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Out of Our Minds on KKUPImaginary Animal Test RecordingImaginary Animal Test Recording by Poetita2021-06-1205 min
Out of Our Minds on KKUPRachelle At Henry Miller LibraryRachelle escamilla is a Chicana poet from Hollister, California. her nationally award winning first book is slated to become an off broadway play. Rachelle is the founder of a number of poetry programs all over the world, she is a scholar recognized by the Library of Congress and a community-based activist whose research and work includes the fair treatment of migrant workers, anti-fracking and most recently the Decriminalization of Psilocybin. She lives in Monterey, Ca and does media and marketing for the Philip Glass Days and Nights Festival.2020-08-2413 min
Out of Our Minds on KKUPJames Cordero of Border Angels Water DropJames Cordero, Co-director of Water Drops for Border Angels San Diego.2020-04-1414 min
Out of Our Minds on KKUPMarcelo Hernandez Castillo and Nathan Xavier Osorio on KKUPMarcelo Hernandez Castillo is a poet, essayist, translator, and immigration advocate. He earned a BA at Sacramento State University and is the first undocumented student to earn an MFA at the University of Michigan. In this pre-recorded reading, Marcelo is reading from and discussing his groundbreaking, debut novel, Children of the Land. In conversation with Castillo is Nathan Xavier Osorio who is also a poet and essayist. This interview was recorded on February 11, 2020 at Book Shop Santa Cruz.2020-03-051h 01
Out of Our Minds on KKUPTim J Myers on KKUP"In All the Fierce Complexities of Hunger, Tim J. Myers shows a poetic range that is astonishing. It seems impossible, but his book is a masterful collection of poems both traditional and experimental, both lyric and narrative, both funny and serious, both comforting and disturbing, both long and short, both contemporary and historical. Is there anything he can’t do? It would appear not, as I was wowed from the first poem--with its linguistic nod to Gerard Manley Hopkins--to the last, with its gorgeous echoes of W. S. Merwin. This is one of those rare books that will, in some wa...2020-02-131h 01
Out of Our Minds on KKUPMatt Sedillo on KKUPMatt Sedillo is a Chicano poet, writer, creative director and public intellectual. He has been called “the poet laureate of the struggle” by Dr. Paul Ortiz and “the best political poet in America” by investigative journalist Greg Palast. Sedillo has been featured at over 90 colleges and universities including the University of Cambridge and a recent appearance at San Jose City College. He has been invited by countless cultural institutions, including Casa De Las Americas and has been featured on various media outlets including The Associated Press, Los Angeles Times and C-Span. He is the current literary director of the Center for the...2020-02-061h 01
Out of Our Minds on KKUPASHA on KKUPIN HINDI MEANING HOPE
ASHA is an Artist, Educator, and Revolutionary.
Originally from LA, ASHA is currently an 8th grade teacher in San Jose. She is an international poet, striving to use art to create radical change.
ASHA has been featured on the cover of Content Magazine, is a feature at many of the prominent poetry events in the Bay Area, as well as active speaker, emcee, and performer at numerous rallies and marches for civil and human rights. ASHA was the focus of a recent short documentary by KQED ARTS.
She was given the Hank Hutchins award by the...2020-01-161h 01
Out of Our Minds on KKUPMK Chavez on KKUPOakland-based writer MK Chavez is a champion for public health and social justice. She is the author of several chapbooks, including MOTHERMORPHOSIS (Nomadic Press, 2016). DEAR ANIMAL, is her first full-length collection of poetry. Chavez is co-founder and co-curator of the reading series Lyrics & Dirges, curator of the Fruitvale Friday readings at Nomadic Press, co-director of the Berkeley Poetry Festival, and recipient of a 2016 Alameda County Arts Leadership Award. She believes in literary confrontation and its capacity to challenge all forms of oppression.2020-01-091h 01
Out of Our Minds on KKUPArisa White on KKUP"She approaches words as reference points, rather than endpoints. By reimagining language, she exerts control over her sense of self.”—Los Angeles Review of Books
ARISA WHITE is a Cave Canem fellow, Sarah Lawrence College alumna, an MFA graduate from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and author of the poetry chapbooks Disposition for Shininess, Post Pardon, Black Pearl, Perfect on Accident, and “Fish Walking” & Other Bedtime Stories for My Wife won the inaugural Per Diem Poetry Prize. Published by Virtual Artists Collective, her debut full-length collection, Hurrah’s Nest, was a finalist for the 2013 Wheatley Book Awards, 82nd California Book Awards, an...2019-12-121h 01
Los Poetas1. Reggaeton y másPrimer podcast hablando de Reggaeton y muchas cosas más. Comparando Reggaeton de los tiempo de Renato (El Poeta Mayor) con el Reggaeton de de ahora la epoca de Kenny (El Poetita). 2019-10-0332 min
Out of Our Minds on KKUPLee Ann Roripaugh on KKUPA Wyoming native and second-generation Japanese American, Roripaugh studied music, earning a BM in piano performance and an MM in music history before earning an MFA in creative writing from Indiana University, Bloomington. She is the author of Beyond Heart Mountain (1999), which was selected by Ishmael Reed for the National Poetry Series; Year of the Snake (2004); On the Cusp of a Dangerous Year (2009); and Dandarians (Milkweed, 2014). In 2015 she was appointed poet laureate of South Dakota.
