s3e10 Remix Volume 2
Zora Neal Hurston, Alejandro Murguía, Meredith Leigh, Alejandra Carros, JOSEPH JASON SANTIAGO LACOUR, Elaine Randall, Nikki GIovanni, Sandra Esteves, Sekou Sundiata, David Gonzalez, Guru, Alice Walker
s3e10
April 10, 2025
Listen & Be Heard Remix Volume Two: a timely blend of our guests reading from their work, highlights from previous episodes, and a few surprises.
CREDITS– HOSTS: Martha Cinader, Tony Robles. FEATURED SPOKEN WORD: Zora Neal Hurston, Alejandro Murguía, Meredith Leigh, Alejandra Carros, JOSEPH JASON SANTIAGO LACOUR, Elaine Randall, Nikki GIovanni, Sandra Esteves, Sekou Sundiata, David Gonzalez, Guru, Alice Walker. ORIGNAL SOUNDTRACK, MIXING, MASTERING, SOUND DESIGN: Jay Rodriguez Sierra.
FEATURED SPOKEN WORD
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Alejandro Murguía – Author, Poet Laureate
Read more: Alejandro Murguía – Author, Poet LaureateAlejandro Murguía is the author of Southern Front and This War Called Love (both winners of the American Book Award). His non-fiction book The Medicine of Memory highlights the Mission District in the 1970s during the Nicaraguan Solidarity movement. He is a founding member and the first director of The Mission Cultural Center.
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Alice Walker – Writer, Poet, Activist
Read more: Alice Walker – Writer, Poet, ActivistAlice Walker is an internationally celebrated writer, poet and activist whose books include seven novels, four collections of short stories, four children’s books, and volumes of essays and poetry. She won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction in 1983 and the National Book Award.
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Martha Cinader, Author, Performance Artist
Read more: Martha Cinader, Author, Performance ArtistMartha Cinader is a poet and author living in Harlem, NY. Her young adult novel, Marq and the Queen Fish, is forthcoming in 2026 from Atmosphere Press. Cinader is the founder and Director of the Listen & Be Heard Network, where she hosts and produces The Listen & Be Heard Hour, and Beyond Borders, both non-commercial podcasts and syndicated radio shows…
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Nikki Giovanni – Poet
Read more: Nikki Giovanni – Poet… I have been awarded … 7 NAACP Image Awards which makes me very very proud. I have been nominated for a Grammy; been a finalist for the National Book Award… authored 3 New York Times and Los Angeles Times Best Sellers, highly unusual for a poet.
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Zora Neale Hurston – Author, Anthropologist
Read more: Zora Neale Hurston – Author, AnthropologistI remember the very day that I became colored. Up to my thirteenth year I lived in the little Negro town of Eatonville, Florida. It is exclusively a colored town. The only white people I knew passed through the town going to or coming from Orlando.
FEATURED BOOKS
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Alejandro Murguía – The Medicine of Memory: A Mexica Clan in California
Read more: Alejandro Murguía – The Medicine of Memory: A Mexica Clan in CaliforniaIn this work of creative nonfiction, Murguía draws on memories—his own and his family’s reaching back to the eighteenth century—to (re)construct the forgotten Chicano-indigenous history of California. He tells the story through significant moments in California history, including the birth of the mestizo in Mexico, destruction of Indian lifeways
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Alejandro Murguía – This War Called Love
Read more: Alejandro Murguía – This War Called LoveFrom Mexico City to San Francisco’s Mission District, nothing comes easy—in life or in love. Here is an unstereotypical view of a world as treacherous as it is tender, as hilarious as it is heartbreaking. Authentic and honest, these nine stories focus on today’s Latino men, their strength and vulnerability, their fears and deepest desires.
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Dreamscape, Real Dreams Really Make a Difference
Read more: Dreamscape, Real Dreams Really Make a DifferenceA collection of biographical stories and poems about fascinating people in history whose real dreams made a real difference. Developed in performance, these stories bring old tales to life for contemporary readers in a way that is both entertaining and informative.
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Meredith Leigh – The Ethical Meat Handbook
Read more: Meredith Leigh – The Ethical Meat HandbookEthical Meat is meat from an animal that had a good life, a good death, a good butcher, and a good cook. Ethical Meat is a movement that seeks to repair entire regional meat supply chains, and much work is underway by brave hardworking farmers, butchers, processors, chefs and cooks. Working to create the capacity…
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When the Body Calls
Read more: When the Body CallsThis book is a vessel/holding liquid for thirsty desirers/in the empty spiral of the universe/where detail is opinion/one moment is all it takes to answer/when the body calls. This book is just one answer in a life of calling. The storyteller lives inside the breath of home. Whatever home is chosen, whatever breath is owned.…
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Zora Neale Hurston – Mules and Men
Read more: Zora Neale Hurston – Mules and MenZora Neale Hurston brings us Black America’s folklore as only she can, putting the oral history on the written page with grace and understanding. This new edition of Mules and Men features a new cover and a P.S. section which includes insights, interviews, and more.
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