Poet Ray'd Yo: Joshua Beckman: Apr 23, 2026

This month’s edition of Poet Ray’d Yo features readings by, and conversation with, Joshua Beckman. Beckman, who splits his time between Seattle and the Hudson Valley, is a poet, translator, and editor...

Poet Ray'd Yo: Mark Nowak: Mar 26, 2026

This month’s guest, Mark Nowak, is a poet, editor, and literary organizer. For many years edited the journal XCP: Cross-Cultural Poetics, and he is founding director of Worker Writers School. His fort...

Poet Ray'd Yo: Drew Gardner: Feb 26, 2026

This month’s guest on Poet Ray’d Yo is poet-musician Drew Gardner. Motion Detector: Early Poems 1996-2000 is most recent amongst his books. In 2023, Drew edited the anthology Ingenious Pleasures: An A...

Poet Ray'd Yo: Kamau Brathwaite II: Jan 22, 2026

This month's edition returns to the work of Barbadian author Kamau Brathwaite, to whom the program also paid tribute in February 2020. The show broadcasts Brathwaite's 1988 reading at Harvard Universi...

Poet Ray'd Yo: Robert Kelly / Charlotte Mandell: Dec 25, 2025

Robert Kelly and Charlotte Mandell are the guests on this month's program. Among other topics, Kelly discusses his perspective on the experience and hylonoetic, hylozoic, and hylophrastic poetics of l...

Poet Ray'd Yo: Evelyn Reilly: Nov 27, 2025

Evelyn Reilly, this month's guest on the program, is a poet, scholar, and environmentalist who has recently relocated from New York City to the Hudson Valley. Her books include Styrofoam, Apocalypso,...

Poet Ray'd Yo: Latest Hits: Oct 23, 2025

This month's edition of the program features recording made, and works experienced, during the past four months, including documentation of several performances at the Verbatim Text Sound Expo in Mapl...

Poet Ray'd Yo: 20250925: Sep 25, 2025

This month’s edition of Poet Ray’d Yo draws from recordings included in the recently launched We Magazine Digital Archive page at PennSound. These recordings were orchestrated by host Chris Funkhouser...

Poet Ray'd Yo: Stephen Cope reads Cole Heinowitz: Aug 28, 2025

This month's guest on Poet Ray'd Yo is poet and professor Stephen Cope, Cole Heinowitz's partner during the last months of her life. As tribute, testament, dirge, and an act of mourning, Cope brings t...

Poet Ray'd Yo: Revision: Fred Moten (with Brandon López): Jul 24, 2025

This month's edition of Poet Ray'd Yo again shines light on the work of Fred Moten, particularly his recent LP with bassist Brandon López, Revision. Moten's work is among the pillars of the continuati...

Poet Ray'd Yo: Cole Heinowitz Tribute: Jun 26, 2025

This month's Ripples Make Waves Pledge Drive edition of the show pays tribute to Cole Heinowitz, a Bard professor who was a gifted and multi-faceted artist and scholar. Cole was a dear friend of the p...

Poet Ray'd Yo: Pierre Joris Tribute: May 22, 2025

This month’s program is dedicated to the work of Luxembourgian-American poet Pierre Joris, who passed away in February of this year. Examples of a range of his efforts, including his work as an MC, as...

Poet Ray'd Yo: Sparrow: Apr 24, 2025

This month’s program features local poet-activist-journalist-musician Sparrow. Sparrow has published numerous books, including The Princeton Diary, How to Survive the Coming Collapse of Civilization (...

Poet Ray'd Yo: Variable Matrix: Quasha, Stein &c: Mar 27, 2025

This month’s edition of Poet Ray’d Yo documents recent readings by George Quasha and Chuck Stein at the Variable Matrix exhibition in Tivoli. The program also features a litany of definitions for Poet...

Poet Ray'd Yo: Alan Gilbert: Feb 27, 2025

This month's guest on Poet Ray'd Yo is Alan Gilbert. Alan is a poet and art critic who has just published the latest installment of an epic poem titled, The Everyday Life of Design. Alan teaches at Co...

Poet Ray'd Yo: Alexis Bhagat: Jan 23, 2025

Alexis Bhagat, writer and co-founder of the Albany-based poetry collective St. Rocco’s Workshop, is guest on the program this month. Bhagat, who also experiments with aural techniques in his practice,...

Poet Ray'd Yo: Will Alexander II: Dec 26, 2024

Will Alexander is a Los Angeles based writer, visual artist, and musician whose works are influenced by surrealism, Negritude and many other forces. His volume Refractive Africa was a finalist for the...

