Charla Cultural

Aug 19 2022 61 mins 5

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Charla Cultural is a little chat about culture, focusing on performances and interviews with women, LGBTQIA, BIPOC and other marginalized artists working in literature, music, and the arts. Charla Cultural is sponsored by Aster(ix) Journal and City of Asylum, and it's hosted by Karla Lamb and Adriana E. Ramírez. Season Two started in April 2022. Episodes drop every-other Fridays.

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Moving Clouds with Ingrid Rojas Contreras

Aug 19 2022 59 mins

We’re moving clouds with Ingrid Rojas Contreras. Ingrid Rojas Contreras is an award-winning author who was born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia. Her essays and short stories have appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Electric Literature, Guernica, and Huffington Post, among others. She is the book columnist for KQED, the Bay Area's NPR affiliate. We’ll start with a clip

Looking Back at Jazz Poetry

Aug 05 2022 59 mins

We’re LOOKING BACK at Jazz Poetry. Jazz Poetry has celebrated the fusion of music and language for over 18 years. Musicians and poets are brought together by City of Asylum to experiment, collaborate, connect and to express themselves freely, yielding performances greater than their parts . Over the years, Jazz Poetry has featured hundreds of artists from hundreds of countr

Eating Fire with Jose Hernandez Diaz

Jul 08 2022 59 mins

We’re eating fire with Jose Hernandez Diaz Jose Hernandez Diaz is a 2017 NEA Poetry Fellow. He holds degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, and Antioch University Los Angeles. His work appears in The Best American Nonrequired Reading, Green Mountains Review, Huizache, New Orleans Review, North American Review, The Progressive, Witness, among others. He has served as

Digging into the Unknown with Daniel Borzutzky

Jun 17 2022 58 mins

Daniel Borzutzky is the author of Lake Michigan, finalist for the 2019 Griffin International Poetry Prize; The Performance of Becoming Human, which received the 2016 National Book Award. His other books include In the Murmurs of the Rotten Carcass Economy (2015); Memories of my Overdevelopment (2015); and The Book of Interfering Bodies (2011). He teaches in the English and Latin Am

Turning Tables with Patrick Rosal

May 13 2022 57 mins

We're turning tables with Patrick Rosal. Patrick Rosal is the award winning author of four books of poetry: Boneshepherds, My American Kundiman, Uprock Headspin Scramble and Dive, and Brooklyn Antediluvian. He is a Guggenheim fellow and lives in New Jersey. We'll be talking white space in poetry, our sister cultures, and scatological poetics. We'll also talk about my upcomin

Peeling Oranges with Ada Limón

Apr 29 2022 63 mins

We’re peeling oranges with Ada Limón. Ada Limón is the award-winning author of the poetry collections The Carrying, Bright Dead Things, and several other books, poems, and essays. We'll be talking about voice, faith, and answering the most impossible question of all: what is poetry? We'll also be talking about comics and revenge monsters.

Burning Things Down with Brian Broome

Apr 15 2022 59 mins

BRIAN BROOME’s debut memoir, Punch Me Up to the Gods, is New York Times Editor’s Pick and the winner of the 2021 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction. His work has appeared in The Washington Post, Poets and Writers, Medium, and more. We're talking structure, fires, and what to tell your mother when you write about how much you hate her. We’ll start with a clip of Brian answering

Naming Ghosts with Chiwan Choi

Apr 01 2022 59 mins

It's the SEASON TWO premier and we're naming ghosts with Chiwan Choi. Chiwan Choi is a poet and the author of The Flood, Abductions, and The Yellow House. Choi is currently working on a fourth book titled my name is wolf. Choi is also the host of the new paranormal/literary podcast, Are You There, Ghost? It's Me, Chiwan. We’ll start with the trailer for A

Celebrating Cave Canem Part 2

Aug 12 2021 51 mins

For our season finale, we’re celebrating more Cave Canem poets to honor their 25th anniversary!! With performances by the poets Lyrae Van Clief-Stefan, Evie Shockley, Kevin Young, and Dawn Lundy Martin. Founded by Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady in 1996 to remedy the under-representation and isolation of African American poets in the literary landscape, Cave Canem Foundation is

Breaking It Down with S. Brook Corfman

Jul 22 2021 70 mins

We're breaking It Down with S. Brook Corfman. S. Brook Corfman is the author of My Daily Actions, or The Meteorites, one of The New York Times’ Best Poetry Books of 2020, a finalist for the Publishing Triangle’s Trans & Gender-Variant Lit Award, and the winner of the Fordham University Press POL poetry prize judged by Cathy Park Hong. They are also the author of the collect