Bay Poets
Mondays at 7:19 am and 3:48 pm, Saturdays at 6:04 am
A weekly poetry segment featuring Bay Area poets reading their own poems in their own voices. Launched in February 2022, the segment was created and produced by KALW News Editor Shia Levitt. Since January 2023, the segment has been produced and hosted by veteran local poet Josiah Luis Alderete, who is also the co-owner of Medicine For Nightmares book shop and event space in San Francisco's Mission District.
Latest Episodes
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Bay PoetsToday Youssef Alaoui gives us a poetic tour of that wondrous place we call Oakland. -
Bay PoetsAriel Neidermeier is a first generation descendant of Filipino immigrants. Her writing explores themes of freedom, sovereignty, and lineages of survival. -
Bay PoetsJapanese-American poet Lauren Ito gives us a beautiful ancestral reminder. Here's Lauren reading her poem "Arrival As We." -
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Bay PoetsMaria Guerrero is a proud daughter of immigrant parents and of her Mexican raices. She is a teacher by day and unable poeta at 3am cuando las muses won't let her sleep. Born and raised in Bayview-Hunters Point, and living en la casa de sun padres, she centers her work around familia, comunidad, and healing. -
Bay PoetsNorth Beach poet Andrew Paul Nelson reads his poem "This Tuesday I'm Voting for the Sun." -
Bay PoetsPlaywright, essayist and poet Jose Vadi gives us a genuine tactical rumination on this pesky thing we call "tech." -
Bay PoetsReyna OG is a Poet, Artist, Mama, life adventurer, born to La Misión and raised in Richmond now Living in Berkeley. Reyna writes to heal ancestral, childhood, and mujer wounds along with full Spanish poems to convey a love lived and lost in the language my heart felt it. -
Bay PoetsTo send off this Poetry Month Guy Biederman is here to give us the inside scoop on some of the strange social proclivities of those beings known as poets. -
Bay PoetsCarlos Quinteros III is a poet with an occasional stutter, stumbling through language, living in San Francisco/the ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone People. He is the managing editor and one of the poetry editors for The Ana, a literary magazine based in the Bay area.
