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 PoetsFor Poetry Month we are revisting San Francisco poet Q.R. Hand Jr.'s 1983 reading at the South Market Cultural Center. -
Bay PoetsFor Poetry month we are gonna listen to recordings from iconic San Francisco Poets. Here’s Al Robles reading his poem “Cold Mountain in Chinatown” on November 10th 1976 in the Barbary Coast Room of the César Chavez Student Center at San Francisco State. -
Bay PoetsToday, we hear Alejandro Murgia reading an excerpt from his poem “O California” which he performed at the Poetry Center at SF State on October 25th 1978. -
Bay PoetsWe could all use a love poem right about now so here's Blas Falconer with his sweet poem "For A Spell" -
Bay PoetsNia Pearl is an award-winning poet, writer, environmental justice advocate working at the intersection of art, activism, and public engagement. -
Bay PoetsMaw Shein Win is a Burmese American poet who lives and teaches in the San Francisco Bay Area. She served as the inaugural Poet laureate of El Cerrito, California from 2016 to 2018. -
Bay PoetsOakland poet James Cagney shares with us a quiet and deep family memory. -
Bay PoetsJelal Huyler is a biracial Black poet from Oakland and born to a revolutionary Black woman. He is carrying on throughout this dissociative so-called reality in pursuit of the always present truth and healing. -
Today we will be listening to musician and poet Camellia Boutros read an excerpt from her poem -
Bay PoetsToday, Thomas Dunn shares with us one of those damn romantic moments that we can all recognize.
