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...

Poet Ray’d Yo: Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, Margaret Walker, Amiri Baraka: Feb 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. In honor o...

Poet Ray'd Yo: George Quasha: Jan 27, 2022

This month's edition of "Poet Ray'd Yo" features focuses on the work of George Quasha, specifically his poems known as preverbs. Quasha is author of more than 30 books and is an editor at Station Hill...

Poet Ray'd Yo: Wanda Phipps: Nov 25, 2021

A conversation with Wanda Phipps, a Brooklyn-based poet, translator, and performer. Phipps is the co-founder to the Yara Arts Group. Her books include Wake-Up Calls, Field of Wanting, and Mind Honey....

Poet Ray'd Yo: Ed Sanders: Oct 28, 2021

This broadcast is a personal retrospective of Ed Sanders' work, featuring selected recordings made by host Chris Funkhouser. Sanders, a resident of Woodstock, is the author of dozens of volumes of poe...

Poet Ray'd Yo: Steve Benson: Aug 26, 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: Marcella Durand: Jul 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. This month...

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: 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: 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...