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: 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: 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...

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: 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: 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...