Talking Earth

Lex Runciman has published seven collections, most recently Unlooked For (2022) from Salmon Poetry in Ireland. A new collection, Light in the Evergreens, is forthcoming from Cornerstone Press in 2026. A Portlander by birth, he’s lived in Sellwood for the last ten years. Ka... Read more

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This program, broadcast on Martin Luther King Day, begins with host dan raphael reading very appropriate poems from Portland poet, writer and jazzman Harold Johnson, who died last November. Amy Baskin is the author of two poetry collections, Night Hag, and the recently rel... Read more

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Laura Feldman was born and raised in North Portland. She serves on the Willamette River Advisory Board, and the Oregon Hanford Cleanup Board. Her work includes the chapbook: hearing Hanford (nine muses press, 2011), and more recently her memory essay, Trip to Richland, whic... Read more

James Grabill is the author of 18 books, including Eye of the Spiral and the 2 volume sea level nerve. He won an Oregon book award, and was a finalist two other times. He’s reading tonight from his just out book Stray Dogs and Irreversible Cars. He’s a former professor of L... Read more

Scot Siegel is a city planner and poet whose most recent book of poems, Tender Currencies, won the 2024 Sally Albiso Poetry Award. Previous collections include The Constellation of Extinct Stars and Other Poems (2016) and Thousands Flee California Wildflowers (2012) from Sa... Read more

This month's Talking Earth, hosted by dan raphael, features Portland writer's Leah Stenson, C E Putnam and Marilyn Stablein, all of whom lived in Asia and now live in Portland. dan will read a couple poems from Rone Shavers and himself.  Leah Stenson is a world traveler, w... Read more

Tonight's edition of Talking Earth will feature the poems of Dante Graham-Preston, Drew Slum and Marcus Lattimore. Host Patrick Bocarde has known Drew for decades since the open mic glory years of the early aughts. Patrick caught up with Drew for a little bit in late August... Read more

Tonight's edition of Talking Earth, hosted by dan raphael, features local writers Kelly Lenox, Daneen Bergland and Michael Keefe.  Kelly Lenox writes poetry and prose from her home in Milwaukie, Oregon. Her first poetry collection is The Brightest Rock (2017). Kelly also wri... Read more