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Host Producer, Nina Serrano premiers Salvadoran poet Jorge Argueta’s new poem written in response to his visit to El Salvador at the time of the elections in March 2009. In this major work read by Argueta in English using his own translation, the poet discusses the smallest nation in the Americas' historic struggles for democracy since the formation of the republic and the hopes of the people for change.

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On Open Book, we will hear heartfelt stories of coming out, of same-sex marriage and of other experiences from the LGBTQQI community.  Earlier this month, StoryCorps came to KPFA to do some recordings for this month's Gay Pride celebrations.  StoryCorps is an oral history project based on the idea that the stories of everyday people are the most important and interesting of all.  So tune in to hear some of the stories we were able to record here on KPFA.

If you would like more information about the StoryCorps project, check them out at www.storycorps.net.  Also, the roving StoryCorps booth is in San Francisco till October 11th at the Contemporary Jewish Museum.  To schedule an interview, call them at (800) 850-4406 or check out their website.

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Poet to Poet: Poet/host Nina Serrano converses with poet, Elías Hruska, author of This Side and Other Things about his most recent collection of poems, Blues for a Summer Day. He reads his poems on the theme of love and loss, cutting across time, place, ethnicity, and generations. Within this framework Elías combines time and place to evoke memories and relationships, past and present: from Sicily where his wife was born, to Cuba, the homeland of his mother, to San Francisco, birthplace of the poet.

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Sharon Ott, director of the Berkeley Rep production of /You, Nero/, now playing through June 28th, talks about the play and about her work as a director with host Richard Wolinsky.

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