Poet Ray'd Yo: Sharon Mesmer: May 27, 2021

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. Sharon...

Poet Ray'd Yo: Charles Bernstein: Apr 22, 2021

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. Charles B...

Poet Ray'd Yo: Anne Waldman: Mar 25, 2021

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. Anne Wald...

Poet Ray'd Yo: Allen Ginsberg: Feb 25, 2021

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 mont...

Poet Ray'd Yo: Kamau Brathwaite: Feb 22, 2020

This broadcast focuses on the work of Barbadian poet and scholar Kamau Brathwaite, who passed away on February 4, 2020, at the age of 89. Author of more than 40 books, Brathwaite was a co-founder of t...

Poet Ray'd Yo: Cat Tyc: Jan 25, 2020

In this broadcast, a conversation with Cat Tyc, a Hudson-based writer and video artist. Tyc is the Program Coordinator at The Home School in Hudson and has recently published writing in the Poetry Pro...

Poet Ray'd Yo: John Cayley: Jun 24, 2021

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: Francisco X. Alarcón: Jan 27, 2021

This broadcast focuses on the work of Francisco X. Alarcón, an influential Chicano poet and educator. Recordings co-produced by host Chris Funkhouser in the early 1990s are featured, including collabo...

Poet Ray'd Yo: H.D. Moe: Dec 23, 2020

Bay Area-based H.D. Moe (1937-2013) authored dozens of boundary-breaking books in his lifetime, including Jazz Pajamas, Birth to Birth, and The Logic of Snowflakes. This broadcast features Moe reading...

Poet Ray'd Yo: Michael McClure: Nov 25, 2020

This month’s edition of Poet Ray’d Yo features the documentation of a 1992 reading/concert in Santa Cruz, California, featuring poet Michael McClure accompanied by Ray Manzarek. In the 1990s, McClure,...

Poet Ray'd Yo: David Jhave Johnston (Jhave): Oct 28, 2020

This month’s guest of Poet Ray’d Yo is the Canadian media artist David Jhave Johnston (Jhave), who has most recently published Rerites, a twelve-volume collection of poetry created in conjunction with...

Poet Ray'd Yo: Nada Gordon: Sep 23, 2020

California native, Nada Gordon, has been based in New York City for two decades and spent a number of years living in Japan. She is one of the co-founders of the Flarf collective, the author of at lea...

Poet Ray'd Yo: Lee Ann Brown: Aug 26, 2020

Lee Ann Brown has authored several volumes of poetry, including Polyverse and The Sleep That Changed Everything. She is also the founder of Tender Buttons Press, dedicated to publishing experimental w...

Poet Ray'd Yo: Will Alexander: Jul 22, 2020

Will Alexander is a poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, visual artist, and musician who lives in Los Angeles. The author of more than thirty volumes, his Singing In Magnetic Hoofbeat: Essays, Prose,...

Poet Ray'd Yo: Nathaniel Mackey: Jun 24, 2020

In this broadcast, Nathaniel Mackey: Our True Day Begun Soon Come Qu'ahttet. Poet Ray’d Yo features documentation of Mackey’s performance with musicians at the Mackey Sessions in Durham, North Carolin...

Poet Ray'd Yo: Kristin Prevallet: May 23, 2020

This month's guest on Poet Ray'd Yo, Kristin Prevallet, is author of seven books, including Trance Poetics, and edited A Helen Adam Reader. She is a part of the Language and Thinking faculty at Bard C...

Poet Ray'd Yo: Andy Clausen and Pamela Twining: Apr 25, 2020

This month, Woodstock resident Andy Clausen returns to the program with new poems. Clausen is author of numerous books, including a memoir Beat: The Latter Days of the Beat Generation A First-Hand Acc...

Poet Ray'd Yo: 29th Annual Subterranean Poetry Festival: Mar 28, 2020

In this broadcast, a return to September 2019, with recordings captured at the 29th Annual Subterranean Poetry Festival, held at Widow Jane Mine in Rosendale, New York. Performers at the festival with...

