s3e36 Remix Volume 7
by Martha Cinader & Jay Rodriguez Sierra
s3e36
December 11, 2025
Remix Volume 7 features Barbara Tran, Candelario Obeso, Eileen Tabios, Vi Khi Nao, Freda Epum, Martha Cinader, Hazel Smith, Megan Marshall, Monica Maconsantos, Mary Oishi, Vida Cruz Borja, Tony Robles, Olivia Eggena, Joseph Jason Santiago Lacour, Trinh Mai, Brian Kimmel, Cal Hoffman, Henry Dumas, Caroline Cabading, Blagovesta Momchedjikova, Pying Threadgill and Mosab Abu Toha
CREDITS– HOSTS: Martha Cinader, Tony Robles. FEATURED GUESTS: Barbara Tran, Candelario Obeso, Eileen Tabios, Vi Khi Nao, Freda Epum, Martha Cinader, Hazel Smith, Megan Marshall, Monica Maconsantos, Mary Oishi, Vida Cruz Borja, Tony Robles, Olivia Eggena, Joseph Jason Santiago Lacour, Trinh Mai, Brian Kimmel, Cal Hoffman, Henry Dumas, Caroline Cabading, Blagovesta Momchedjikova, Pying Threadgill and Mosab Abu Toha. ORIGNAL SOUNDTRACK, MIXING, MASTERING, SOUND DESIGN: Jay Rodriguez Sierra.
FEATURED GUESTS
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Barbara Tran – Author, Editor
Read more: Barbara Tran – Author, EditorBarbara Tran is an immigrant. And a settler. She writes in multiple genres. Her debut poetry book, Precedented Parroting, is a Finalist for the 2024 Governor General’s Literary Award. She is currently at work in collaboration with Jacqueline Hoàng Nguyễn on the screenplay for Nguyễn’s debut feature film.
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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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Cal Hoffman – Author
Read more: Cal Hoffman – AuthorCAL HOFFMAN is a writer, educator, and actor. He graduated from Catholic University and attended the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London, as well as the MFA Fiction Writing Program at Columbia University. He has taught English and creative writing to children of immigrants, private school students, and young people in foster care.
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Caroline Cabading – Vocalist, Percussionist, Composer, Educator
Read more: Caroline Cabading – Vocalist, Percussionist, Composer, EducatorCaroline Cabading, a 4th-generation San Franciscan, is an actively performing jazz and R&B vocalist, indigenous Philippine percussionist, composer and traditional arts educator with over 20 years experience performing, touring and teaching. She has been commissioned by the San Francisco Arts Commission (2016, 2018, 2020, 2022) the California Arts Council (2018, 2020, 2022), Zoo Labs (2021)…
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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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Freda Epum- The Gloomy Girl Variety Show
Read more: Freda Epum- The Gloomy Girl Variety ShowFreda Ndidi Epum (Free-duh Nn-dee-dee Ay-poom) is a Nigerian-American writer, artist, and consultant from Tucson, AZ. Her work has been published in The Rumpus, Electric Literature, Vol 1. Brooklyn, Entropy, Bending Genres, Cosmonauts Avenue, Heavy Feather Review, Nat.Brut, Third Coast, Atticus Review, Rogue Agent, and the 2020 Bending Genres Anthology. She received her MFA from Miami University…
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Mary Oishi – Poet / Author
Read more: Mary Oishi – Poet / AuthorMary Oishi was the child of an American soldier and a Japanese bride from World War II. She grew up with her father’s relatives in a white supremacist enclave in rural Pennsylvania until finally reuniting with her mother in 1987. Since arriving in Albuquerque in 1999, she has performed and published poetry “in the spirit…
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Megan Marshsall – Biographer, Essayist
Read more: Megan Marshsall – Biographer, EssayistMegan Marshall is the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Margaret Fuller: A New American Life as well as Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast and The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism, a Pulitzer Prize finalist.
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Monica Macansantos – Author
Read more: Monica Macansantos – AuthorMonica Macansantos is a 2024-2025 Shearing Fellow at the Black Mountain Institute in Las Vegas, and was recently named a 2025 Marguerite and Lamar Smith Fellow at the Carson McCullers Center in Columbus, Georgia. She is the author of the essay collection, Returning to My Father’s Kitchen (Northwestern University Press/Curbstone Books, May 2025) and the story collection, Love and Other Rituals (Grattan Street Press,…
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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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Pyeng Threadgill – vocalist, composer, author, video artist, and voice and movement teacher
Read more: Pyeng Threadgill – vocalist, composer, author, video artist, and voice and movement teacherPyeng Threadgill is an American vocalist, composer, author, video artist, and voice and movement teacher. With a deep belief in the transformative power of music and movement, she creates what she calls New Porch Music. Drawing on the musical traditions of the African Diaspora—from Black American Folk and Soul to Jazz and improvisation—Pyeng uses her…
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Trinh Mai – Multi-media Artist
Read more: Trinh Mai – Multi-media ArtistTrinh Mai is a second-generation Vietnamese American visual artist who examines the refugee and immigrant experience, then and now. Through a vast breath of media, she helps tell the stories of we, the enduring People, while focusing on our witnessing of war, …
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Vi Khi Nao – Poet, Writer
Read more: Vi Khi Nao – Poet, WriterVi Khi Nao is a multidisciplinary writer working across poetry, fiction, theater, film, and collaborative art. She won the 2016 Nightboat Poetry Prize for The Old Philosopher and the 2017 Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize for A Brief Alphabet of Torture. Her latest novel, The Italy Letters, was published by Melville House.
