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Brittney Corrigan and Jodie Marion walk the tightrope of employment, mariage and childrearing while performing a dazzling juggling act with poems that skillfully dance between family and children and the the larger 21st century world we move in. On tonight’s Talking Earth t... Read more

Faultlines is a brand new journal of West Coast poetry that aims to be a venue for poetry that is engaging, accessible, and fine. Editor Tony Pfannenstiel has assembled a collection from 70 poets up and down the West Coast, both well known and emerging, young and old. Their... Read more

Tonight’s Talking Earth features two of Portland’s most talented women artists: Leanne Grabel and Penelope Scambly Schott as they read and discuss growing up female in America. Leanne will read from her newest book, Brontosaurus: Memoir of a Sex Life, and from her book and ... Read more

January marks the celebration of the birthdays of both Martin Luther King, Jr. and William Stafford.  In tribute to them, tonight’s Talking Earth brings two outstanding Portland poets together: Emmett Wheatfall and Paulann Petersen, Oregon’s Poet Laureate. Emmett Wheatfall ... Read more

Poets Judith Barrington and Janice Gould  read their poems and talk with host Barbara LaMorticella about their journey into their authentic lives and voices on Monday night December 19 from 10-11 PM. Judith is a poet, memoirist and teacher who was born in Brighton England a... Read more

Poets Carlos Reyes and Henry Hughes read and speak with host Barbara LaMorticella on Talking Earth Monday Night November 21, from 10-11 PM. Reyes reads from his new book, The Book of Shadows, New & Selected poems; and Hughes shares his own poetry and poetry from the new a... Read more

Marc Beaudin is the poetry editor of the online journal CounterPunch and the co-owner of Elk River Books in Livingston, Montana. His latest book is The Moon Cracks Open: A Field Guide to the Birds and Other Poems. He also edited an anti-war anthology, Jihad bil Qalam: To St... Read more

Two poets with quirky, lively and independent voices on Talking Earth on KBOO Monday, September 19 from 10 to 11 PM: M.F. McAuliffe and Christine Homitsu-White. M. F. McAuliffe is a writer, editor, and photographer who made her US publishing debut in Damon Knight's Clarion ... Read more

Steve Williams and Constance Hall read their poems and talk about and share poetry from their “Figures of Speech” reading series at In Other Word Books. Barbara LaMorticella hosts. About himself, Steve writes: Steve Williams works and lives in Portland, Oregon with a lo... Read more