Poets West

Moon over Village—RaynRobertsOtsukimi Moon Viewing—Rosemary O’HaraHyukatake—Dan WilliamsVenus in Transit—Dan WilliamsHappy Planet—Dan WilliamsEinstein Was Wrong—David Thornbrugh<

The poems of Mahmoud Darwish, read in Arabic and English, featuring Eric Mast with Hanna Eady on Oud. 

- Passport
- We Travel
- Who Am I
- My Mother
- Mawwaal (put to music & sung by Reem Kelani.)

Poets West - Not Your Grandma's Poems

4:30 PM,  Wednesday August 19

Join KSER and Poets West host  J. Glenn Evans as he focuses on famed Northwest poet Madeline DeFrees.   Born November 18, 1919 in Ontario, Oregon, Ms DeFrees spent the years 1936 to 1973 as Sister Mary Gilbert in the Sisters of The Holy Names of Jesus and Mary. She earned her English BA from Marylhurst, and her Journalism MA from the University of Oregon, has taught extensively around the United States, and is currently lecturing at the Whidbey Writers Workshop.  Don't miss this experience !

Poets West is broadcast on KSER 90.7 every Wednesday at 4:30 pm.  You have heard nothing like it  before.

POETS WEST - Poems about our fathers hosted by J. Glenn Evans and featuring Donn Deedon, Brandon Cesmat, Michael Magee, Len Tews, Tomás Gayton, Frederick Bridger, Rajah Gharbi, Meg Savlov, J. Glenn Evans.

PoetsWest is, as its name implies, a program of poetry. PoetsWest is local poets, reading their contemporary works, blended with music and an occasional interview. It’s a concise, breezy, thought-provoking presentation of one of the oldest spoken word traditions.sexcam

This afternoon on Poets West we'll hear more voices of women poets from the Philippines in the second part of two special programs.
This week:

• How to Let the Dead Go—Toni Bajado
• Phone Call from War Zone—Toni Bajado
• Karaoke Diva—Angela Martinez Dy
• Philippine Experience—Angela Martinez Dy
• Mom’s Stuff—Nancy Calos-Nakano
• Women Cradled—Melissa Nolledo
• Migration—Melissa Nolledo
• Take Flight— Melissa Nolledo
• The Gift—Melissa Nolledo

Music from Voices of the Village

POETS WEST - Public reading of “Let Me Stand Alone: Journals of Rachel Corrie” by her family and friends.

PoetsWest is local poets, reading their contemporary works, blended with music and an occasional interview. It’s a concise, breezy, thought-provoking presentation of one of the oldest spoken word traditions.

Poets West - The Journals of Rachel Corrie: Let Me Stand Alone Part 1

Reading and commentary by Craig and Cindy Corrie,
Sarah Corrie Simpson, Jen Marlowe, Patti Miles Beuzekom

Music: “I’d Rather Be Dancing” by Jim Page from
the album Far from Home, produced by Billy Bragg. 

POETS WEST - Rachel Corrie remembered in poems and commentary. Rachel Corrie was killed by an Israeli bulldozer in Rafah in the Gaza Strip on March 16, 2003 on the eve of the US attack on Iraq.

PoetsWest is a program of local poets, reading their contemporary works, blended with music and an occasional interview. It’s a concise, breezy, thought-provoking presentation of one of the oldest spoken word traditions.

This week on Poets West, poems and prose on diverse subjects by members of African American Writers Alliance, based in Seattle.

• Introduction: Georgia McDade
• Harriet’s Dream: Angie Brown LaBaw
• Freedom’s Run: Angie Brown LaBaw
• The Movement: Monique Franklin
• Inadequacy of Apology: Georgia McDade
• We Know How to Struggle: Steven Batts
• Sadah Suma Love: Frenchy Condé-Lamont
• Hair: Brenda Wright
• Conversation with God: Santiago

Music credits: 10th Anniversary CD from Oxford American:

• Bed of Roses by Elysian Field
• Sunshine of Your Love by Ella Fitzgerald
• Everybody’s Gotta Live by Arthur Lee

PoetsWest - This Week: Spiritual poems by newspaper publisher Mike Dillon.

PoetsWest is local poets, reading their contemporary works, blended with music and an occasional interview. It’s a concise, breezy, thought-provoking presentation of one of the oldest spoken word traditions. 

Poets of the Pacific Northwest read unique "Poems of Love" just for Valentine's Day.

Poets West

THIS WEEK: “Poems from Palestine” Poems by Palestinian poets and read in both English and Arabic.

Poets West is, as its name implies, a program of poetry, but it is NOT a boring reading of the same stuff we had to memorize in school. PoetsWest is local poets, reading their contemporary works, blended with music and an occasional interview. It’s a concise, breezy, thought-provoking presentation of one of the oldest spoken word traditions.