Listen & Be Heard

Author: Tony Robles

  • wildflowers by Beverly Parayno

    wildflowers by Beverly Parayno

    The uncut video interview by Tony Robles in Hendersonville, NC who speaks with Beverly Parayno in Cameron Park, CA, about her book of short stories: wildflowers.

  • Gun Talk

    And here, 3000 miles away in the warehouse where I work, they are talking guns

  • Reebee dedoo dada

    The uncut video interview by Tony Robles, who speaks with multi-media artist Filey Matias, author of Reebee dedoo dada, Redhawk Publications, a story of song and the freedom to be oneself! Reebee, dedoo, dada is a book about bullying and how it takes a village to beat one.

  • Appalachian Memoir

    Appalachian Memoir

    Tony Robles interviews Jennifer McGaha about her memoir Flat Broke with Two Goats.

  • Fiction Twined with Memory

    Fiction Twined with Memory

    Tony Robles speaks with Ann Davila Cardinal, author of several young adult books, from her home in Vermont about her latest book, this one for adults: The Storyteller’s Death.

  • Las Flores

    Las Flores

    In Hendersonville a community comes out early Sunday morning to honor the earth, the soil; a place to plant songs and poetry and a vision of sharing and depending on one another. Our sustenence is the dream that is shared, a dream that is not owned by one person but collectively conceived.

  • Student Art on Display

    Student Art on Display

    The Arts Council of Henderson County showcased student artists grades 3 through 12 in its yearly contest on April 14th. The art showcase and contest was held at the Blue Ridge Mall in Hendersonville, North Carolina

  • Healing Love is What it’s About

    Healing Love is What it’s About

    Tony Robles speaks with Robert Zachary of the Healing Love Institute who shares life experience and poetry too.

  • Cardboard Poem Written on a Warehouse Wall

    Cardboard Poem Written on a Warehouse Wall

    Why not get into this box? it said, there’s enough room for you to get away, to hide I thought about it as I held a box cutter in my handsWhy not get into this box? it said, there’s enough room for you to get away, to hide I thought about it as I held…

  • Glenis Redmond, Poet Laureate of Greenville, SC

    Glenis Redmond, Poet Laureate of Greenville, SC

    Tony Robles sat down to talk with Glenis Redmond, the first poet laureate of Greenville, SC on Sunday, March 26. They had a wide-ranging conversation about Greenville, the Carolinas, writing, her books and her plans as the poet laureate.

  • Overheated Heart

    Overheated Heart

    I see the smoke in your car for a long time, the younger one says They get ouf of the truck and tell me to pop the hood

  • Review: A Gathering of the Tribes–The Black Lives Matter Issue

    Review: A Gathering of the Tribes–The Black Lives Matter Issue

    Memory is honored, the names of those slain by police held up in a light of poetry, the fire of strength raging from our streets to the page…

  • Warehouse

    Warehouse

    A poem by Tony Robles

  • Assembling a Wheelchair

    Assembling a Wheelchair

    And somewhere a wheel chair
is being put together while a
world tilts on its axis trying to
find its bearings

  • Open Heart

    Open Heart

    I just had open heart, he says We take the wheelchair from the bed of his  pickup and the man’s wife sits in the truck On the dashboard is a red pillow in the shape of a heart