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Vida Cruz-Borja – Fantasy and Science Fiction Author
Read more: Vida Cruz-Borja – Fantasy and Science Fiction AuthorVida Cruz-Borja is a Filipina fantasy and science fiction writer, editor, artist, tarot reader, and conrunner. Her short fiction and essays have been published in F&SF, Fantasy, Strange Horizons, PodCastle, Expanded Horizons, and various anthologies. She won the 2022 IGNYTE Award for Best Creative Nonfiction for “We are the Mountain: A Look at the Inactive…
FEATURED BOOKS
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A Bell Curve is a Pregnant Straight Line – Vi Khi Nao
Read more: A Bell Curve is a Pregnant Straight Line – Vi Khi NaoA tragic first date. An evicted fetus. A restaurant called Sapphở. The flu. Argiope spiders. A room. The sea. Body parts as clothing. A long poem. A short one. A long one. Flipping like Morse signals, the poems in this collection gather under the pregnant arc of the bell curve in four quadrants that gestate…
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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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Candelario Obeso – Cantos populares de mi tierra
Read more: Candelario Obeso – Cantos populares de mi tierraCandelario Obeso was an Afro-Colombian poet known as the precursor of the Poesía Negra y oscura (black and dark poetry) in Colombia, a literary style that focused on describing the daily activities performed by the Colombian black communities. He wrote his narrative in the first person and using the language the Afrocolombian communities spoke.
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Easy to Slip – Cal Hoffman
Read more: Easy to Slip – Cal HoffmanSam Kovner reads messages on walls and hears voices in the hall, and wonders: if you find yourself losing your mind, how do you get well? Winter, 1976, Columbia University. Hearing voices and seeing hateful writing on walls, early admission Sam Kovner walks the New York streets, sleepless thirty-six hours.
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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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Freda Epum – The Gloomy Girl Variety Show
Read more: Freda Epum – The Gloomy Girl Variety ShowIn The Gloomy Girl Variety Show, Freda Epum explores the opposing forces of her “no-place, no-where” identity as a Nigerian American daughter, diasporically displaced, who spent years in and out of institutions seeking treatment for life-threatening mental illness, revealing what it takes to find refuge in love, and reimagine home.
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Mary Oishi – Sidewalk Cruiseship
Read more: Mary Oishi – Sidewalk CruiseshipWritten by the “pandemic poet laureate” of Albuquerque, Sidewalk Cruiseship draws on Oishi’s remarkable ability to illustrate the world around her and the people in it. Separated into eleven short sections by traditional Japanese tankas, the poems in Oishi’s newest collection take on the macro and the micro. They respond to the pandemic, the war in Ukraine,…
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Megan Marshall, After Lives – On Biography and the Mysteries of the Human Heat
Read more: Megan Marshall, After Lives – On Biography and the Mysteries of the Human HeatIn each of six essays, Marshall reinvents the personal essay form, as a portal to the past and its lessons for living into the future. The book’s brilliant, assured interplay between memoir and biography places surprising characters on the page, including the twelfth-century Buddhist hermit Kamo no Chomei, a reassuring spiritual presence for Marshall during several…
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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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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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Pyeng Threadgill – Lost & Found
Read more: Pyeng Threadgill – Lost & FoundGrowing up in the 1980s, in the heart of New York City’s downtown music and art scene became fertile ground for seeds of creativity, doubt, and eventual empowerment for Pyeng Threadgill-as expressed through Lost & Found: Finding the Power in Your Voice, a collection of personal essays, poetry, and prose.
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Returning to My Father’s Kitchen – Monica Macansantos
Read more: Returning to My Father’s Kitchen – Monica MacansantosFeeling untethered after her beloved poet father passes away while she is living abroad, Monica Macansantos decides to return to the Philippines to regain her bearings. But with her father gone and her adult life rooted in the United States and New Zealand, can the land of her birth still serve as a place of…
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Sugilanon – Caroline Julia Cabading
Read more: Sugilanon – Caroline Julia Cabading“The word “sugilanon” means “story” in one of the Philippine ethno-linguistic groups of my family: the Cebuano language. For over 20 years now I’ve been studying the ancestral music, dance and epic poetry of various Philippine tribal groups and one art form in particular that resonated with me was the Epic Poem of the Kalinga…
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Taymour Soomro, Deepa Anappara – Letters to a Writer of Color
Read more: Taymour Soomro, Deepa Anappara – Letters to a Writer of ColorA vital collection of essays on the power of literature and the craft of writing from an international array of writers of color, sharing the experiences, cultural traditions, and convictions that have shaped them and their work.
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