Poet Ray'd Yo: Bruce Andrews: Nov 28, 2024

Bruce Andrews is a transmedia artist who has authored of numerous volumes of poetry, including I Don’t Have Any Paper So Shut Up (Or, Social Romanticism). He is known for his association with Language...

Poet Ray'd Yo: Poet Ray’d Yo Humanist Election Edition: Oct 24, 2024

This month Poet Ray’d Yo steps out of its regular modes and gathers poetry from the Internet relating to the upcoming election. Artists featured on the show include Devorah Major, Dan Hanrahan, Amanda...

Poet Ray'd Yo: Abigail Child: Sep 26, 2024

This month's guest is Abigail Child, who is a filmmaker and poet who has been active in experimental writing and media since the 1970s. Based in New York City and Staatsburg, she has published five bo...

Poet Ray'd Yo: Abigail Child: Sep 26, 2024

This month's guest is Abigail Child, who is a filmmaker and poet who has been active in experimental writing and media since the 1970s. Based in New York City and Staatsburg, she has published five bo...

Poet Ray'd Yo: Abigail Child: Sep 26, 2024

This month's guest is Abigail Child, who is a filmmaker and poet who has been active in experimental writing and media since the 1970s. Based in New York City and Staatsburg, she has published five bo...

Anne Waldman II: Aug 22, 2024

Unearthing a recording of a 1996 performance she gave in Albany, this month’s program celebrates the work of Anne Waldman. Waldman, a pioneering force behind the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church in...

Poet Ray'd Yo: Anne Waldman II: Aug 22, 2024

Unearthing a 1996 performance she gave in Albany, this month’s program celebrates the work of Anne Waldman. Waldman, a pioneering force behind the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church in the Bowery, an...

Poet Ray'd Yo: Funk’s SoundBox - version archival (re-air): Jul 27, 2024

This month, host Chris Funkhouser mixes a show using an interactive online archive he has developed, Funk’s SoundBox: version archival (http://www.wepress.org/soundbox/archive.html). Produced liv...

Poet Ray'd Yo: Funk’s SoundBox - version archival: Jul 25, 2024

This month, host Chris Funkhouser mixes a show using an interactive online archive he has developed, Funk’s SoundBox: version archival (http://www.wepress.org/soundbox/archive.html). Produced liv...

Poet Ray'd Yo: Funk’s SoundBox - version archival: Jul 25, 2024

This month, host Chris Funkhouser mixes a show using an interactive online archive he has developed, Funk’s SoundBox: version archival. Produced live, the session features recordings of Andy Clausen,...

Poet Ray'd Yo: Recent Readings with Poets in the Region - Michael Boughn, Cole Heinowitz, Pierre Joris, Vincent Katz, and George Quasha: Jun 27, 2024

This month’s "Poet Ray’d Yo" presents documentation of recent readings in the area, recorded by host Chris Funkhouser. Poets featured on the program are Michael Boughn, Cole Heinowitz, Pierre Joris, V...

Poet Rayd Yo: Recent Readings with Poets in the Region - Michael Boughn, Cole Heinowitz, Pierre Joris, Vincent Katz, and George Quasha: Jun 27, 2024

This month’s "Poet Ray’d Yo" presents documentation of recent readings in the area, recorded by host Chris Funkhouser. Poets featured on the program are Michael Boughn, Cole Heinowitz, Pierre Joris, V...

Poet Ray'd Yo: Charles Stein: May 23, 2024

Charles Stein, a longtime resident of Barrytown, performs in a live broadcast edition of "Poet Ray’d Yo." Stein, a poet, scholar, and translator renowned for his innovative and deeply intellectual app...

Poet Ray'd Yo: Ted Pearson: Apr 15, 2024

This month’s edition of "Poet Ray’d Yo" features Ted Pearson, who is author of nearly thirty books of poetry, beginning with The Grit in 1976. His most recent volume Overtures, was published in 2023....

Poet Ray'd Yo: Jon Curley: Mar 18, 2024

This month's "Poet Ray'd Yo" features Jon Curley, who is is author of five books of poetry, and for more than two decades has taught literary and cultural studies courses in Humanities and Social Scie...

Poet Ray'd Yo: Miriam Atkin: Feb 20, 2024

The "Lucky 13" pledge drive edition of Poet Ray’d Yo hosts brand new WGXC programmer, local writer and performer, Miriam Atkin. Miriam, who curates the Verbatim Text Sound Expo, discusses her work and...

Poet Ray'd Yo: Brian McCorkle, Amy Griffin, Alexis Bhagat, Kite: Feb 05, 2024

This month’s edition of Poet Ray’d Yo broadcasts documentation of Generative Texts, an event held at Kiddie Pool in Albany that featured performances by Brian McCorkle, Amy Griffin, Chris Funkhouser,...

