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KPFA - Cover to CoverCover to Cover – Special Tribute to Jack Foley PART 2
Cover to Cover continues our tribute to Jack Foley with Part 2 of our remembrance. This episode features poetic performances — including a piece by Nina Serrano — along with stories that illuminate Jack’s creative spirit. We also open the phone lines to hear from you, our listeners. Join us as we honor Jack’s enduring legacy and the powerful body of work he leaves behind.
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2025-11-2559 minKPFA - Cover to CoverCover to Cover – Special Tribute to Jack Foley PART 1Cover to Cover presents a special tribute to Jack Foley, the beloved poet, broadcaster, and longtime KPFA host whose voice shaped generations of listeners. In Part 1, we revisit Jack’s early work, hear archival moments that capture his unique style and generosity, and share personal reflections from his son. Join us as we celebrate the brilliance, humor, and humanity that made Jack Foley an irreplaceable part of KPFA.
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2025-11-1859 min
The ButteCast with Bill FoleyNo. 283: Jack HockingIf you watch or play sports in the Mining City, you probably know Jack Hocking. We call him the Hockinator. Even if you did not know his name, you probably recognize him as an official of so many sports. Jack umpires baseball and softball, and he officiates basketball and football. He even officiated lacrosse for a bit.Jack also works as an announcer at hockey games in Butte from time to time, and he runs the Muzik Your Way DJ service, so you have probably seen him in action at a game, wedding or party.
2025-08-081h 32The ButteCast with Bill FoleyTap 'er Light Jack CrowleyI have a million stories to tell about legendary Highland View Golf Course club pro Jack Crowley, this is one of them.
The Jack Crowley Clubhouse at the "Muni" will officially be dedicated at noon on Saturday, July 8.
Today's bonus podcast is brought to you by Park Street Liquors. Make your story legendary. Opening music by Tim Montana. For more from the Elk Park native, go to timmontana.com. For more from Bill Foley, go to ButteCast.com.
2023-07-0408 minThe ButteCast with Bill FoleyPodcast No. 93: Jack HogartJack Hogart was my junior high football coach. He is also one of the funnies people I have ever met. He certainly comes from the funnies family I have ever known.
Listen in as Jack talks about that family, his coaching days and his years as a football official in high school and the Frontier Conference.
Today's podcast is brought to. you by Leskovar Honda, home of the 20-year, 200,000-mile warrantee. Intro music by Tim Montana. For more from the Elk Park native, go to timmontana.com. For more from Bill Foley, go to ButteCast.com...
2023-05-261h 33
Acts of ImpactJack Foley and the Sound of CinemaOn today's episode, we'll explore the incredible story of Jack Foley, a film-maker whose inventive style of creating sound effects for movies revolutionized Hollywood. We'll discuss the unique history of how sound effects came to the movies, how Jack's inventive techniques led to some of today's most creative sounds, and how Foley Artists use everyday objects to sensationalize the stories we see on screen.I hope you enjoy today's episode. To learn more about the show, view transcripts, and more visit:https://www.actsofimpact.comVoiceover acting by Art Brown.
2023-05-0121 min
Think Foley'sRecent Decisions in the Court of Appeal - Foley's February 2022 Series RecapFollowing the conclusion of the Foley's February 2023 series, we are pleased to present a recap of all sessions of the Foley's February 2022 Series. Paul Holdenson KC and Jack O'Connor analyse the most recent decisions in the court of appeal covering topics such as: Errors made during sentencing & to watch out for during your trials The correction of errors and the court of appeals power of amendment Second or subsequent appeals against convictions Sentencing principles relevant to the COVID-19 pandemic Paul has developed a specialist practice as an appellate advocate, appearing predominantly in criminal appeals. He regula...
2023-02-0656 min
Here, There, and Everywhere: A Beatles PodcastEp. 38 - Mick FoleyMick Foley is a legendary professional wrestler, who is widely regarded as one of the greatest wrestlers in the history of the WWE. One of the cornerstones of WWE’s meteoric rise in the late 90’s, Foley has wrestled under his real name and the personas: Cactus Jack, Mankind, and Dude Love. Foley is a four-time world champion, an 11-time world tag-team champion, a one-time TNA Legends Champion, and the inaugural WWF Hardcore Champion. In this episode, Jack and Mick talk about Mick's love for The Beatles, his favorite Beatles albums, thoughts on the "Get Back" documentary, and how Mick i...
2022-12-2133 min
The A To B PodcastElaine Doyle, Head of Marketing at DoneDeal, Adverts and Daft.ie at Distilled SCH.Supports & Services listed are available here.Trigger Warning: This episode references sexual assault.Joining Jack this week is Elaine Doyle, a fellow CIT/MTU Alumni. Elaine initially studied Business Studies going onto complete an MSc in Food Marketing at UCC. She spent her early career working alongside FMCG brands such as Cully & Sully and Robert Roberts. She later went onto work at Google and even became the YouTube Lead (or "Head of") for Ireland.
2021-06-301h 26The A To B PodcastJordan Murshed, Creative Director at Aperture MediaThis week, I'm joined by Jordan Murshed, Creative Director at Aperture Media. A graduate of DLSAD's Screenwriting & Audio Production course. I chat to Jordan about his youth and how his creative spark led him to film making and music production. From commercial to personal projects, Jordan tells Jack what drives him most.
