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Our featured guest is poet, Dorsía Smith Silva, author of In Inheritance of Drowning. We also feature Wendy Loomis of COPUS, celebrating the CD, The Assignment, a tribute to poet Royal Kent. Elizabeth Perlman talks with young writer, Stella Pollock. New music by Jay Rodriguez Sierra featuring legend

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ABOUT THE ASSIGNMENT COPUS - an acronym for Creation Of Peace Under Stars - is an ensemble formed in the late 1990s by poet Royal Kent and composer/pianist Wendy Loomis. Together they created a body of positive spoken word and beautiful music that has inspired people around the world. Royal passed a

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WENDY LOOMIS is an award-winning San Francisco-based composer, pianist, producer, and educator.  She has released 20 CDs to date and performs nationally and internationally with various ensembles in the genres of poetic jazz, new age, and world music.   

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Martha Cinader, Judy Talaugon, Jay Rodriguez Sierra and Tony Robles are joined by award winning photo journalist Ozier Muhammad. The conversation begins with Judy talking about the native history and the names of the tribes who lived and came during the roundup period where she lives in California,

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https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/W-E-B-Du-Bois-The-Fight-for-Equality-and-the-American-Century-1919-1963/David-Levering-Lewis/9781668123539

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The second volume of the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography that The Washington Post hailed as "an engrossing masterpiece."In this final magisterial volume, fifteen years in the research and writing, David Levering Lewis stunningly recreates the second half of W.E.B. Du Bois's charged and brilliant ca

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Ozier Muhammad, Photo Journalist

Beyond Borders Episode 3, June 14, 2025 Ozier MuhammadPhoto Journalist OZIER MUHAMMAD FORMER STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER THE NEW YORK TIMES  Ozier Muhammad graduated with a B.A., in photography from Columbia College in Chicago. He has been a photojournalist for more than 3 decades. His first job was as a staff photographer at Ebony Magazine. Ozier joined The Charlotte Observer in 1978, went to Newsday…

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Listen & Be Heard Remix Volume One: a timely blend of our guests reading from their work, and other highlights from previous episodes.

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Our featured guest is pianist, poet and essayist Matthew Shipp, talking about his book of essays and prose poems, Black Mystery School Pianists. We also feature pianist Richard Clements talking about the legacy of the legendary pianist and teacher Barry Harris. Our new music this week is Jay's take

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Dorsía Smith Silva is the author of In Inheritance of Drowning (CavanKerry, 2024), which was a finalist for the Whirling Prize and reviewed by Publishers Weekly. She is a multi-nominated Pushcart Prize nominee, Best of the Net finalist, Best New Poets nominee, Cave Canem Poetry Prize Semifinalist, P

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With a unique, instantly recognizable style, pianist Matthew Shipp has been active on the international jazz scene since late 1980s. His boundary-less musical approach crisscrosses free jazz, elliptical post-bop, and modern classical music. He served as pianist in the David S. Ware Quartet during th

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In today's episode Martha Cinader, Judy Talaugon and Jay Rodriguez Sierra talk about a 100th Birthday event for Malcolm X that Jay participated in, in Harlem, NYC. Jay talks about how he felt playing in the street, and the poets who asked him to play with them after his gig was over. He explains cip

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Barbara Tran - Precedented Parroting. Spoken Word, Cipher for Malcolm X's 100th Birthday, Jay's take on Blowin' in the Wind, Martha's take on the wind...

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With the fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975, the U.S. war in Vietnam ended, but the refugee crisis was only beginning. Among the millions of people who fled Vietnam by boat were Vinh Nguyen, along with his mother and siblings, and his father, who left separately and then mysteriously vanished.

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Freda Epum, author of The Gloomy Girl Variety Show. Spoken word from Albert DiLorenzo, Judy Talaugon reading Mary TallMountain, and note Martha Cinader. Jennifer Owen, children’s author, and new music from Jay Rodriguez Sierra.

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Travel with Prince Charming as he wakes to the fact that charm isn't the most important asset a person can have.

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Freda Ndidi Epum (Free-duh Nn-dee-dee Ay-poom) is a Nigerian-American writer, artist, and consultant from Tucson, AZ. Her work has been published in The Rumpus, Electric Literature, Vol 1. Brooklyn, Entropy, Bending Genres, Cosmonauts Avenue, Heavy Feather Review, Nat.Brut, Third Coast, Atticus Revi