson Osborne, coach/actor  and Ryder Lynn and Francesca, 2 young women who recently participated in a play writing workshop.

"PlayWrite coaches are drawn from the Oregon theater community, and are trained to work one-on-one with each young person. Within the intense structured activities of PlayWrite workshops, these young writers create original art. In the process, they learn to trust, manage, and heal their own emotional experiences; to work collaboratively; and to contribute positively to their communities.

It's a special mostly unplugged version of SOUNDS UNSOUND as we listen to FREAK FOLK and related stuff like Anti-Folk, Psych-Folk, New Weird Americas and more..   

What the hell is "Freak Folk?" Also known as Free Folk or avant folk, this confusingly-defined genre arose about a decade ago, inspried by 1960s acid folk and hippy culture revivification. On Sounds Unsound we travel to the extreme ends of Freak Folk and experimental acoustic music, with contemporary material as well stuff from the 1960s and 70s that inspired it.