2021-06-231h 51The A To B PodcastJack Murray, CEO & Founder of MediaHQThis week I'm joined by a second Jack! Jack Murray is the Founder & CEO of MediaHQ, a super powerful press release distribution tool and media contacts database. Jack originally studied Marketing (Agribusiness) in UL before studying Broadcast Journalism in DIT.
2021-05-0559 minThe A To B PodcastJay Woodard and Muriel Foley, Content Is King PodcastOn the Season Finale of Breaking Ba- ... My mistake, but it is the season finale of the A To B Podcast! This week I interview Jay Woodard (ex 96fm, Huckleberry's Doughnuts Founder, Fightcon Co-Founder) and Muriel Foley (ex iProspect, ex Hopkins Communications, currently Managing Director at MGFD) from the Content Is King Podcast! Thank you to everyone who has listened and supported so far, the A To B Podcast will return.
2020-12-1651 min
The Path & The PracticeEpisode 5 - Jack Lord talks 25 years at Foley, LGBTQ rights, labor & employment, Ashtanga Yoga, and attorney well-beingThis episode features a discussion with Jack Lord. Jack is a partner and co-chair of Foley’s Labor & Employment Group. Jack reflects on his 25-years practicing at Foley, including what it was like being a junior employment associate in the mid-1990s, when a variety of new labor and employment laws were adopted, navigating legal practice as an out gay man, and the progress that has been made regarding LGBTQ rights. Jack also shares about his passion for yoga and why it’s so important for attorneys to focus on their well-being.
2020-07-2838 min
KPFA - Cover to Cover with Jack FoleyCover to Cover with Jack Foley – April 1, 2020A celebration of the art of poetry, hosted by jack Foley.
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2020-04-0159 minKPFA - Cover to Cover with Jack FoleyCover to Cover with Jack Foley – March 4, 2020A celebration of the art of poetry, hosted by jack Foley.
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2020-03-0459 minKPFA - Cover to Cover with Jack FoleyCover to Cover with Jack Foley – February 26, 2020A celebration of the art of poetry, hosted by jack Foley.
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2020-02-2629 minKPFA - Cover to Cover with Jack FoleyCover to Cover with Jack Foley – February 19, 2020A celebration of the art of poetry, hosted by jack Foley.
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2020-02-1929 minKPFA - Cover to Cover with Jack FoleyCover to Cover with Jack Foley – February 12, 2020A celebration of the art of poetry, hosted by jack Foley.
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2020-02-1229 minKPFA - Cover to Cover with Jack FoleyCover to Cover with Jack Foley – February 5, 2020A celebration of the art of poetry, hosted by jack Foley.
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2020-02-0559 minKPFA - Cover to Cover with Jack FoleyCover to Cover with Jack Foley – December 11, 2019A celebration of the art of poetry, hosted by jack Foley.
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2019-12-1129 min
KPFA - Cover to Cover with Jack FoleyCover to Cover with Jack Foley – September 18, 2019Today’s show is the second in a series of shows presenting excerpts from Jack’s book, Visions & Affiliations: California Poetry from 1940 to 2005. In Jack Foley’s Unmanageable Masterpiece (Monongahela Books, 2019), Dana Gioia and Peter Whitfield write: “In 2011 a tiny press in Berkeley published Visions & Affiliations, an eccentric 1300-page chronology of post-war California literature in two massive paperbound folio volumes. With no commercial distribution or publicity, the book sold about two hundred copies and soon vanished from sight—but not from the memory of the small audience that read it. Some of them considered the elaborate time-line the first adequate a...
2019-09-1829 minKPFA - Cover to Cover with Jack FoleyCover to Cover with Jack Foley – September 11, 2019A celebration of the art of poetry, hosted by jack Foley.
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2019-09-1129 minKPFA - Cover to Cover with Jack FoleyCover to Cover with Jack Foley – August 28, 2019Today’s show deals with Jack Foley’s Unmanageable Masterpiece, a new book published by Monongahela Books and edited by Dana Gioia and Peter Whitfield. The book deals with a book Jack published with Pantograph Press in 2011: Visions & Affiliations: California Poetry from 1940 to 2005. The Gioia-Whitfield book has this to say about Visions & Affiliations:
“In 2011 a tiny press in Berkeley published Visions & Affiliations, an eccentric 1300-page chronology of post-war California literature in two massive paperbound folio volumes. With no commercial distribution or publicity, the book sold about two hundred copies and soon vanished from sight—but not from the memo...
2019-09-0429 min
KPFA - Cover to Cover with Jack FoleyCover to Cover with Jack Foley & Nina Serrano- August 7, 2019THE NINA-JACK SHOW
“I am afraid we are not rid of God because we still have faith in grammar.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche
Fearlessly facing nouns and participles, recklessly splitting infinitives, in come Nina Serrano and Jack Foley, KPFA’s interwoven pair. Today’s show will feature the usual mixture of wit, brouhaha, political awareness, music and daring do. A special aspect with be the recitation of Jack’s piece, “Noir” by the author and Sangye Land. Jack writes, “I’ve thought about Noir for years, grew up with its voices and images in my head...
