Tag: writing
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s3e4 Rewind – American Anthropology – African and Asian American History, Sung and Told
This week we take the opportunity to revisit this illuminating conversation between Brian Kimmel and Martha Cinader, originally aired on February 13, 2025. Martha talks with Brian Kimmel about Blue Skies, Troubled Waters, a World War II account of an Indonesian American girl. We listen to Zora Neale Hurston sing and Tony visits her hometown…
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s3e4 American Anthropology – African and Asian American History, Sung and Told
Martha talks with Brian Kimmel about Blue Skies, Troubled Waters, a World War II account of an Indonesian American girl. We listen to Zora Neale Hurston sing and Tony visits her hometown celebration. Also, Eileen Tabios on Kendrick Lamar’s half-time show, Henry Dumas’ “Love Song” as a chorale.
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s2e40 Publishing Your Manuscript in 2025, Words of Wisdom from Publishers and Writers.
Time moves for writers when someone publishes their book. That someone could be the writer. We feature Season 2 highlights to help you start the clock on your manuscript: Beth Revis, Ernest Brawley, Meg Reid, Marissa Eller, Crystal Simone Smith, Marivi Soliven, Dan Sinykin, Diane Goettel and David Jauss.
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s2e37 –Spoken Word from Listen & Be Heard: Writers Reading Poetry and Prose
A panoply of poetry and prose readings by Caroline Cabading, Ruth Ozeki, Mary Oishi, Joan Gelfand, Ernie Brill, Glenis Redmond, Suzy Sureck, Josiah Luis Alderete, Lesley Ann Brown, Yenia, Crystal Cauley and Dan Sinykin from Season 2 of the Listen & Be Heard Hour for Readers & Writers.
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s2e20 An hour of Listen & Be Heard Spoken Word from East, West and South
Listen & Be Heard has hosted open mics on the east coast and west coast and starting on Juneteenth, in the Carolinas. In this episode we sample spoken word from all those places as we look forward to seeing what grows on Wednesday nights in downtown Greenville, SC. We feature the late Q.R. Hand jr., …
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s2e5 Poet Laureates and Publishing in the South
Martha Cinader speaks with Glenis Redmond and Anna Castro Spratt, the first Poet Laureate and Teen Poet Laureate of Greenville, SC and they also share some poetry. We also speak with Meg Reid, Executive Director of Hub City Publishing in Spartanburg, SC about what kind of books they look for, and her upcoming workshop about…
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S1E41 – Writers Reading part 3
In which we feature writers we interviewed during Season One reading from their books. Vanessa Lee Miller – Wai Luku, Lou Syquia – For Al Robles, Yvette Murray – Hush, Puppy, Avotcja – Oaktown Blues, Oscar Peñaranda – Followers of the Seasons, Glenis Redmond – The Listening Skin, Opal Palmer Adisa – Pretty Like Jamaica,…
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S1E40 – Writers Reading part 2
In which we feature writers we interviewed during Season One reading from their books. Featured Writers and Their Books: Oliver De La Paz-The Diaspora Sonnets, Anne Myles-Late Epistle, Karen Luke Jackson-Grit, David Cameron and Tabitha-Open Mic, Scott Kikawa-Char Siu, Nancy Sloan-The Gravel Driveway, Betty Ann Quirino-Every Ounce of Courage, Darren Todd-The Ugly Mug, Eric Nelson-House…
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S1E39 – Writers Reading part 1
In which we feature writers we interviewed during Season One reading from their books. Lesley-Ann Brown – Blackgirl on Mars, Keali’i McKenzie – Mana of Salt, Frank Gioia – The Mercury Man, Randy Gonzalez – Settling St. Malo, Tony Alderondo – Open Mic, Tony Robles – Thrift Store Metamorphosis, Rachel Barton, Connie Soper, Reika Reid,…
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S1E38 – Blackgirl on Mars
Martha Cinader speaks with Lesley-Ann Brown in Denmark, about her memoir, Blackgirl on Mars, a physical and spiritual search to discover home. The free-flowing conversation covers the mind of Carl Linnaeus, the waters of modern life and up-to-the-minute decolonization of our minds, and also how she got published and her thoughts on banned books. Also…
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S1E37 – 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.
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S1E36 – 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…
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Writers on Writing
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 about banned books…
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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 Ferguson, MO.
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Writing
Writing wiggly words in a woody world uncurling on pages from trees crossing the seas of our souls riding the rails of slavery telling tales of bravery you and me read We.
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Communication and Concentration of Creative Construction
This system that we were all born into here in America dictates that if you are ambitious about producing and presenting big arts projects you will have to go out with your hat out and ask people, companies, corporations and governments for money, because your work will not have any dollar value on its own.…