Poet Ray'd Yo: Workers Writers School: Dec 28, 2019

This edition of Poet Ray'd Yo documents an October workshop of the Workers Writers School. The Worker Writers School organizes and facilitates poetry workshops with global trade unions, workers’ cente...

Poet Ray'd Yo: Anne Gorrick: Nov 18, 2019

Anne Gorrick is the author of eight books of poetry including most recently: Beauty, Money, Luck, etc. for Beginners (2019), An Absence So Great and Spontaneous it is Evidence of Light (2018); and The...

Poet Ray'd Yo: Peter Lamborn Wilson: Oct 26, 2019

This broadcast features local author Peter Lamborn Wilson, who’s a political writer, essayist, and poet known for first proposing the concept of the Temporary Autonomous Zone. Wilson reads from his re...

Poet Ray'd Yo: Don Byrd: Sep 28, 2019

Don Byrd is a poet and sound artist who taught at SUNY-Albany for many decades. His books include The Great Dimestore Centennial, Charles Olson's Maximus, and The Poetics of the Common Knowledge.

Poet Ray'd Yo: Nancy Dunlop: Aug 24, 2019

Nancy Dunlop is a poet and essayist who received her Ph.D. in Creative Writing and Poetics at SUNY Albany, where she taught for 25 years. Most recently, she has been curator of Wren, an international...

Poet Ray'd Yo: Jasmine Dreame Wagner: Jul 27, 2019

Jasmine Dreame Wagner is a poet, multimedia artist, and musician. She is author of the books "On a Clear Day," and "Rings," as well as six chapbooks. Wagner is currently at work on her first studio re...

Poet Ray d Yo: From the Field 2019: Jun 21, 2019

From the Field 2019. The program includes recordings of Bobby Previte Improvisation Workshop Ensemble, Red Pine, Tracie Morris, Charles Bernstein, Bruce Andrews, Fred Moten, and Tribalistas.

Poet Ray’d Yo: Pierre Joris: May 25, 2019

This month’s guest on Poet Ray’d Yo is writer and translator Pierre Joris, a Luxembourgian transplant who now resides in Brooklyn. Joris is the author of twenty books of poetry, an award winning trans...

Poet Ray'd Yo: Satan’s Black Acid: Apr 27, 2019

This month’s edition of Poet Ray’d Yo features the local band Satan’s Black Acid, a music and poetry collaboration between Cole Heinowitz and Will Staples. Heinowitz, a Literature professor at Bard, i...

Poet Ray'd Yo: CAConrad: Mar 30, 2019

Poet Ray'd Yo brings 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’s guest on Poe...

Poet Ray'd Yo: Fred Moten: Feb 23, 2019

This month’s guest on Poet Ray’d Yo is poet and scholar Fred Moten. Moten, a professor in Performance Studies at NYU and Guggenheim Fellowship recipient, is author of In the Break: The Aesthetics of t...

Poet Ray'd Yo: Andy Clausen: Jan 26, 2019

Woodstock’s Andy Clausen, January’s guest on Poet Ray’d Yo, is the author of numerous collections of poetry, including Home of the Blues and 40th Century Man. Readings from Clausen’s newly published m...

Poet Ray'd Yo: Dorota Czerner: Dec 18, 2018

December’s Poet Ray’d Yo guest is Dorota Czerner. Czerner, a multi-modal writer and artist from Poland, reads from her work and discusses various artistic projects — including the Red Hook-based magaz...

Poet Ray'd Yo: Lucio Agra: Nov 15, 2018

This broadcast features our first international guest: the poet, scholar, musician, and performance artist Lucio Agra. A professor at Universidade Federal do Recôncavo da Bahia in Brazil, Lucio recent...

Poet Ray'd Yo: The Subterranean Poetry Festival: Oct 18, 2018

In this Pull Over Pledge Drive broadcast, highlights from the 28th Annual Subterranean Poetry Festival, held at Widow Jane Mine in Rosendale, NY on Sep. 8, 2018. The event was curated by Poet Ray'd Yo...

Poet Ray'd Yo: Stephen Cope: Sep 20, 2018

In this broadcast, poet, scholar, and musician Stephen Cope is our guest. Cope teaches at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, and at Bard College. He read and discussed his poems, and spoke about his w...