2019-08-0729 min
KPFA - Cover to Cover with Jack FoleyCover to Cover with Jack Foley – July 10, 2019Today’s show is the third, concluding program in the series about the event KPFA presented on January 23 at The Hillside Club in Berkeley. That event was a talk by the Chinese-American novelist, poet, and National Book Award winner, Ha Jin, who had recently published The Banished Immortal: A Life of Li Bai (Li Po). The event was hosted by Jack Foley. Today we will present excerpts from the freewheeling, illuminating discussion between Jack and the author; the recording was done by Jane Heaven. In this excerpt Jack and Ha Jin were discussing “emotional parallels” between Ha Jin’s life and...
2019-07-1029 minKPFA - Cover to Cover with Jack FoleyCover to Cover with Jack Foley – July 3, 2019A celebration of the art of poetry, hosted by jack Foley.
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2019-07-0329 min
KPFA - Cover to Cover with Jack FoleyCover to Cover with Jack Foley – June 19, 2019A celebration of the art of poetry, hosted by jack Foley.
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2019-06-1929 minKPFA - Cover to Cover with Jack FoleyCover to Cover with Jack Foley – June 5, 2019A celebration of the art of poetry, hosted by jack Foley.
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2019-06-0529 min
KPFA - Cover to Cover with Jack FoleyCover to Cover with Nina Serrano and Jack Foley – May 1, 2019Nina Serrano and Jack Foley—KPFA’s interwoven pair—are back again as May jumps into the calendar (May Day! M’aidez!). A special feature of today’s program will be a celebration of the great California (Oakland-born) poet, Robert Duncan (1919-1988). There will be an international celebration of Duncan at the Sorbonne from June 12 to June 14, but today’s show is strictly home grown. Nina and Jack will also contribute their special brand of hi-jinks.
Here is Nina:
16th Day of the New Year
It is the 16th day of the New...
2019-05-0129 min
KPFA - Cover to Cover with Jack FoleyCover to Cover with Jack Foley – April 17, 2019Jack Foley’s essay on Lawrence Ferlinghetti, “The Splendid Life of the World,” appeared in both Poetry Flash and in Jack’s book, O Powerful Western Star.
On today’s show, continuing his celebration of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Jack will read selections from the essay. The essay begins,
“I gave it to my students and they adored it. I wanted them to like it. But they adored it.”
Thus a teacher friend of mine on Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s A Coney Island of the Mind, first published in 1958 and still in print. Ferlinghetti himself remarks that poets often...
2019-04-1729 minKPFA - Cover to Cover with Jack FoleyCover to Cover with Jack Foley – April 10, 2019A celebration of the art of poetry, hosted by jack Foley.
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2019-04-1029 min
KPFA - Cover to Cover with Jack FoleyCover to Cover with Nina Serrano and Jack Foley – April 3, 2019COVER TO COVER with Nina Serrano and Jack Foley
Wednesday, April 3, 2019, 3:00 – 4:00 p.m., KPFA 94.1 FM
(available at the KPFA website)
If the Mueller report has you down, if the internet keeps quitting on you, if the skies in sunny California are gray gray gray, try pepping up and having a cup o’ cheer with Nina Serrano and Jack Foley, KPFA’s interwoven pair.
Today’s show will feature a short segment featuring Thomas Stanton, Poet Laureate # 7 of Benicia. Mr. Stanton is, says Nina, famous locally for being “not understandable.” Stanton himself remarks that...
2019-04-0329 min
KPFA - Cover to Cover with Jack FoleyCover to Cover with Jack Foley – March 27, 2019COVER TO COVER with Jack Foley
Wednesday, March 27, 2019, 3:00 – 3:30 p.m., KPFA 94.1 FM
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Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti was born in 1919. On March 24, 2019 he turned 100 years old. Today’s show is a celebration of Ferlinghetti’s career. On April 21, 1994, I interviewed Lawrence at City Lights. The subject of the interview was his then new book, These Are My Rivers: New and Selected Poems. Though the interview is almost a quarter of a century old, I think you’ll find it as fresh today as it was when it was first recorded. Partly be...
2019-03-2729 min
KPFA - Cover to Cover with Jack FoleyCover to Cover with Jack Foley – March 20, 2019COVER TO COVER with Jack Foley
Wednesday, March 20, 2019, 3:00 – 3:30 p.m., KPFA 94.1 FM
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LANTERNS HANGING ON THE WIND PART TWO
This is an excerpt from THUYỀN VÀ BIỂN by Xuân Quỳnh; the poem is a love poem to her husband, poet Lưu Quang Vũ:
Chỉ có thuyền mới hiểu
Biển mênh mông nhường nào
Chỉ có biển mới biết
Thuyền đi đâu, về đâu
Những ngày không gặp...
2019-03-2029 minKPFA - Cover to Cover with Jack FoleyCover to Cover with Jack Foley – January 16, 2019A celebration of the art of poetry, hosted by jack Foley.
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2019-01-1629 minKPFA - Cover to Cover with Jack FoleyCover to Cover with Jack Foley – January 9, 2019A celebration of the art of poetry, hosted by jack Foley.