In Beyond Heart Mountain, Roripaugh drew on her heritage and life in the American West to create a series of portraits in the voices of...2019-05-091h 01
Out of Our Minds on KKUPManuel Paul Lopez on KKUPManuel Paul López’s books include These Days of Candy (Noemi Press, 2017), The Yearning Feed (University of Notre Dame Press, 2013), winner of the Ernest Sandeen Poetry Prize, 1984 (Amsterdam Press, 2010) and Death of a Mexican and Other Poems (Bear Star Press, 2006). He also co-edited Reclaiming Our Stories (City Works Press, 2016). A CantoMundo fellow, his work has been published in Bilingual Review, Denver Quarterly, Hanging Loose, Huizache, Puerto del Sol, and ZYZZYVA, among others. He lives in San Diego and teaches at San Diego City College.2019-04-041h 01
Out of Our Minds on KKUPToi Derricotte & Naomi Edwards on KKUPToi Derricotte is an American poet and recently retired from her post at University of Pittsburgh where she taught writing. Toi won a 2012 Pen Award for Poetry and is the co-founder with Cornelius Eady of Cave Canem Foundation, a summer workshop for African-American poets.
Naomi Edwards holds degrees from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and University of Pittsburgh. Her poetry has appeared in Tupelo Quarterly. She lives in Pittsburgh.
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Out of Our Minds on KKUPRob Ruck on KKUPRob Ruck is a professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh. His documentaries include The Republic of Baseball: Dominican Giants of the American Game. He has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, Salon, and other publications and is the author of Tropic of Football: The Remarkable and Bittersweet Rise of Samoans in the NFL (The New Press). He lives in Pittsburgh.2018-10-251h 01
Out of Our Minds on KKUPJoseph Lease at City Lights Books on KKUPJoseph Lease's critically acclaimed books of poetry include The Body Ghost (Coffee House Press, 2018), Testify (Coffee House Press, 2011), and Broken World (Coffee House Press, 2007). Lease’s poems "'Broken World' (For James Assatly)" and "Send My Roots Rain" were anthologized in Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology. "'Broken World' (For James Assatly)" was also anthologized in The Best American Poetry (Robert Creeley, guest editor). Lease's poem “Free Again (Why don’t people)” was published in the New York Times.
With Peter Alvarez.2018-10-041h 01
Out of Our Minds on KKUPReading at the Library of Congress Hispanic DivisionI'm the producer and host of the longest running poetry radio show in the United States: Out of Our Minds on KKUP. I co-founded Sun Yat-sen University's English-language Center for Creative Writing and headed a lecture series at the American Center of the United States Consulate of Guangzhou called "Literature of the Margins." I am the founder of the Poets & Writers Coalition at San Jose State University, the winner of the Virginia de Arujo Academy of American Poets prize and my first book, Imaginary Animal (Willow Books 2015) won their national prize in poetry. I teach Creative Writing and Social Action...2018-09-131h 01
Out of Our Minds on KKUPJose-Luis Moctezuma on KKUPBorn in San Gabriel, CA, Jose-Luis Moctezuma is a Mexican-American poet, translator, and editor whose poetic and critical work has been published in Jacket2, Big Bridge, Chicago Review, MAKE Magazine,
FlashPoint,Cerise Press, and elsewhere. His chapbook, Spring Tlaloc Seance, was published by Projective Industries in 2016. His manuscript, Place-Discipline, was selected by Myung Mi Kim as the winner of the 2017 Omnidawn 1st/2nd Poetry Book Prize. Place-Discipline is forthcoming in Fall 2018. Moctezuma is completing a PhD in English at the University of Chicago, where he works on anglophone modernism, the poetics of automatism, avant-garde
politics, and visual cultures.2018-03-151h 01
Out of Our Minds on KKUPMay-lee Chai & Cinequest Poets on KKUPThe show begins with Kimy Martinez, Bill Cozzini, and vocalist Lena Nelson read from their upcoming performance at Cinequest 2018.
