Mas Inspires, from Abuja, Nigeria, shares his journey from overcoming a stammer to finding purpose through poetry. Poetry You Won't Hear Anywhere Else: from Martha Cinader, Tony Robles, Karla Brundage. Music You Won't Hear Anywhere Else: A Love's Reflection featuring Faloguni Shah, Teru Nakamura, and a tribute to Sonny Rollins.

Ni Rivera welcomes Chloe Martinez and Lisa Van Orman Hadley, co-editors of “Chaos, Creativity, Completion.” Rare live recording with Bernie Worrell, DJ Logic.

Katherine Scott Crawford talks with Tony Robles about her book, “The Miniaturist’s Assistant.” Crawford, and being a recovering academic. Groove Collective and New Poetry

Dillon Williams, founder of Hybrid Indigenous Stewardship, discusses H.I.S. Services, which combines traditional indigenous knowledge with modern tools and scientific methods. His work focuses on restoring traditional food, fibers, and medicines, addressing fire management, invasive species and climate change. Williams emphasizes the importance of cultural preservation and the need to adapt traditional practices to the current ecosystem. Anna Farporte, EPA Director of the Sherwood Valley Band of Pomo Indians also joins the conversation with Martha Cinader and Hernán Ramiro Rodriguez Sierra

This episode of Listen and Be Heard features conversations with Philadelphia Youth Poet Laureate Malaya Ulan, and writers Jojo Barrett, Jason Parker, and Marlo Scheitler. The episode also includes poetry readings by Maeve Fox, Mikey Cullen, Crystal Cauley, Martha Cinader and Genny Lim. In the second half, a tribute to Miles Davis featuring Wayne Shorter’s “Sanctuary” and an excerpt from a live performance at Harlem Jazz Boxx.

Author of the Murray McBride Trilogy, Joe Siple, joins Tony Robles in the audio garden. We feature poetry by Mary TallMountain and Suzette Clark Bradshaw, a new live recording from Hernan Ramiro Rodriguez Sierra, and also rare live recordings of Jim Pepper with Don Cherry.

Elizabeth Perlman, author of Word Magic: The Power of Writing to Reframe Your Story and Claim Your Intuition is our guest in the audio garden. Hernan shares new music: Freedom, Equity, and Justice for the People Song, and El Brujo. Poetry by Crystal Cauley, an essay by Jocelyn Grover and new poetry streams...

Cipriano Belser is co-founder of Black Lantern Books, housing the Legacy Library, a collection of some 10,000 books curated by organizer, Kwazi Nkrumah. Poetry by Shizue Seigel, Joseph Jason Santiago Lacour. New music with Celia Cruz, Arturo O'Farrill and Fred Wesley and the New JB's.

Kim McMillon talks about Black Heaven, Joel Beverly talks about The Absence of Belief, Widespread Panic plays Slipping Into Darkness, Bowery Jazz Messengers

Tony Robles, talks about his new book: Soup for the Storm, and reads some poetry from the book and about his experiences in Waialua, Hawaii, during and after the recent storm. The conversation also touches on Robles’s move from San Francisco to Hendersonville, North Carolina, and how his poetry reflects the people and places he encounters, the impact of Hurricane Helene on the community, including the evacuation of his mother and the devastation in nearby areas like Chimney Rock.