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2019-01-0929 minKPFA - Cover to Cover with Jack FoleyCover to Cover with Jack Foley – November 28, 2018A celebration of the art of poetry. A well-known poet himself, Jack Foley’s considerable historical knowledge and his awareness of the current “scene” are incorporated into his radio shows and have made them a kaleidoscopic, always stimulating attraction for anyone interested in poetry.
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2018-11-2823 min
KPFA - Cover to Cover with Jack FoleyCover to Cover with Jack Foley – October 17, 2018: Jacob Smullyan, Part TwoJacob Smullyan, Part Two
So many of [my students] made the same errors,” wrote Delmore Schwartz, “that, in a way, they were no longer errors. Moreover, the longer I thought about some of the errors, the more they seemed to be possible enlargements of meaning and association which might be creative”: “error’s fecundity.”
On today’s show poet/editor/musician Jacob Smullyan returns to regale us with tales from his sumptuously entertaining, mercurially metaphysical, highly questionable, entirely (or partially?) erroneous book, Errata. Felix Culpa!—or is that the author of another book?
This is # XXVI:
S was not accustomed to the ground, t...
2018-10-1717 minKPFA - Cover to Cover with Jack FoleyCover to Cover with Jack Foley – July 18, 2018A celebration of the art of poetry, hosted by jack Foley.
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2018-07-1817 min
KPFA - Cover to Cover Open BookCover to Cover Open Book – May 2, 2018: Jack Foley & Nina SerranoSpecial One-Hour Program.
Part Two: A first Wednesday means another edition of the Nina-Jack Show (May Day/M’aider). But don’t be too distressed. It will be another fun filled, emotionally charged pot of poetry at the rainbow’s end (94.1 FM). Nina and Jack give free rein to the horses of Imagination but retain their right to grumble and criticize. Are you in the Trump Dumps? Try Foley and Serrano as The Green Hornet and Kato, recently resurrected in the dailyDick Tracy comic strip:
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2018-05-0229 minKPFA - Cover to Cover Open BookCover to Cover Open Book – May 2, 2018: Jack Foley & Nina SerranoSpecial One-Hour Program.
Part Two: A first Wednesday means another edition of the Nina-Jack Show (May Day/M’aider). But don’t be too distressed. It will be another fun filled, emotionally charged pot of poetry at the rainbow’s end (94.1 FM). Nina and Jack give free rein to the horses of Imagination but retain their right to grumble and criticize. Are you in the Trump Dumps? Try Foley and Serrano as The Green Hornet and Kato, recently resurrected in the dailyDick Tracy comic strip:
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2018-05-0208 minKPFA - Cover to Cover with Jack FoleyCover to Cover with Jack Foley – May 2, 2018: Jack Foley & Nina SerranoSpecial One Hour Program.
Part One:
A first Wednesday means another edition of the Nina-Jack Show (May Day/M’aider). But don’t be too distressed. It will be another fun filled, emotionally charged pot of poetry at the rainbow’s end (94.1 FM). Nina and Jack give free rein to the horses of Imagination but retain their right to grumble and criticize. Are you in the Trump Dumps? Try Foley and Serrano as The Green Hornet and Kato, recently resurrected in the dailyDick Tracy comic strip:
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2018-05-0208 minKPFA - Cover to Cover with Jack FoleyCover to Cover with Jack Foley – April 18, 2018A celebration of the art of poetry, hosted by jack Foley.
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2018-04-1808 minKPFA - Cover to Cover with Jack FoleyCover to Cover with Jack Foley – February 14, 2018A celebration of the art of poetry, hosted by jack Foley.
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2018-02-1416 minKPFA - Cover to Cover with Jack FoleyCover to Cover with Jack Foley – January 24, 2018A celebration of the art of poetry, hosted by jack Foley.
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2018-01-2416 minKPFA - Cover to Cover with Jack FoleyCover to Cover with Jack Foley – January 17, 2018A celebration of the art of poetry, hosted by jack Foley.
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2018-01-1708 minKPFA - Cover to Cover with Jack FoleyCover to Cover with Jack Foley – December 27, 2017A celebration of the art of poetry, hosted by jack Foley.
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2017-12-2708 minKPFA - Cover to Cover with Jack FoleyCover to Cover with Jack Foley – December 20, 2017A celebration of the art of poetry, hosted by jack Foley.
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2017-12-2008 minKPFA - Cover to Cover with Jack FoleyCover to Cover with Jack Foley – November 29, 2017A celebration of the art of poetry, hosted by jack Foley.
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2017-11-2908 minKPFA - Cover to Cover with Jack FoleyCover to Cover with Jack Foley – November 22, 2017A celebration of the art of poetry, hosted by jack Foley.
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2017-11-2208 minKPFA - Cover to Cover with Jack FoleyCover to Cover with Jack Foley – November 8, 2017A celebration of the art of poetry, hosted by jack Foley.
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2017-11-0808 minKPFA - Cover to Cover with Jack FoleyCover to Cover with Jack Foley – November 1, 2017A celebration of the art of poetry, hosted by jack Foley.
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2017-11-0108 minKPFA - Cover to Cover with Jack FoleyCover to Cover with Jack Foley – October 25, 2017A celebration of the art of poetry, hosted by jack Foley.
