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, outgoing poet Laureate of San Francisco the one and only Tongo Eisen-Martin hits us with the cold hard truth. -
Bay PoetsToday San Jose poet Lorenz Mazon Dumuk introduces us to his beautiful chosen family. -
Bay PoetsToday we are blessed to hear a tender decolonized reminder by poeta Xavi Burgos. -
Bay PoetsToday Oakland poet Michael Gallagher tells us about a BART ride we can all relate to. -
Bay PoetsToday's powerful and beautiful poem is brought to us by the poverty skola herself tiny gray-garcia. -
Bay PoetsToday Susana Praver-Perez gives us a poem that travels between Oakland and Puerto Rico. -
Bay PoetsPaul Corman Roberts is a founder and current organizer of the Beast Crawl Lit Festival in Oakland CA. He currently teaches workshops for the San Francisco Creative Writing Institute. -
Bay PoetsToday, San Francisco poet Abraham Garcia waxes lyrically for us in that universal language of love. -
Bay PoetsToday Latine poet and cenote coyote Angel Dominguez brings us a poem that exists in the past, present, and future. -
Bay PoetsToday we are bringing you a true poetic diddy from San Francisco poet and ex mailman Charlie Getter.
