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 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. -
Bay Poetssoledad con carne is a casually queer, intergalactic Oakland, Ohlone-based chicanx punk poet, working, poor multiple high school drop-out bookstore lackey, poet laureate of the San Fernando Valley, and blatant smoker sharing-trauma-with-their-mother. -
Bay PoetsDr. Naomi Helena Quiñonez, Chicana poet, educator and activist, is the author of three collections of poetry: Hummingbird Dream/Sueño de Colibri, The Smoking Mirror and The Exiled Moon. -
Bay PoetsUS-born Punjabi poet Taneesh Kaur does the brave thing and allows us into her North American experience with her poem "Living on the edge of Ohio with Kentucky." -
Bay PoetsToday eco griot and abolitionist Ashia Ajani reads us an excerpt from her powerful and luminous poem "Durag" -
Bay PoetsMaw Shein Win reading us her poem "The Grisham House". This poem will be featured in Maw's upcoming poetry collection "PERCUSSING THE THINKING JAR." -
Bay PoetsBay Area poeta Flavia Elisa Mora celebrates queer brown love by reading us an excerpt from her poem. -
Bay PoetsAmerican Egyptian poet Antony Fangary takes us to his grandfather's wake and to other deep family moments in his poem. -
Bay PoetsBrennan DeFrisco is a multiracial white male poet, voice actor & teaching artist from the Bay Area by way of Portland, Oregon. His book of poetry "Honeysuckle & Nightshade" was published this year by Swimming With Elephants Publications. -
Bay PoetsOakland poet by way of Fresno, Sara Borjas tells us the stone cold truth with her poem.
