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Today on WPVM Radio 3pm
Featuring an archival interview with Nora Okja Keller about her book Comfort Woman, interviews by Tony Robles, and poetry from at the Manilatown Heritage Foundation in San Francisco, talk about the craft and business of writing a short…
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Today on WPVM Radio
Please join host, Martha Cinader, for the Listen & Be Heard Radio Show on WPVM. Tony Robles interviews two poets, Vanessa Lee-Miller in Great Britain, and Yvette R. Murray in Charleston, SC. And… some spoken word recordings by…
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The View Ever Changing
Tony Robles interviews Karen Luke Jackson about her new poetry book The View Ever Changing.
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Change Your Point of View!
We can shift perspectives by moving our body, changing our thoughts, or geographically changing our physical point of view.
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Porch Music all Day in Morganton, NC
Tony Robles roams Morganton on International Porch Music Day, where it is an all-day event spread out to make it possible to hear almost everyone.
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We are Born with GPS
Negative emotions are simply a signal that we are moving away from the vibration of Source energy at our core.
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Poet, Anne Myles, and Spoken Word Today
Please join me today, live from three to five, for a late summer mix of conversation about books and writing, and spoken word. Tony Robles interviews poet, Anne Myles, about her debut: Late Epistle. Recordings by Sekou Sundiata,…
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This Black August: A Ferguson, MO 2014 Reflection
Almost ten years later, here we are making known another Black August, bringing attention to another Black August as the same dangers exist for Black women and men as they did when Mike Brown was shot down in…
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L&BH Radio, Wed. Aug 16, on WPVMfm.org
Karen Luke Jackson’s Grit allows a community to love and grieve… Elsa Valmidiano takes us on a magical, travel-filled journey and mining of the self…
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Reflections of a Muddled Mind
Muddled thinking will always mirror muddled ideas. Aligning with the point of view of Source allows us to see the true beauty in ourselves and our world!
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L&BH Radio, Wed. Aug 9, on WPVMfm.org
Karen Luke Jackson’s Grit allows a community to love and grieve… Elsa Valmidiano takes us on a magical, travel-filled journey and mining of the self…
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Every Ounce of Courage
Unedited video interview with memoir author by Tony Robles.
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Reflections on Barbie Land and the Real World
Truthfully, when I heard Barbie was being developed as a live-action movie, I was afraid she would be burned at the stake, with the fire stoked by haters bent on punishing my beloved beauty for crimes against feminist…
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Drawing Myself Up from My Roots
Learning and Ignoring Negativity, Thirteen years later, I still use a simple electric dehydrator for some fruits and things, or no electricity at all, just air drying for herbs. But I also just used my new freeze dryer…
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L&BH Radio, Wed. July 26, on WPVMfm.org
Scott Kikkawa is the author of three noir detective novels set in postwar Honolulu. Ingrid Rojas Contreras’ memoir, The Man Who Could Move Clouds, was a Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, and National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist.
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Practice Releasing Exhausting Emotions
a method to be with challenging emotions and transform their energy instead of numbing out with food or drugs.
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Homemade Hay
Mostly No-Mow at Martha’s Kitchen Garden
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L&BH Special: Reading & Writing Resilience
After the hottest week on Mother Earth on record, Laura Lengnick, author of Resilient Agriculture, and Meredith Leigh, author of the Ethical Meat Handbook, will join Martha in the studio to discuss what we can do about it.…
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Working Around Obstacles
I worked obsessively to keep myself from ruminating over the many ways I tried and failed to communicate with my husband, which wasn’t always effective, because mostly I was working in isolation, my thoughts free to torture me…
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Jose Case
Tony Robles talks with Jose Case, Main Street celebrity in Hendersonville, NC. In the video they talk about his bikes. In the audio file, Tony reads Jose a poem that he wrote about him, and interviews him WPVM…
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The Ugly Mug Interview
Unedited video interview with Horror Author Darren Todd by Tony Robles.
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L&BH Radio, Wed. July 12, on WPVMfm.org
Nancy Sloan in conversation with Tony Robles about her new book The Gravel Driveway. He also will speak with Tiny, from Poor News Network and Hendersonville celebrity Jose Case.
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The PERFECT Diet for Every Body
Take a nice deep grounding breath, and allow yourself to arrive at your meal before digging in. Slow down and be present with your food. Once you’re present in your body, you’ll be able to hear more clearly…
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How African American Culture Influences Community
African American culture is a bedrock of our democracy. It is what has shaped this land from Western Carolina, to Vermont, to Kansas City, to California. Western Carolina gets to benefit from a people who are connected to…
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Marriage and Climate Change
On June 23, 2011 there was a wind storm. Back then I wasn’t thinking much about whether it was normal to have a windstorm in June. I had only been living in the south for a couple years,…
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L&BH – Radio, Wed. June 28, on WPVM Asheville, NC
Kenneth Chamlee, author of The Best Material for the Artist in the World and Elizabeth Ann Besa-Quirino , author of Every Ounce of Courage: A Daughter’s Reflections On Her Mother’s Bravery
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Hendersonville Rally Against GOP abortion ban proposal
Listen & Be Heard speaks to attendees at abortion rights rally
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Hope at the End of the Driveway
Nancy Sloan says that hope is the book’s central message and that she sees her book as a way to help women who find themselves in similar circumstances.
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Plan to Succeed!
So part of my plan is planning what to do when my plan falls apart. Basically I make SURE that I always have foods that adhere to my plan easily available.
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Writer Christian Hanz Lozada
The unedited interview by Tony Robles with Christian Hanz Lozada, author of the forthcoming book He’s A Color Until He’s Not.
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A Filipino Man & A Black Man Eat Thai Food In Hendersonville
Poet and writer Tony Robles and I decided to have a meal after a small house concert in Hendersonville after a planned Juneteenth event was canceled due to inclement weather.
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L&BH – Wednesday, June 21, on WPVM Asheville, NC
Featured guests: Chelsey Clammer author of the forthcoming book of essays Human Heartbeat Detected and Darren Todd, author of the horror book The Ugly Mug.
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Home of Dr. Nina Simone
Tony Robles visits Tryon, NC, birthplace of Nina Simone, and reads a poem…
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Good Morning Truck
Tony Robles speaks to Stanley, owner of a new food truck ahead of The Acoustic Trail Trolley in Hendersonville, which raises money for the PTSD Fund.
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Poet Christopher D. Sims
The unedited interview by Tony Robles with Christopher D. Sims , from Rockford, IL, a poet, activist, and spoken work performer, in anticipation of a Juneteenth event in Hendersonville. The event was ultimately canceled, but Listen & Be Heard gained…
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Cool People
Calvin is one of the cool one’s. He’s what I call an all-weather kind of guy. If you need him, he’s there regardless of the forecast—and you don’t have to call him. He seems to have a sort…
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Multicultural Poetical & Cultural Magic in Hendersonville
Hendersonville provided magic and culture as I perused as a poet for the first time in the beautiful North Carolina continuous backdrop of clear blue skies and black mountains. Befriending fellow writers Tony Robles and Robert Zachary engaged…