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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Guy Biederman is a former peace corps volunteer, creative writing college instructor, and author of six books. He lives on a houseboat and walks the planks daily.
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Alexiz Angel Romero (they/she) is a first-gen Latine poet alchemist from Oxnard, California, now residing in San Pancho on occupied Ramaytush Ohlone land. Alexiz’s works center on the experiences she has faced as a queer person of color, transness, innocence, rawness, and passerby tales of hustling and struggle.
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Today we will be listening to San Francisco's 8th poet laureate and people's revolutionary Tongo Eisen-Martin.
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Jenny Qi is a Chinese-American poet living in San Francisco. Her book of poetry "Focal Point" was published in 2021 by STB.
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Lucian Mattison reads his poem "Umbilical" which appears in his third full-length collection of poetry "Curare" and was first published in "The Acentos Review."
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Poet Landon Smith reads his poem "Bringing a Poem to a Fistfight."
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Poet Keana Aguila Labra reads their poem, "What If We Didn't Die" after Bayani Bala and Maria Bolaños.