Poetry

Once Upon a Time

Airs at: Fri, 01/23/2026 at 7:00pm - 8:00pm
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Judith Barrington’s most recent book is Virginia’s Apple: Collected Memoirs (OSU Press, 2024). Heer previous memoir: Lifesaving: A Memoir was the winner of the Lambda Book Award and a finalist for the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir. Memoirs included in ... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for January 12, 2026

Airs at: Mon, 01/12/2026 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Nuclear deceptions, domestic terrorism, and the poetry of the long struggle: Frann Michel hosts this episode featuring these segments:  Nuclear Bamboozles:   While the Biden administration's Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) of 2022 provided increased federal funding for n... Read more

Buscando America on 01/06/26

Airs at: Tue, 01/06/2026 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm
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Programa musical con poemas y notas relevantes. Read more

Judith Arcana, 1943-2025, a Lifelong Troublemaker

The left community lost one of its stalwarts on winter solstice of 2025. Judith Arcana was a writer, poet, teacher and feminist activist. She is most well known for being one of the Janes, a pre-Roe, underground collective in Chicago that provided 11,000 illegal, but saf... Read more

Judith Arcana RIP

Airs at: Tue, 12/23/2025 at 5:30pm - 6:00pm
On the Winter Solstice, Judith Arcana transitioned to the ancestors. She was the host of Poetry and Everything” for about three and a half years, and before that was a guest on many KBOO programs. Thanks to Ken Jones, Ani and Lynn, the youth of The Underground, Jodi Darb... Read more

Oh Gee Pee Oh Gee on 12/21/25

Airs at: Sun, 12/21/2025 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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Odin Woden Wodanaz and The Winter Solstice On this episode of Oh Gee Pee Oh Gee we’re considering the Germanic god of poetic fury and how parts of the Poetic Edda can be read as an allegory for the winter solstice.We also listen back to a few of the tracks released in ... Read more

Black As Folk 11/03/2025

Airs at: Mon, 11/03/2025 at 11:00pm - Tue, 11/04/2025 at 12:00am
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Once Upon A Time

Airs at: Fri, 01/09/2026 at 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Produced for:  Once Upon a Time
David Rutiezer, the grandchild of Jewish immigrants, was raised in Illinois and Massachusetts, and lives in Portland, Oregon. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the Rainier Writing Workshop and a TESL certificate from Concordia University. David’s poems have been p... Read more

Talking Earth on 12/15/25--Penton, Sparling and raphael

Airs at: Mon, 12/15/2025 at 10:00pm - 11:00pm
Produced for:  Talking Earth
This program features Jonathan Penton, from New Orleans, Julie Sparling from Camas, and Portland's own dan raphael, who is also the host. Jonathan Penton founded the online journal Unlikely Stories in 1998, and still runs it as Editor-in-Chief. He is the Technical Directo... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for December 15, 2025

Airs at: Mon, 12/15/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Photo of Wall Art in Cypress: Image licensed for public use: https://pxhere.com/en/photo/809719 Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: Finding Home: Sisters of the Road and the Welcome Home Coalition conducted re... Read more