20261022: Oct 22, 2026: 7pm - 8pm

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.

20260924: Sep 24, 2026: 7pm - 8pm

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.

20260827: Aug 27, 2026: 7pm - 8pm

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.

20260723: Jul 23, 2026: 7pm - 8pm

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.

20260625: Jun 25, 2026: 7pm - 8pm

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.

20260528: May 28, 2026: 7pm - 8pm

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.

Joshua Beckman: Apr 23, 2026: 7pm - 8pm

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...

Mark Nowak: Mar 26, 2026: 7pm - 8pm

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...

Drew Gardner: Feb 26, 2026: 7pm - 8pm

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...

Kamau Brathwaite II: Jan 22, 2026: 7pm - 8pm

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...

Chuck Stein, Amina Baraka, Iva Bittová (re-air of October 27, 2022): Jan 09, 2026: 7pm - 8pm

This broadcast, originally aired on October 27, 2022, delves into the archive and comes up with various works recorded between 2014 and 2019. Featured are words by Chuck Stein, Mei Mei Berssenbrugge,...

Robert Kelly / Charlotte Mandell: Dec 25, 2025: 7pm - 8pm

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...

Evelyn Reilly: Nov 27, 2025: 7pm - 8pm

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,...

Latest Hits: Oct 23, 2025: 7pm - 8pm

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...

Selections from We Magazine's Digital Archive: Sep 25, 2025: 7pm - 8pm

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...

Stephen Cope reading Cole Heinowitz: Aug 28, 2025: 7pm - 8pm

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...

Revision: Fred Moten (with Brandon López): Jul 30, 2025: 10am - 11am

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...

Revision: Fred Moten (with Brandon López): Jul 24, 2025: 7pm - 8pm

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...

Cole Heinowitz Tribute: Jun 26, 2025: 7pm - 8pm

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...

Pierre Joris Tribute: May 22, 2025: 7pm - 8pm

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...

Sparrow: Apr 24, 2025: 7pm - 8pm

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 (...

Variable Matrix: Quasha, Stein &c: Mar 27, 2025: 7pm - 8pm

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 (Tivoli Artists Gallery). The program also features a litan...

Alan Gilbert: Feb 27, 2025: 7pm - 8pm

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...

Alexis Bhagat: Jan 23, 2025: 7pm - 8pm

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,...

Will Alexander II: Dec 26, 2024: 7pm - 8pm

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...

Bruce Andrews (re-air): Nov 30, 2024: 9am - 10am

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...

Bruce Andrews: Nov 28, 2024: 7pm - 8pm

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...

Humanist Election Edition (re-air of Thursday, October 24): Nov 04, 2024: 3pm - 4pm

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 Humanist Election Edition: Oct 24, 2024: 7pm - 8pm

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...

Abigail Child: Sep 26, 2024: 7pm - 8pm

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: 7pm - 8pm

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...

Funk’s SoundBox - version archival (re-air): Jul 27, 2024: 9am - 10am

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...

Funk’s SoundBox - version archival: Jul 25, 2024: 7pm - 8pm

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...

Recent Readings with Poets in the Region - Michael Boughn, Cole Heinowitz, Pierre Joris, Vincent Katz, and George Quasha: Jun 27, 2024: 7pm - 8pm

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...

Charles Stein: May 23, 2024: 7pm - 8pm

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...

Ted Pearson: Apr 25, 2024: 7pm - 8pm

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....

Jon Curley: Mar 28, 2024: 7pm - 8pm

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...

Miriam Atkin: Feb 22, 2024: 7pm - 8pm

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...

Young/Rodefer/Friedlander in Great Barrington: Jan 25, 2024: 7pm - 8pm

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...

Brian McCorkle, Amy Griffin, Alexis Bhagat, Kite: Dec 28, 2023: 7pm - 8pm

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,...

Joel Newberger: Nov 23, 2023: 7pm - 8pm

This month’s guest is writer and publisher Joel Newberger. Newberger is the author of several books of poetry, including the recent volume, "In Titan’s Goblet." He publishes the pamphlet series "The S...

Charles Bernstein, Richard Loranger: Oct 26, 2023: 7pm - 8pm

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...

Brian Dewan: Sep 28, 2023: 7pm - 8pm

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...

Jeffrey Lependorf: Aug 24, 2023: 7pm - 8pm

Jeffrey Lependorf is a musician, visual artist, and nonprofit arts professional. He is currently Executive Director of the Flow Chart Foundation in Hudson, which is dedicated to exploring poetry and t...

Flow Chart Foundation Gathering 2023: Jul 27, 2023: 7pm - 8pm

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 broad...

Charles O. Hartman, Debora Kuan: Jun 22, 2023: 7pm - 8pm

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...

Eleni Sikelianos, Gillian Conoley, Dara Barrois/Dixon: Jun 03, 2023: 11am - 11:59 am

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 19 at Familiar T...

Eleni Sikelianos, Gillian Conoley, Dara Barrois/Dixon: Jun 02, 2023: 3pm - 4pm

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 19 at Familiar T...

Eleni Sikelianos, Gillian Conoley, Dara Barrois/Dixon: May 30, 2023: 7pm - 8pm

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 19 at Familiar T...

Eleni Sikelianos, Gillian Conoley, Dara Barrois/Dixon: May 25, 2023: 7pm - 8pm

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 19 at Familiar T...