Poet Ray'd Yo: Continuities - Charles Bernstein & Richard Loranger: Feb 05, 2024

Continuities: Charles Bernstein & Richard Loranger. This edition of Poet Ray’d Yo features October 2023 recordings of poets previously featured on the program. Richard Loranger returned to the Hudson...

Poet Ray'd Yo: Young/Rodefer/Friedlander in Great Barrington: Jan 23, 2024

This month’s Poet Ray’d Yo features documentation of a January 2024 reading in Great Barrington by poet/publisher/gallerist Geoffrey Young. Also included on the program are archival recordings of Step...

Poet Ray'd Yo: Brian Dewan: Sep 28, 2023

Brian Dewan is an interdisciplinary artist who works in visual art, music, poetry, and performance. The broadcast begins with song and then features poetry accompanied by Melody Gen, a homemade instru...

Poet Ray'd Yo: Charles O. Hartman, Debora Kuan: Jun 22, 2023

This broadcast spotlights readings by Charles O. Hartman and Debora Kuan on June 10, 2023, at the Noah Webster House in West Hartford, CT. Kuan is the author of three poetry books, including the forth...

Poet Ray'd Yo: Eleni Sikelianos, Gillian Conoley, Dara Barrois/Dixon: May 25, 2023

This month’s edition of Poet Ray’d Yo broadcasts documentation of the entirety of a reading by poets Eleni Sikelianos, Gillian Conoley, and Dara Barrois/Dixon, which transpired on May 20 at Familiar T...

Poet Ray'd Yo: Alice Notley, Ada Limón, Simone White, Jackson Mac Low, David Shapiro, Mónica de la Torre, Leslie Scalapino, Nathaniel Mackey: Apr 27, 2023

Poet Ray’d Yo celebrates National Poetry Month 2023 by offering a selection of recordings from the archive. Writers whose works are featured on this edition of the program are Alice Notley, Ada Limón,...

Poet Ray'd Yo: David Cope: Mar 23, 2023

David Cope edits Big Scream magazine, and is author of several books of poetry, including Fragments from the Stars and Coming Home. In 2022, Giant Steps Press published The Correspondence of David Cop...

Poet Ray'd Yo: Laynie Browne: Feb 23, 2023

Blending words and sounds, bringing to the airwaves live performances as well as field and studio recordings by writers the host has crossed paths with over the course of a quarter century. This month...

Poet Ray’d Yo: Bernadette Mayer: Jan 26, 2023

This month’s edition of "Poet Ray’d Yo" pays tribute to Bernadette Mayer, an exquisite poet and former guest on "Poet Ray’d Yo," who passed away in November. Included in this program is her 2015 readi...

Poet Ray'd Yo: Richard Kostelanetz: Nov 24, 2022

This broadcast features a conversation with poet, writer, avant-garde artist, critic, and curator, Richard Kostelanetz. Over the past half-century, Kostelanetz has produced language-based works using...

Poet Ray'd Yo: Chuck Stein, Amina Baraka, Iva Bittová: Oct 27, 2022

This broadcast delves into the archive and comes up with various works recorded between 2014 and 2019. Featured are words by Chuck Stein, Mei Mei Berssenbrugge, Nathaniel Mackey, Amina Baraka, George...

Poet Ray'd Yo: 2022 Subterranean Poetry Festival: Sep 22, 2022

This broadcast presents highlights from the recent Subterranean Poetry Festival, which happens annually at the Widow Jane Mine in Rosendale, NY. Readers at the event this year, featured on the program...

Poet Ray'd Yo: Ben Friedlander: Aug 25, 2022

Blending words and sounds, bringing to the airwaves live performances as well as field and studio recordings by writers the host has crossed paths with over the course of a quarter century. Poet, scho...

Poet Ray'd Yo: Selected Cuts: May 26, 2022

In this edition of Poet Ray’d Yo, selected cuts from two poetry records, Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me (Rounder Records, 1998) and Fred Moten/Brandon López/Gerald Cleaver (Reading Group,...

Poet Ray'd Yo: Jerome Rothenberg: Apr 28, 2022

Blending words and sounds, bringing to the airwaves live performances as well as field and studio recordings by writers the host has crossed paths with over the course of a quarter-century. In this ed...

Poet Ray’d Yo: Cole Heinowitz: Mar 24, 2022

Blending words and sounds, bringing to the airwaves live performances as well as field and studio recordings by writers the host has crossed paths with over the course of a quarter-century. This b...