The Staple

Essayist Martha Grover reads from her latest collection, “The End of My

Career,” an Oregon Book Award finalist for 2017.

The music in this episode is by In Love with a Ghost, Hiroto Kudo,

and Lucy in Disguise.

Photo by Martha Grover.

Essayist Martha Grover reads from her latest collection, “The End of My

Career,” an Oregon Book Award finalist for 2017.

The music in this episode is by In Love with a Ghost, Hiroto Kudo,

and Lucy in Disguise.

Photo by Martha Grover.

Voices of people taking positive action followed by an interview with

activist Kathryn Stevens.

Below are links to some of the organizations mentioned in the episode: 

Be The Millers

Emergency Houseless Resource Drive

Portland's Resistance

Boots on the Ground

Backpacks...

Shanti Webley, a 2nd degree black belt in Mo Duk Pai Kung Fu, explains how

his martial art helps people uncrumple fear and move through it. Marcus

Atkins, a 3rd degree black belt in Kenpo Kung Fu, shares the challenges and

rewards of a life dedicated to the study of mart...

Skateboarder and artist Chris Johanson in conversation with Skateboarder

and poet Jeff Alessandrelli. 

Music generously provided by Sunfoot.

On a walk through Forest Park, author Alexis Smith (Glaciers, Marrow Island)

talks of loathing summer, the joy of running, and her family's history of

agate picking.

Music generously provided by Laura Gibson.

Photographer Mercy McNab goes beyond her comfort zone to find herself.  

Music provided generously by Toe. 

Photo "Pink Roses" by Mercy McNab.

Roy Smallwood was mourning the sudden loss of his parents, looking for

comfort in heroin and falling deeper in despair. Then he stumbled

upon something that saved his life. And everyone else calls it trivial.

Piano music of Samual Barber carries us into the confined world of short

story writer Jacob Aiello who is cooking the same lunch for himself again and

again until magically we are transported to Paris and toward the source of

his particular disorder. 

Music provided gen...

Featuring the quintessential outsider: a Native American living in his Native

America. We take a walk through the Whitaker Ponds Nature Park with poet

Trevino Brings Plenty who talks about life as a native, life as an American,

and how he explores those dualities in vers...