May-lee Chai is the author of eight books, including three novels, My Lucky Face, Dragon Chica, and Tiger Girl; two works of memoir, The Girl from Purple Mountain (co-authored with her father, Winberg Chai) and Hapa Girl; a collection of short stories and essays, Glamorous Asians; a nonfiction book about the culture and history of China, China A to Z (also co-authored with Winberg Chai); and her translation into English of the Chinese author Ba Jin’s 1934 Autobiography (Ba Jin Zi Zh...2018-02-081h 00
Out of Our Minds on KKUPRichard Jeffrey Newman on KKUPAs a poet and essayist, Richard Jeffrey Newman’s work explores the impact of feminism on his life as a man. As a co-translator of classical Persian poetry, he writes about the impact of that canon on our contemporary lives. He has published two books of poetry, Words for What Those Men Have Done (Guernica Editions 2017) and The Silence of Men (CavanKerry Press 2006). He has also published a chapbook of poetry, For My Son, A Kind of Prayer (Ghostbird Press 2016), as well as three books of translation from classical Persian poetry, most recently The Teller of Tales: Stories from Ferdowsi’s Sh...2018-01-181h 00
Out of Our Minds on KKUPRaoul Fernandes on KKUPRaoul Fernandes lives and writes in Vancouver, with his wife and two sons. His first collection of poems, Transmitter and Receiver (Nightwood Editions, 2015) won the Dorothy Livesay Award and the Debut-litzer Award for Poetry in 2016 and was a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award and the Canadian Authors Association Award for Poetry. He has been published in numerous literary journals and anthologies, including the Best Canadian Poetry 2015.2017-07-131h 00
Out of Our Minds on KKUPStephanie Elizondo Griest on KKUPALL THE AGENTS AND SAINTS
DISPATCHES FROM THE U.S. BORDERLANDS
University of North Carolina Press
July 2017
After a decade of chasing stories around the globe, intrepid travel writer Stephanie Elizondo Griest followed the magnetic pull home–only to discover that her native South Texas had been radically transformed in her absence. Ravaged by drug wars and barricaded by an eighteen-foot steel wall, her ancestral land had become the nation’s foremost crossing ground for undocumented workers, many of whom perished along the way. Before Elizondo Griest moved to the New York/Canada borderlands, the frequency of these tragedies seemed like...2017-07-061h 00
Out of Our Minds on KKUPAngela Narciso Torres on KKUPAngela Narciso Torres’s poetry collection, Blood Orange, won the Willow Books Literature Award for Poetry. Her work appears in Spoon River Poetry Review, Nimrod, Colorado Review, CimarrOn Review, Drunken Boat, and others. She is a graduate of Warren Wilson MFA Program and Harvard Graduate School of Education, Angela has received fellowships from Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Illinois Arts Council, and Ragdale Foundation. New City magazine named her one of Chicago’s Lit 50 in 2016. Born in Brooklyn and raised in Manila, she is a senior poetry editor for RHINO and a reader for New England Review. For more information, please visit...2017-06-221h 00
Out of Our Minds on KKUPAyaz Pirani's Favorite Poems on KKUPAyaz Pirani was born in Musoma, Tanzania, to parents born in Kapsabet, Kenya, and Tanga, Tanzania. He grew up in Canada and studied Humanities and Writing at Collège Glendon in Toronto and Concordia University in Montreal. At Vermont College of Fine Arts, Pirani was a student of the late Jack Myers. HAPPY YOU ARE HERE (The Word Works, 2016) is his first book. He lives near Monterey, California.2017-05-111h 00
Out of Our Minds on KKUPAyaz Pirani on KKUPOut of Our Minds is a 45 year old radio show hosted every Wednesday night on KKUP Cupertino 91.5fm in the Bay Area and streaming live on KKUP.org. The show's producer and host is Rachelle Escamilla, aka Poetita.
Ayaz Pirani was born in Musoma, Tanzania to parents born in Kapsabet and Tanga. He grew up in Canada and studied Humanities and Writing at Glendon College in Toronto and Concordia University in Montreal. At Vermont College of Fine Arts, Ayaz was a student of the late Jack Myers. Happy You Are Here (The Word Works 2016) is his first book.2016-10-061h 00
Out of Our Minds on KKUPAngie Chuang on KKUPOut of Our Minds is the second longest running poetry radio show in the United States and airs on Wednesday nights from 8-9pm on KKUP Cupertino 91.5fm. The show is hosted by Rachelle Escamilla.
