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 PoetsBriana Victoria Leung is a 19-year-old Bay Area based queer non-binary Afro Asian Latinx storyteller and healer who has been writing, performing and competing in the local slam poetry scene for the last eight years. -
Bay PoetsRolando André López Torres is an Afro-Hispanic Puerto Rican poet who lives in La Mission and teaches children in East Oakland. -
Karla Brundage is a Bay Area based poet, activist, and educator with a passion for social justice. She is also the founder of West Oakland to West Africa Poetry Exchange. -
Cassandra Dallett lives in Oakland CA. Cassandra has published multiple chapbooks and full-length books of poetry. She has been nominated for six Pushcart Prizes and was recently in the running for Oakland’s first Poet Laureate. -
soledad 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 Area poet and essayist A.A. Vincent reads from their first book of poetry "Person, Perceived Girl." -
Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta is a Jewish Nicaragüense poet and artist who came up in the unceded lands of the Tongva people. Their poems are rough sketches for weapons and spells against empire. -
Shizue Seigel is a 3rd-generation Japanese American writer, visual artist and community activist who explores identity, cultural, and socopoitical history and intergenerational legacies through prose, poetry and visual art. -
Hilary Cruz Meija reads their poem "Hablemos del amor." They are a queer Guatemalan poeta callejeando en las esquinas de la bay area. -
K.R. Morrison is a Bay Area poet, drummer, and educator who since the pandemic, splits her time between San Francisco and Southern California. Her first chapbook, "Cauldrons" was published by PaperPress Books, and her poetry can be found in a variety of publications.