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2017-10-2508 minKPFA - Cover to Cover with Jack FoleyCover to Cover with Jack Foley – October 18, 2017A celebration of the art of poetry, hosted by jack Foley.
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2017-10-1817 minKPFA - Cover to Cover with Jack FoleyCover to Cover with Jack Foley – October 11, 2017A celebration of the art of poetry, hosted by jack Foley.
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2017-10-1108 minKPFA - Cover to Cover with Jack FoleyCover to Cover with Jack Foley – October 4, 2017A celebration of the art of poetry, hosted by jack Foley.
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2017-10-0408 minKPFA - Cover to Cover with Jack FoleyCover to Cover with Jack Foley – September 6, 2017A celebration of the art of poetry, hosted by jack Foley.
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2017-09-0608 minKPFA - Cover to Cover with Jack FoleyCover to Cover with Jack Foley – August 30, 2017A celebration of the art of poetry, hosted by jack Foley.
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2017-08-3008 minKPFA - Cover to Cover with Jack FoleyCover to Cover with Jack Foley – August 23, 2017A celebration of the art of poetry, hosted by jack Foley.
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2017-08-2308 minKPFA - Cover to Cover with Jack FoleyCover to Cover with Jack Foley – August 16, 2017A celebration of the art of poetry, hosted by jack Foley.
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2017-08-1608 minKPFA - Cover to Cover with Jack FoleyCover to Cover with Jack Foley – August 9, 2017A celebration of the art of poetry, hosted by jack Foley.
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2017-08-0908 minKPFA - Cover to Cover with Jack FoleyCover to Cover with Jack Foley – July 19, 2017A celebration of the art of poetry, hosted by jack Foley.
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2017-07-1908 minKPFA - Cover to Cover with Jack FoleyCover to Cover with Jack Foley – July 12, 2017A celebration of the art of poetry, hosted by jack Foley.
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2017-07-1208 minKPFA - Cover to Cover with Jack FoleyCover to Cover with Jack Foley – July 5, 2017A celebration of the art of poetry, hosted by jack Foley.
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2017-07-0508 minKPFA - Cover to Cover with Jack FoleyCover to Cover with Jack Foley – June 28, 2017A celebration of the art of poetry, hosted by jack Foley.
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2017-06-2808 minKPFA - Cover to Cover with Jack FoleyCover to Cover with Jack Foley – June 21, 2017A celebration of the art of poetry, hosted by jack Foley.
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2017-06-2104 minKPFA - Cover to Cover with Jack FoleyCover to Cover with Jack Foley – June 14, 2017A celebration of the art of poetry, hosted by jack Foley.
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2017-06-1404 minKPFA - Cover to Cover with Jack FoleyCover to Cover with Jack Foley – May 31, 2017A celebration of the art of poetry, hosted by jack Foley.
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2017-05-3104 minKPFA - Cover to Cover with Jack FoleyCover to Cover with Jack Foley – June 1, 2016Today’s show is a sort of experiment. Two veteran KPFA broadcasters, Nina Serrano and Jack Foley will spend an hour in intense conversation. Since they are both prominent, active Bay Area poets, they will present their own work along with the work of others. Guests will appear. Old programs will be excerpted. New ideas will be exchanged. The show has no name at the moment but some suggestions have been made: “The Straight Dope” (but that perhaps places an overemphasis on heterosexuality); “Virulent Vaudeville”; “Associations with Nina and Jack”; “Dada and Mama”; “Alter Cockers in Extremis”; etc. Come join these locurandero...
2016-06-012h 14KPFA - Cover to Cover with Jack FoleyCover to Cover with Jack Foley – March 16, 2016A tribute to Al Young—originally meant for Black History Month. Al Young fell ill and was unable to appear at a reading he had agreed to do. He asked Jack Foley to substitute for him and to read some of his work. Jack decided to make the reading a tribute to Al Young. You’ll hear what Jack came up with on today’s show.
Mississippi-born, Detroit-raised Al Young is a novelist and a screenplay writer as well as a poet. He has also published some beautiful essays—“musical memoirs.” He was born May 31st—same date...
2016-03-1604 minKPFA - Cover to Cover with Jack FoleyCover to Cover with Jack Foley – January 27, 2016Jack’s four January shows all deal with the remarkable anthology, Fightin’ Words: 25 Years of Provocative Poetry and Prose from “The Blue Collar Pen.” The anthology was edited by Judith Cody, Kim McMillon and Claire Ortalda and published jointly by PEN Oakland Publications and Heyday Books. Among the authors included are: Ishmael Reed, Elmaz Abinader, Opal Palmer Adisa, Francisco X. Alarcón, Mimi Albert, Avotcja, Christopher Bernard, Carla Blank, Cecil Brown, Janine Canan, Neeli Cherkovski, Judith Cody, Gillian Conoley, Lucha Corpi, John Curl, Steve Dalachinsky, J.P. Dancing Bear, Lucille Lang Day, Kathleen de Azevedo, Sharon Doubiago, Camille T. Dungy, Ma...
