Words on a Wire

Host Tim Z. Hernandez welcomes Carribean Fragoza, writer, journalist and artist from South El Monte,CA.  Her arts/culture reviews and essays have been published in online national and international magazines such as the Aperture, Los Angeles Review of Books

Host Daniel Chacon welcomes Monique Quintana back to the studio for an in depth interview to discuss her new noel, Cenote City. Her book reviews, interviews, and personal essays appear at Luna Luna Magazine,  where she is a contributing editor. Her short works have been nominated for Best of the Net, Best Microfiction, and the Pushcart Prize.

For today's episode, host, Tim Z. Hernandez, interviews California-based poet Devoya Mayo.  Mayo is a poet, artist, organizer, DJ, and host of her own podcast "Sucka Free Sundays." Her personal mission is to combine history, culture, and art to create opportunities that are educational, promote wellness, and foster meaningful inclusion of marginalized communities.

In this episode of Words on a Wire, host Daniel Chacon interviews David Campos and Maceo Montoya on American Quasar, a collaboration that mixes poetry and image

In this episode host, Daniel Chacon interviews Will Rose, CMO for an Artificial Intelligence company based in NYC.

In this episode, Daniel and Vissiting Assistan Professor, Kadiri J. Vaquer Fernandez discuss different topics such as her latest book 'Ritos de Pasaje,' Immigration, exploring the imagination, and the longing to return home, to a place and time when we felt more secure.

Hello everyone, just a reminder to tune in to KTEP 88.5 FM at 12 p.m. MST to listen to the conversation between host Tim Z. Hernandez and the San Francisco-based band, Los Delicados.

Hello everyone! Just a reminder to tune in to KTEP 88.5 FM at 12 p.m. MST for a special episode of Words on a Wire where host Daniel Chacon, interviews US Poet Laureate, Joy Harjo.

Harjo is an internationally renowned performer and writer of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. She is serving her second term as the 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States.

She is the author of nine books of poetry, including the highly acclaimed An American Sunrise, several plays and children's books, and two memoirs, Crazy Brave and Poet Warrior: A Call for Love and Justice, her many honors include the Ruth Lily Prize for Lifetime Achievement from the Poetry Foundation, the Academy of American Poets Wallace Stevens Award, two NEA fellowships, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.

In this episode of Words on a Wire Tim Z. Hernandez interviews activist and software developer Joshua Rubin.

Rubin, is a software developer from Brooklyn, New York,

and the founder of Witness at the Border. He was a witness at the Tornillo, Texas influx detention facility for migrant children, and at a similar shelter in Homestead, Florida. These facilities held over 3,000 children at their peak; both no longer do. Rubin led the Witness project on the ground in Brownsville/Matamoros in early 2020, and leads the Biden-era child detention Witness project.

In this episode of Words on a Wire host Daniel Chacon interviews first year MFA students Iliana Pichardo and Claudia Flores on the release of the new book "Toda esta distancia | All this distance."

The book is a collection of stories about the pandemic, an archive of intimate experiences, by students of the master's degree in creative writing at the University of Texas at El Paso.