s3e9 – Rewind – Listen & Be Heard Remix One
Zora Neal Hurston, Eileen Tabios, Blagovesta Momchedjikova, Khalil Gibran, Genny Lim, Brian Kimmel, Barbara Tran, Q.R. Hand jr., Martha CInader, Billy Mills, Mosab Abu Toha, Sun Ra, Henry Dumas, Tony RObles, Nikki Giovanni, Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway
s3e9 – Rewind
June 12, 2025
Listen & Be Heard Remix Volume One: a timely blend of our guests reading from their work, and other highlights from previous episodes.
CREDITS– HOST: Martha Cinader. FEATURED SPOKEN WORD: Zora Neal Hurston, Eileen Tabios, Blagovesta Momchedjikova, Khalil Gibran, Genny Lim, Brian Kimmel, Barbara Tran, Q.R. Hand jr., Martha CInader, Billy Mills, Mosab Abu Toha, Sun Ra, Henry Dumas, Tony RObles, Nikki Giovanni, Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway. ORIGNAL SOUNDTRACK, MIXING, MASTERING, SOUND DESIGN: Jay Rodriguez Sierra.
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Billy Mills – Athlete and Author
Read more: Billy Mills – Athlete and AuthorAt the 1964 Olympics, Billy Mills shocked the world and came from behind to win the gold medal in the 10,000 meters race. At the time, he set a world record of 28 minutes, 24.4 seconds and is still the only American to ever win a gold medal in the 10K event.
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Blagovesta Momchedjikova – Poet, Author, Professor
Read more: Blagovesta Momchedjikova – Poet, Author, ProfessorBlagovesta Momchedjikova, PhD, is a lover and writer of cities, who has been teaching at the Expository Writing Program at New York University since 1998. She is the editor of Captured By The City: Perspectives in Urban Culture Studies (2013) and Streetnotes: Urban Feel (2010); co-editor of Urban Habits (2025),
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Brian Kimmel – Author
Read more: Brian Kimmel – AuthorBrian Kimmel is a multiheritage Indonesian American, and grandchild to Pacific Northwest author, Martha Walandouw Lohn. He co-authored Lohn’s memoir, Blue Skies, Troubled Waters, and edited the first Indonesian language version. A poet, memoirist, lyricist, composer, musician, and scholar-practitioner, Kimmel guest lectures and recitals internationally on narrative technologies and the expressive arts.
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Craig Harris – Trombonist, Composer
Read more: Craig Harris – Trombonist, ComposerCraig Harris, trombonist, composer, bandleader, and sonic shaman. … his musical journey began with the Sun Ra, … place among creative music’s … leaders.
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Eileen R. Tabios
Read more: Eileen R. TabiosEileen R. Tabios has released collections of poetry, fiction, art, essays, and experimental writings from publishers around the world. Recent releases include her second novel The Balikbayan Artist; an autobiography, THE INVENTOR; a poetry collection Because I Love You, I Become War; an art monograph, Drawing the Six Directions; a flash fiction collection (in collaboration…
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Genny Lim – SF Poet Laureate
Read more: Genny Lim – SF Poet LaureateGenny Lim is an American poet, playwright, and performer. She is the ninth poet laureate of San Francisco, California, and the first Chinese American in the role.She was the Chair of Community Arts and Education Committee, and Chair of the Advisory Board for the San Francisco Writers Corps.
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Martha Cinader, Author, Performance Artist
Read more: Martha Cinader, Author, Performance ArtistMartha Cinader is an author and performance artist. She hosts and produces The Listen & Be Heard Hour for Reader & Writers, a non-commercial podcast, and a syndicated radio show on the Pacifica Affiliate Network. Originally from New York, she lives in Greenville, SC where she is the Director of Listen & Be Heard Radio.
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Monique Truong – Writer, Editor
Read more: Monique Truong – Writer, EditorMonique Truong is the Vietnamese American author of the bestselling, award-winning novels The Book of Salt, Bitter in the Mouth, and The Sweetest Fruits and the co-author of the children’s picture book Mai’s Áo Dài. She’s also a former refugee, essayist, avid eater, lyricist/librettist, and intellectual property attorney (more or less in this order).
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Mosab Abu Toha – Poet
Read more: Mosab Abu Toha – PoetMOSAB 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…
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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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Q.R. Hand Jr.
Read more: Q.R. Hand Jr.Quentin Roosevelt Hand, Jr. (1937 – December 31, 2020), known professionally as Q.R. Hand, was an African-American poet. Q. R. Hand, Jr. was born in Brooklyn, New York. He is the author of three poetry books, i speak to the poet in man (jukebox press, 1985), how sweet it is (Zeitgeist Press, 1996), and whose really blues, new & selected poems (Taurean…
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Tony Robles – Poet, Author
Read more: Tony Robles – Poet, AuthorTony Robles, “The People’s Poet” was born in San Francisco and is the nephew of Filipino-American poet, historian and social justice activist Al Robles. He was a shortlist nominee for poet laureate of San Francisco in 2017 and the recipient of the San Francisco Art Commission individual literary artist grant in 2018. His two books…
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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.
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Billy Mills, Donna Janell Bowman – Wings of an Eagle: The Gold Medal Dreams of Billy Mills
Read more: Billy Mills, Donna Janell Bowman – Wings of an Eagle: The Gold Medal Dreams of Billy MillsThis autobiographical retelling of Billy Mills’ journeys from being an orphan on Oglala Lakota Pine Ridge Reservation to his Gold Medal Win in the 10,000-meter race of the 1964 Toyoko Olympics. Inspired by this father’s words “the pursuit of a dream will heal you”, Billy was able to overcome poverty, racism, and severe health challenges to reach his goal and heal his heart.