Poet Ray'd Yo: Dawn Breeze: Aug 16, 2018

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: Edwin Torres: Jul 19, 2018

Performance poet Edwin Torres, veteran of the early 1990s Nuyorican Poetry Café scene, is featured on this month's edition of Poet Ray'd Yo. Torres has authored several books, including Ameriscopia an...

Poet Ray'd Yo: Maria Damon: Jun 21, 2018

A Radio Everywhere! pledge drive broadcast, featuring a conversation with Maria Damon, a professor at Pratt Institute and author of "Dark End of the Street: Margins in American Vanguard Poetry" and ot...

Poet Ray'd Yo: David Rothenberg: May 17, 2018

David Rothenberg is a professor of philosophy and music at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, who has special interests in animal sounds as music. He is author of numerous books, including Why Bi...

Poet Ray'd Yo: Richard Loranger: Apr 19, 2018

Richard Loranger is a writer of poetry and prose, as well as a spoken word, performance, and visual artist who has done more than 400 readings during the past three decades. Currently a resident of Oa...

Poet Ray'd Yo: Carrie Bradley Neves: Mar 15, 2018

This month's guest, Carrie Bradley Neves, is a writer, musician, and singer. She was a founding member of the alternative folk band Ed's Redeeming Qualities, and has played in The Breeders, 100 Watt S...

Poet Ray'd Yo: Amiri Baraka II: Feb 15, 2018

As a Radio Magic Pledge Drive offering, Poet Ray'd Yo presents world premiere broadcasts of works by Amiri Baraka, including performances with the band Blue Ark (Pheeroan Aklaff, Herbie Morgan, Wilber...

Poet Ray'd Yo: Brenda Coultas: Jan 18, 2018

This month’s featured guest is Brenda Coultas, a graduate of Naropa University and the author of several poetry collections, including the tatters (2014). She is a part-time resident of Woodstock, and...

Poet Ray'd Yo: Michael Joyce: Dec 21, 2017

New work by Michael Joyce comes to the fore in this month’s edition of Poet Ray’d Yo. Joyce, a novelist known worldwide for his work with hypertext fiction, has in recent years published three books o...

Poet Ray'd Yo: Readings at 'T' Space: Nov 16, 2017

‘T’ Space, located in Rhinebeck, is an organization committed to uniting poetry, music, art, and architecture. Every year ‘T’ Space hosts events featuring exhibitions, readings, and concerts, and this...

Poet Ray'd Yo: Harvest: Oct 19, 2017

Harvest Pledge Drive Broadcast. Features highlights from the 27th Annual Subterranean Poetry Festival, held at Widow Jane Mine in Rosendale, NY on September 10, 2017. This year’s event was curated by...

Poet Ray'd Yo: Kush: Sep 21, 2017

Kush, who has recorded more than 10,000 hours of audio and video of poets/poetry over the past five decades, is the guest this month’s program. His Cloud House archive, the largest personal collection...

Poet Ray'd Yo: Michael Ruby: Aug 17, 2017

Michael Ruby is author of five full-length poetry collections and co-edited Bernadette Mayer's collected early books. He works as an editor of U.S. news and political articles at The Wall Street Journ...

Poet Ray'd Yo: Douglas Rothschild: Jul 20, 2017

Douglas Rothschild is a poet provocateur who lives in Albany, NY. In addition to writing good poems and publishing them in established journals, he organizes the reading series at Zinc Bar in Manhatta...

Poet Ray'd Yo: Fieldwork 2017: Jun 15, 2017

This month, a special Radios In Motion pledge drive broadcast, with archival recordings made by Chris Funkhouser during the first half of 2017, featuring works by: Andy Clausen, Steve Dalachinsky, Dre...

Poet Ray'd Yo: Alan Sondheim with Azure Carter: May 18, 2017

In addition to his voluminous writings, including Disorders of the Real (Station Hill, 1988), Alan Sondheim is a musician who plays numerous instruments. Beyond releasing LPs on ESP-Disk nearly half a...