Angie Chuang is an author and educator based in Washington, D.C. She is the author of The Four Words for Home (Willow Books, 2014), a duel memoir about an Afghan immigrant family and her own Chinese American family. The book was the winner of the 2013 Willow Books Literature Awards Grand Prize in Prose, and has won an Independent Publishers Awards Bronze Medal for Multicultural Nonfiction...2016-08-251h 00
Out of Our Minds on KKUPCedric Tillman on KKUPOut of Our Minds is a 45 year old Poetry Radio show hosted on KKUP Cupertino 91.5fm on Wednesday nights from 8-9pm in the Bay Area or beyond the bay - streaming live on kkup.org. The show's host is Rachelle Escamilla aka Poetita. Contact Rachelle at www.poetita.com
Cedric Tillman holds a BA in English from UNC Charlotte and graduated from American University's Creative Writing MFA program. He is a Cave Canem Fellow, two-time Pushcart Award nominee, and a former Nation Magazine (now Boston Review) "Discovery" contest semifinalist. Cedric's poems appear in several publications including Rove, Apogee Magazine...2016-08-041h 00
Out of Our Minds on KKUPJoseph Ross on KKUPJoseph Ross is the author of three books of poetry, Ache (forthcoming 2017), Gospel of Dust (2013), and Meeting Bone Man (2012). His poetry has appeared in a wide variety of publications including The Los Angeles Times, Poet Lore, Tidal Basin Review, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, and Sojourners. His work appears in many anthologies including Collective Brightness, Poetic Voices without Borders 1 and 2, Full Moon on K Street, and Come Together; Imagine Peace. He recently served as the 23rd Poet-in-Residence for the Howard County Poetry and Literature Society, just outside Washington, D.C. He is a six-time Pushcart Prize nominee and his poem “If Mamie Ti...2016-07-141h 00
Out of Our Minds on KKUPHari Alluri on KKUPOut of Our Minds is the second longest running poetry radio show in America hosted on KKUP Cupertino (The People's Radio) by Rachelle Escamilla aka Poetita. The show airs live every Wednesday night from 8-9pm on 91.5fm or www.kkup.org
Hari Alluri is co-founding editor of Locked Horn Press, a community facilitator, and a poet. His work appears in B OD Y, Chautauqua, Contemporary Verse 2, Poetry International,Word Riot and Dismantle (Thread Makes Blanket). He is the author of Carving Ashes (CiCAC).2016-06-091h 00
Out of Our Minds on KKUPRandall Horton on KKUPRandall Horton is the author of The Definition of Place (2006) and Lingua Franca of Ninth Street (2009), both from Main Street Rag. His poetry prizes include the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Award and the Bea González Prize for Poetry. He has an MFA from Chicago State University and a PhD from SUNY Albany. Horton is a Cave Canem Fellow, a member of the Affrilachian Poets, and associate professor of English at the University of New Haven. He also serves as senior editor for Willow Books and editor-in-chief for Tidal Basin Review.2016-03-241h 00
Out of Our Minds on KKUPAmy Wright on KKUPAmy Wright is the Nonfiction Editor of Zone 3 Press, Coordinator of Creative Writing and Associate Professor at Austin Peay State University, and the author of Everything in the Universe and Cracker Sonnets, both forthcoming in 2016. Her writing appears in a number of journals including Kenyon Review, Southern Poetry Anthology (Volumes III and VI), and Tupelo Quarterly. She was awarded a Peter Taylor Fellowship for the Kenyon Review Writers’ Workshop, an Individual Artist’s Fellowship from the Tennessee Arts Commission, and a fellowship to the VCCA. The author of four poetry chapbooks, her first prose chapbook, Wherever the Land Is, is sche...2016-03-031h 00
Out of Our Minds on KKUPMarc Zegans on KKUPMarc Zegans is a creative development advisor, he's spent more than twenty years helping individuals, arts organizations and creatively driven enterprises successfully follow their muse. Marc works with artists charting next steps, writers moving through blocks, creative organizations in transition, musicians seeking sustainable income, artists planning their creative legacies, business owners craving a more rewarding work life, and many others.
He is also the author of this awesome book, The Underwater Typewriter out by Pelekinesis Press.2016-01-071h 00
Out of Our Minds on KKUPLuis Valdez on KKUPLuis Valdez (born June 26, 1940) is an American playwright, actor, writer and film director. Regarded as the father of Chicano theater in the United States,[1] Valdez is best known for his play Zoot Suit, his movie La Bamba, and his creation of El Teatro Campesino. A pioneer in the Chicano Movement, Valdez broadened the scope of theatre and arts of the Chicano community.
Rolan Resendiz is an organizer of a new mural in Hollister supporting the vision of Phillip Ray Orobuena with Joel Esqueda.2015-12-241h 00