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Brian Kimmel – Blue Skies, Troubled Waters
Read more: Brian Kimmel – Blue Skies, Troubled WatersBlue Skies, Troubled Waters, tells the story of twin sisters Ath and Kath, born in New Jersey, in 1933, whose family is deported to the Indonesia due to their father’s undocumented status. Their new life is shattered when, in 1941, Japan invades, and the family is imprisoned.
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Catholic Church, Papal Bulls – Doctrine of Discovery
Read more: Catholic Church, Papal Bulls – Doctrine of DiscoveryPapal Bulls issues in the 15th century provided Christian explorers the imagined right to assert that the lands they “discovered” were now under the authority of the Christian Monarchs of Europe. The Papal Bulls asserted that any land that was not inhabited by Christians was available to be “discovered”, claimed, and exploited.
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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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Eileen R. Tabios – The Balikbayan Artist
Read more: Eileen R. Tabios – The Balikbayan ArtistThe Balikbayan Artist– inspired by and dedicated to Venancio C. Igarta (1912- 2000), the real-life leading artist of the Manong Generation–
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Eileen R. Tabios – The Inventor, A Poet’s Transcolonial Autobiography
Read more: Eileen R. Tabios – The Inventor, A Poet’s Transcolonial AutobiographyEileen R. Tabios says, “Poetry is a decolonized language.” She proves it through her autobiography that begins with her first book that she wrote as a 2-3-year-old toddler and focuses on her poetry inventions: the hay(na)ku, the Murder Death Resurrection Poetry Generator, and the Flooid. This is a unique and thought-provoking autobiography by a poet…
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Genny Lim – Child of War
Read more: Genny Lim – Child of WarThese pages are filled with grieving and making sense of a mother’s loss of a child as the world once again finds itself in a state of war. In 2001, Genny Lim’s daughter, Danielle Mai Ting Jue, died at the age of 19.
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Him Mark Lai, Genny Lim and Judy Yung – Island
Read more: Him Mark Lai, Genny Lim and Judy Yung – IslandIn the early twentieth century, most Chinese immigrants coming to the United States were detained at the Angel Island Immigration Station in San Francisco Bay. There, they were subject to physical exams, interrogations, and often long detentions aimed at upholding the exclusion laws that kept Chinese out of the country.
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Kahlil Gibran – Tears and Laughter
Read more: Kahlil Gibran – Tears and LaughterThis classic work showcases the early brilliance and philosophical foundation of Kahlil Gibran, one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century
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Mosab Abu Toha – Forest of Noise
Read more: Mosab Abu Toha – Forest of Noise“A powerful, capacious, and profound” (Ocean Vuong) new collection of poems about life in Gaza by an award-winning Palestinian poet. Barely thirty years old, Mosab Abu Toha was already a well-known poet when the current siege of Gaza began. After the Israeli army bombed and destroyed his house, pulverizing a library he had painstakingly built…
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Po’azz Yo’azz – Living It!
Read more: Po’azz Yo’azz – Living It!Living It! is Martha Cinader’s debut as the producer of her own album, and features an eclectic array of arrangements and musical styles. It was recorded in part in a studio in New York City, part in a studio in Hamburg, and part live at the Mojo Club in Hamburg, throw in some bonus tracks…
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Precedented Parroting – Barbara Tran
Read more: Precedented Parroting – Barbara TranOpening with an exit, the poems in Precedented Parroting accept no assumptions. With the determination and curiosity of a problem-solving crow, this expansive debut plumbs personal archives and traverses the natural world, endeavouring to shake the tight cage of stereotypes, Asian and avian.
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Q.R. Hand Jr. – Whose Really Blues
Read more: Q.R. Hand Jr. – Whose Really BluesFrom the world’s leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees, their connections to one another and to other living things in the forest–a moving, deeply personal journey of discovery. “A vivid and compelling memoir of [Simard’s] lifelong quest to prove that the forest is more than just a collection of trees” – The New…
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Thrift Store Metamorphosis
Read more: Thrift Store MetamorphosisIn Thrift Store Metamorphosis, Tony Robles astutely demonstrates the palpable currency of human interactions. His keen observations show us the necessity of reflection. In this mirror, we learn that everything and anything that we pay attention to has the capability to hold deep meaningful lessons for us and our lives. Robles makes us feel a range of…
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Tony Robles – Where the Warehouse Things Are
Read more: Tony Robles – Where the Warehouse Things AreIn this remarkable collection, Tony Robles transforms a bright-lit warehouse into a psychic landscape to illuminate one man’s efforts to reassemble a broken life. Where the Warehouse Things Are gives the satisfaction of a book of poetry as well as a novelistic sense of a place and its inhabitants fully rendered. — Ron Rash, author…
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Watermark Vietnamese American Poetry and Prose
Read more: Watermark Vietnamese American Poetry and ProseEdited by Barbara Tran, Monique T.D. Truong and Luu Truong Khoi, Watermark: Vietnamese American Poetry & Prose (Asian American Writers’ Workshop, 1998) heralds a new era for Vietnamese American literature. Here, for the first time, the most innovative contemporary Vietnamese American writers explore thematic and stylistic territory previously overlooked in other collections, which have traditionally…
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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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