2016-01-2704 minKPFA - Cover to Cover with Jack FoleyCover to Cover with Jack Foley – January 20, 2016Jack’s four January shows all deal with the remarkable anthology, Fightin’ Words: 25 Years of Provocative Poetry and Prose from “The Blue Collar Pen.” The anthology was edited by Judith Cody, Kim McMillon and Claire Ortalda and published jointly by PEN Oakland Publications and Heyday Books. Among the authors included are: Ishmael Reed, Elmaz Abinader, Opal Palmer Adisa, Francisco X. Alarcón, Mimi Albert, Avotcja, Christopher Bernard, Carla Blank, Cecil Brown, Janine Canan, Neeli Cherkovski, Judith Cody, Gillian Conoley, Lucha Corpi, John Curl, Steve Dalachinsky, J.P. Dancing Bear, Lucille Lang Day, Kathleen de Azevedo, Sharon Doubiago, Camille T. Dungy, Ma...
2016-01-2004 minKPFA - Cover to Cover with Jack FoleyCover to Cover with Jack Foley – January 13, 2016Jack’s four January shows all deal with the remarkable anthology, Fightin’ Words: 25 Years of Provocative Poetry and Prose from “The Blue Collar Pen.” The anthology was edited by Judith Cody, Kim McMillon and Claire Ortalda and published jointly by PEN Oakland Publications and Heyday Books. Among the authors included are: Ishmael Reed, Elmaz Abinader, Opal Palmer Adisa, Francisco X. Alarcón, Mimi Albert, Avotcja, Christopher Bernard, Carla Blank, Cecil Brown, Janine Canan, Neeli Cherkovski, Judith Cody, Gillian Conoley, Lucha Corpi, John Curl, Steve Dalachinsky, J.P. Dancing Bear, Lucille Lang Day, Kathleen de Azevedo, Sharon Doubiago, Camille T. Dungy, Ma...
2016-01-1304 minKPFA - Cover to Cover with Jack FoleyCover to Cover with Jack Foley – January 6, 2016Jack’s four January shows all deal with the remarkable anthology, Fightin’ Words: 25 Years of Provocative Poetry and Prose from “The Blue Collar Pen.” The anthology was edited by Judith Cody, Kim McMillon and Claire Ortalda and published jointly by PEN Oakland Publications and Heyday Books. Among the authors included are: Ishmael Reed, Elmaz Abinader, Opal Palmer Adisa, Francisco X. Alarcón, Mimi Albert, Avotcja, Christopher Bernard, Carla Blank, Cecil Brown, Janine Canan, Neeli Cherkovski, Judith Cody, Gillian Conoley, Lucha Corpi, John Curl, Steve Dalachinsky, J.P. Dancing Bear, Lucille Lang Day, Kathleen de Azevedo, Sharon Doubiago, Camille T. Dungy, Ma...
2016-01-0604 minKPFA - Cover to Cover with Jack FoleyCover to Cover with Jack Foley – December 23, 2015“SONG & DANCE MAN”
Today’s show is a tribute to Jack’s father, who was a song-and-dance man in vaudeville in the 1920s, and to vaudevillians in general. Jack will read two pieces, one written as part of my autobiography, the other written for a dance web site. You’ll also hear Gene Kelly performing a classic song and dance routine—a soft shoe originally performed by the master dancer, George Primrose (1852-1919), the Fred Astaire of his day. Jack’s father performed this routine as well—and taught it to Jack. Jack’s description of his father begins,...
2015-12-2304 minKPFA - Cover to Cover with Jack FoleyCover to Cover with Jack Foley – August 12, 2015JACK @ 75
“You’re a strange couple: you’re so pale and he’s so red.”
—Gloria Alford to Adelle Foley
Jack’s August shows—JACK @ 75—are a special celebration of his 75th birthday (August 9th ). On today’s show Jack joins forces with Nina Serrano to present Nina’s hour-long, in depth interview with him. The first half of the interview will be on Jack’s program, Cover to Cover (3:00-3:30), the second half on Nina’s Open Book (3:30-4). Basing her questions on Jack’s selected poems, EYES—and admitting that there is much in the book she does n...
2015-08-1204 minKPFA - Cover to Cover with Jack FoleyCover to Cover with Jack Foley – February 25, 2015Cover to Cover with Jack Foley is a celebration of poetry as it was, as it is, and as it shall be. Poet/critic Dana Gioia writes that Foley’s show “may be the best thing of its kind in the country” (turnrow, 2004). Since 1988 Foley has presented current poets of all schools in interviews that seek for depth rather than fashion. One poet remarked to Foley, “You’ve made me see my work in a new way.” His classic “Poetpourri” shows—a wide-ranging exploration of American and English poetry in the 20th century—are a testimony to the sheer diversity of America...
2015-02-2504 minKPFA - Cover to Cover with Jack FoleyCover to Cover with Jack Foley – February 18, 2015Cover to Cover with Jack Foley is a celebration of poetry as it was, as it is, and as it shall be. Poet/critic Dana Gioia writes that Foley’s show “may be the best thing of its kind in the country” (turnrow, 2004). Since 1988 Foley has presented current poets of all schools in interviews that seek for depth rather than fashion. One poet remarked to Foley, “You’ve made me see my work in a new way.” His classic “Poetpourri” shows—a wide-ranging exploration of American and English poetry in the 20th century—are a testimony to the sheer diversity of America...
