Pacific Underground

This week join Pacific Underground producers Jake and Matt for a

conversation with Janine Joseph!

We were really excited to connect with Janine and speak with her about her

brilliant & award winning first poetry collection, Driving Without a

License. Our chat wends between...

Join the Pacific Underground Collective (Tabitha, Jake, Sara, and Matt) for a

roundtable on Asian Pacific Americans in Pop Culture!

This week we have an episode from the Pacific Underground Archives!

Lilian Dirrebes Ongelungel speaks with Pacific Underground producers Jake

and Kat about being the only Pacific Islander in the room, Moana, tattoes,

and storytelling / oral histories.

Last week, we featured a special, shorter version of an interview with Duncan

Ryuken Williams, author of American Sutra: A Story of Faith and Freedom in

the Second World War in anticipation of his reading at Powell's. This week,

we bring you the full version of the inter...

What does it mean to make sense of the most horrific use of weapons of mass

destruction on a civilian population, and how that effects us as human

beings, much less if that specifically impacts our family tree? 

For Yukiyo Kawano, this means letting ancestors interfere w...

Emily Jungmin Yoon is a Korean Canadian poet who wrestles with history.

Producers Jake and Sara join Emily to talk about her debut full-length poetry

collection, A Cruelty Special to Our Species which explores the history of

Korean “comfort women” during World War II. Throu...

We're kicking off the New Year with music! We have had the pleasure of

interviewing truly talented musicians and artists at Pacific Underground and

today, we curated a playlist of songs by API musicians. Not all of them have

been on Pacific Underground and some of the songs...

Interview with Portland artists Lynn Yarne and Roberta May Wong who are both

featured in the current exhibit "Descendent Threads" at the Portland

Chinatown Museum. Also, a vox pop about mental health with audio collected at

this year's EPALF (East Portland Arts and Liter...