Category: Podcast

  • Ep. 37 A Song of Salt

    Ep. 37 A Song of Salt

    Tony Robles speaks with poet, Keali’i MacKenzie, The Mana of Salt, and visits a reading in Greensboro, NC where he speaks to Caroline Cottom, love and nuclear testing and Ross White about EKG’s, poetry, and banned books.

  • Ep. 36 Writers on Writing

    Ep. 36 Writers on Writing

    Podcast 36 – Fresh from the field Tony Robles, our own people’s poet, storyteller and radio reporter spoke to the Executive Director of the North Carolina Writers Network, who has a new book out, poets, historians, memoirists, publishers and a poet laureate, about the state of writing, the mental state of writers and their thoughts…

  • EP35-Ancestral Foodway Holidays

    EP35-Ancestral Foodway Holidays

    As we head straight for the season of deep tradition and sharing, Laura Lengnick and Meredith Leigh share insights into the global food system and resilience thinking. They challenge the dominant technological narrative about climate crisis in favor of human rights and regional foodways.

  • Community Poetry, Banned Poetry, and Multi-media Writing

    Community Poetry, Banned Poetry, and Multi-media Writing

    Tony speaks with Randy Gonzales, Poet, Writer, Community Historian, about his latest book Settling St. Malo. In the second hour I return to a conversation I began with writer, Nilsa Rivera, back in Episode 5 of this season, before Listen & Be Heard ventured into broadcast radio at WPVM in Asheville. We talk about what…

  • A Southern Thing with Ron Rash and Vinnie Vineyard

    A Southern Thing with Ron Rash and Vinnie Vineyard

    Tony Robles speaks southern author, Ron Rash, about about craft and sports. I speak with Vinnie Vineyard the director, producer and star of WJHC AM. Also supernatural Cherokee legend, Spearfinger, and Masque of the Red Death

  • Rachel Barton, Lauren Beckwith, Tony Robles

    Rachel Barton, Lauren Beckwith, Tony Robles

    In our first hour Martha speaks with Rachel Barton, editor of Willawaw Journal, about the new fall issue, now available for the price of your time and attention at Willawawjournal.com. We will also hear contributing poets Cecil Morris, Erica Reid and Connie Soper, and a spoken word recording from Roots Manuva. Tony Robles speaks with…

  • EP31-Oscar Peñaranda, Sharon M. Scott

    EP31-Oscar Peñaranda, Sharon M. Scott

    In our first hour Tony speaks with reverence to his elder, poet, prose writer, historian, teacher, Oscar Peñaranda, author of the forthcoming mixed-genre book Follower of the Seasons, by Eastwind Books. The conversation is mixed up just a little bit with some spoken word from Tony, who will be reading from and signing his new book, Thriftstore Metamorphosis, by Redhawk…

  • EP30-Posit Journal, Redhawk Publications

    EP30-Posit Journal, Redhawk Publications

    Martha speaks with Susan Lewis, editor and publisher of Posit Journal. Tony Robles speaks with authors from Red Hawk Publications at the Catawba Valley Festival for the Arts and lots of poetry read by the poets, including some from children that you really don’t want to miss.

  • EP29-Shirley Ancheta, M. Evelina Galang

    EP29-Shirley Ancheta, M. Evelina Galang

    we feature a Manang from Manilatown, poet, Shirley Ancheta and novelist M. Evelina Galang, who has a newly published collection of short stories entitled When the Hibiscus Falls. We also feature a set of poetry celebrating John Coltrane on the occasion of his birthday, and a spoken word set that includes Dr. Maya Angelou in…

  • EP28-Poetry live from Manilatown, Nora Okja Keller from the Archives

    EP28-Poetry live from Manilatown, Nora Okja Keller from the Archives

    We feature an archival interview from 1997 with Nora Okja Keller about her book Comfort Woman, and Keller reads from the book. Also, interviews by Tony Robles, and poetry from at the Manilatown Heritage Foundation in San Francisco. Martha and Tony talk a bit about the craft and business of writing a short story, and a…

  • Vanessa Lee-Miller, Yvette R. Murray

    Vanessa Lee-Miller, Yvette R. Murray

    Tony Robles interviews two poets, Vanessa Lee Miller in Great Britain, and Yvette R. Murray in Charleston, SC. And… some spoken word recordings by Vanessa Lee-Miller, Katherine Dunn, Reg E. Gaines, Q.R. Hand jr., Yvette R. Murray, Avotcja and Lord Buckley..

  • Oliver De La Paz, Barbara Chase-Riboud

    Oliver De La Paz, Barbara Chase-Riboud

    An interview by Tony Robles of poet, Oliver De La Paz, and an archival interview by Martha Cinader of Barbara Chase-Riboud. Recordings by William Burroughs, Alexie Sherman, Steve Cannon, Po’azz Yo’azz, Ken Kesey, and Edwin Torres.

  • Spoken Word Special

    Spoken Word Special

    Featuring poet, Anne Myles, about Late Epistle, Sappho’s Prize in Poetry, and spoken word about heat, longing, love and late life by Sekou Sundiata, Cultural Consciousness, Rosalie Sorrels, Bob Holman, Odd City, Lord Buckley, Devorah Major, Opal Palmer Adisa, Frank Messina, Kevin Griffin, Po’azz Yo’azz, Chris Anderson, Kysha Brown, Beau Sia, Howard Wiley, James Baldwin,…

  • Ep. 24-Talking Reparations with Dr. Dwight Mullen

    Ep. 24-Talking Reparations with Dr. Dwight Mullen

    Tony Robles interviews Karen Luke Jackson and Elsa Valmidiano. A spoken word set including Pedro Pietri, Tracie Morris, Latasha Natasha Diggs and poets from the Hendersonville open mic in NC. More from Martha’s Kitchen Garden at the end…

  • Ep. 23-Karen Luke Jackson, Elsa Valmidiano

    Ep. 23-Karen Luke Jackson, Elsa Valmidiano

    Tony Robles interviews Karen Luke Jackson and Elsa Valmidiano. A spoken word set including Pedro Pietri, Tracie Morris, Latasha Natasha Diggs and poets from the Hendersonville open mic in NC. More from Martha’s Kitchen Garden at the end…