2015-02-1804 minKPFA - Cover to Cover with Jack FoleyCover to Cover with Jack Foley – February 11, 2015Cover to Cover with Jack Foley is a celebration of poetry as it was, as it is, and as it shall be. Poet/critic Dana Gioia writes that Foley’s show “may be the best thing of its kind in the country” (turnrow, 2004). Since 1988 Foley has presented current poets of all schools in interviews that seek for depth rather than fashion. One poet remarked to Foley, “You’ve made me see my work in a new way.” His classic “Poetpourri” shows—a wide-ranging exploration of American and English poetry in the 20th century—are a testimony to the sheer diversity of America...
2015-02-1108 minKPFA - Cover to Cover with Jack FoleyCover to Cover with Jack Foley – February 4, 2015Cover to Cover with Jack Foley is a celebration of poetry as it was, as it is, and as it shall be. Poet/critic Dana Gioia writes that Foley’s show “may be the best thing of its kind in the country” (turnrow, 2004). Since 1988 Foley has presented current poets of all schools in interviews that seek for depth rather than fashion. One poet remarked to Foley, “You’ve made me see my work in a new way.” His classic “Poetpourri” shows—a wide-ranging exploration of American and English poetry in the 20th century—are a testimony to the sheer diversity of America...
2015-02-0404 minKPFA - Cover to Cover with Jack FoleyCover to Cover- with Jack Foley – July 2, 2014Jack’s guest on today’s show is Jerome Rothenberg, born in 1931 and still a volcano of activity. He has recently published a 600-page book, Eye of Witness: A Jerome Rothenberg Reader, edited by the author and Heriberto Yépez (Black Widow Press). It is a Rothenberg anthology whose subject is the multiple, elusive, illuminating, on-the-move Jerome Rothenberg. Rothenberg’s friend, the late poet Paul Blackburn, once asked, “Why has life put such / a need to talk inside us…?” (“Old Question”). The late Jackson MacLow remarked that “Jerome Rothenberg opened the poetry world to multicultural attitudes and approaches in the late fifties, s...
2014-07-0204 minKPFA - Cover to Cover with Jack FoleyCover to Cover with Jack Foley – April 18, 2012Jack Foley interviews Clive Matson, who is the recipient of this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award from the Berkeley Poetry Festival (May 5). Matson is a fixture of the Bay Area, a longtime poet and teacher who has influenced many. Matson’s books include the instructional Let the Crazy Child Write! Finding Your Creative Writing Voice (1998) as well as poetry books Space Age (1969), Heroin (1972), On the Inside (1982), Equal in Desire (1983), Hourglass (1987), Squish Boots (2002), Chalcedony’s Songs (2007, 2009), and the early Mainline to the Heart (1966, reissued 2009). About the latter Jack writes, “This book is not likely to persuade anyone to become an addict...
2012-04-1804 minKPFA - Cover to Cover with Jack FoleyCover to Cover with Jack Foley – April 11, 2012Jack Foley honors National Poetry Month with selections from Poetpourri, a collection he put together for KPFA in 2005. You will hear the actual voices of Langston Hughes, Stuart Perkoff, James Broughton, Lawrence Ferlinghetti (singing to Jack’s guitar accompaniment), and Sylvia Plath.
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2012-04-1104 minKPFA - Cover to Cover with Jack FoleyCover to Cover with Jack Foley – February 15, 2012Jack’s premium is Sketches Poetical, a 72-page collection of 60 sketches of poets and writers by nonagenarian Berkeley artist Helen Breger with poetic commentary by Jack Foley. The book also has a CD of Foley reading selections from the book. Sketches Poetical is a limited edition “artist’s book”—not a trade publication. It is currently available only through KPFA, not through amazon.com or abebooks.com or anywhere else on the internet. Jack Foley notes, “Writing is a form of drawing” and asks of his subjects, “What do their looks/ tell of their books?”
Poet Jake Berry writes of Sk...
2012-02-1504 minKPFA - Cover to Cover with Jack FoleyCover to Cover with Jack Foley – February 1, 2012Jack’s premium is Sketches Poetical, a 72-page collection of 60 sketches of poets and writers by nonagenarian Berkeley artist Helen Breger with poetic commentary by Jack Foley. The book also has a CD of Foley reading selections from the book. Sketches Poetical is a limited edition “artist’s book”—not a trade publication. It is currently available only through KPFA, not through amazon.com or abebooks.com or anywhere else on the internet. Jack Foley notes, “Writing is a form of drawing” and asks of his subjects, “What do their looks/ tell of their books?”
Poet Jake Berry writes of Sk...
2012-02-0104 minKPFA - Cover to Cover with Jack FoleyCover to Cover with Jack Foley – March 23, 2011Today’s show is a presentation of Jack Foley’s essay on his onetime teacher, Paul de Man. Jack writes,
Between the time I knew de Man in the early 1960s and his death in 1983, his workunderwent a considerable change of direction—a change of direction which Iwill not attempt to trace here. I willconcentrate on the early de Man rather than the later because it was that de Man whohad the greatest impact on my thinkingImagine the effect of words like these—from the...
2011-03-2304 minKPFA - Cover to Cover with Jack FoleyCover to Cover with Jack Foley – July 7, 2010Sean Foley, Jack's son, has published his first book, The Arab Gulf States: Beyond Oil and Islam from Lynne Rienner Publishers. About the book Agnieszka Paczynska writes, "This engaging study of the political, social, and cultural dynamics of the Arab Gulf states demonstrates that popular images do not reflect the much more complex reality…. Foley presents a compelling picture of the region." Sean teaches at Middle Tennessee State University. Part One of two.
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2010-07-0704 minKPFA - Cover to Cover with Jack FoleyCover to Cover with Jack Foley – January 27, 2010Tables turned. East Coast poet Lee Slonimsky interviews Jack Foley about Jack’s work.
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2010-01-2704 minKPFA - Cover to Cover with Jack FoleyCover to Cover with Jack Foley – May 20, 2009The first of two shows in which Jack Foley presents excerpts from his 2005 collection, produced for KPFA, Poetpourri. Foley describes the collection as “a testimony to the sheer diversity of American and English poetic expression in the 20th century. Though various themes emerge, there is no one theme—or even two or three—to make it all ‘cohere.’ (These people cannot even agree on how a poem should be recited.) It’s a potpourri, a poetpourri.”
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2009-05-2004 minKPFA - Cover to Cover with Jack FoleyCover to Cover with Jack Foley – Words & Books, Poetry & WritingTo celebrate National Poetry Month, Jack and Adelle Foley present “Words & Books, Poetry & Writing,” a consideration of the history of poetry, the relationship of writing to poetry, and poetry’s relationship to conceptions of selfhood. This speech from Foley’s book, O Powerful Western Star, will be punctuated with performances of poems.
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2009-04-0104 minKPFA - Cover to Cover with Jack FoleyCover to Cover with Jack Foley – September 3, 2008In "A Letter to Silvana" Jack Foley writes to a young painter about Foley’s core unbeliefs and the problem of their expression in poetry.
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2008-09-0304 minKPFA - Cover to Cover with Jack FoleyCover to Cover with Jack Foley – August 27, 2008Alabama poet, visual artist, singer, songwriter Jake Berry is the focus of today’s program. Jack Foley plays selections from Berry’s new CD, Liminal Blue. Jack Random writes, "Folk and blues [are] the genres chosen, a pleasant voice, a soothing sound but the words are like mystic bullets. They cannot physically harm you but they can scare you, shock you or burrow under your skin and haunt you."
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2008-08-2704 minKPFA - Cover to Cover with Jack FoleyCover to Cover with Jack Foley – May 28, 2008"On Poetry," a program in celebration of the art of poetry. Jack will read a short talk he gave "on poetry" and then you will hear selections, for the most part read by the actual author, from Walt Whitman, Ted Joans, Charles Olson, Benjamin Bagby (reading from Beowulf), J.R.R. Tolkien, Maya Angelou, Katherine Hastings, Jack Foley, and Bertolt Brecht.
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2008-05-2804 minKPFA - Cover to Cover with Jack FoleyCover to Cover with Jack Foley – April 23, 2008Jack Foley’s guests are poets David Bromige and Rychard Denner, who have produced a collaborative work, Spade, "a dialogue between a Buddhist monk and a terminal atheist." Foley talks to the poets about their individual works as well. Part one of two.
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2008-04-2304 minKPFA - Cover to Cover with Jack FoleyCover to Cover with Jack Foley – April 9, 2008For National Poetry Month, Jack Foley presents commentary on and a reading of the ancient Anglo-Saxon poem, Beowulf. Foley also discusses the recent film version of the poem and plays Benjamin Bagby’s recitation of the original Anglo Saxon. Part one of two.
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2008-04-0904 minKPFA - Cover to Cover with Jack FoleyCover to Cover with Jack Foley – November 14, 2007A tribute to Ray Bradbury as poet. Among the readers of Bradbury’s poems are Adelle Foley, Lynn Trombetta, Jack Foley, Richard Denner, Bill Vartnaw, and Katherine Hastings.
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2007-11-1404 minKPFA - Cover to Cover with Jack FoleyCover to Cover with Jack Foley – December 7, 2005Jack Foley’s tribute to brilliant, alcoholic, self-destructive Berkeley poet Jack Spicer (1925-1965). The program will include a recording of Spicer reading a poem.
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2005-12-0704 minKPFA - Cover to Cover with Jack FoleyCover to Cover with Jack Foley – April 27, 2005H.D. Moe
Jack Foley’s guest is "one-man experimental movement" H.D. Moe, a poet
whose presence has enlivened the Bay Area literary scene for decades. Moe
discusses several of his books, including Birth to Birth–and its "buggy ride into the sweet unknown." First of two interviews. In today’s last show in this series, H.D. Moe and Jack Foley read from H.D. Moe’s work.
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2005-04-2704 minKPFA - Cover to Cover with Jack FoleyCover to Cover with Jack Foley – August 4, 2004Jack Foley. Poets Against the War, a selection of poems from the web site read by Jack Foley, is the premium offered. Today’s show will present some of the CD.
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2004-08-0404 minKPFA - Cover to Cover with Jack FoleyCover to Cover with Jack Foley – March 3, 2004Beat Haiku. Jack Foley reads a talk he gave at the convention of The Haiku Society of American in December, 2003. The talk deals with ways in which the Beat Generation, particularly, Jack Kerouac, made use of the poetic form, haiku.
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