Talking Earth

Caitlyn Curran holds an MFA from the University of Idaho and currently lives in Portland. Her recent work can be found in: The American Journal of Poetry,  Poetry.org, Raleigh Review, Queen Mob’s Tea House, and elsewhere. She was a 2018 Centrum Fellow at the Port Townsen...

Host Benjamin Fisher presents a special recording of Howl featuring 22 poets, and an Interview with Christopher Luna, inaugural Poet Laureate of Clark County discussing Ginsberg and poetic inspiration. Christopher Luna is a collage artist, poet, editor, writing coach...

This episode features diane Corson, John Beer and Jason Mashak. Hose dan raphael will read some poems by maragareta waterman and Mary Misel. Diane Corson has an art and design degree from Montana State University in Bozeman, where she lived a fairly primitive life for thi...

Host Jason Kastrup will feature three amazing writers: Miranda Schmidt, Callum Angus, and Justine Chan. I also share the poems that many writers and people I’ve interviewed tell me ripped apart or open their soul.

Zosia Wiatr is a poet living in Portland, Oregon. Her poetry has most recently been published in Fence Magazine and Old Pal Magazine. You can visit her website at zosiawiatr.com.   Blossom Appel has a background in creative writing spanning three decades, from Chicago's...

April 13th, 2026 Michael Franklin teaches 'Poetic Voices', a high school poetry class that allows students such as Emily Kelley, Drake Peters, and Alissa Peterson to dig deep into their poetic self. Michael and his students will be in Portland on Friday, April 17th at ...

Kevin Sampsell is the author of the new novel Baby in the Night (published by Impeller Press tomorrow, 3/17) as well as other books.  A collection of his collage art and poetry, I Made an Accident, was published by Clash Books in 2022. His spoken word collection, Fang...

this episode features Amy Nanette Glin, Sam Lohmann  and Claudia Saleeby Savage. Amy Nanette Glin.is a poet, author, and personal development coach who’s lived an unconventional life. From managing comedians to cooking for celebrities and priests to studying addiction r...

Emmett Wheatfall lives in Portland, Oregon where he writes, records, publishes, and performs poetry. Twice nominated for Oregon Poet Laureate and is the winner of the prestigious 2024 Oregon Poetry Association Patricia Ruth Banta Award.  Press, an imprint of Barclay Pres...

This episode, hosted by dan raphael, features Justin Rigamonti, Jenny Root and Christopher Diaz. Justin Rigamonti teaches writing at Portland Community College and serves as the Poetry Coordinator for Chatter PDX. His poems have been recently published or are forthcomin...

This program features Jonathan Penton, from New Orleans, Julie Sparling from Camas, and Portland's own dan raphael, who is also the host. Jonathan Penton founded the online journal Unlikely Stories in 1998, and still runs it as Editor-in-Chief. He is the Technical Directo...

This show, hosted by dan raphael, features Portland writers Joshua Gaines, Rich Perin and Brittany Baldwin. Joshua Gaines is a former Air Force Captain who earned his Writing MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Joshua's work has been published in The Io...

Kelly Terwilliger is the author of three previous collections of poetry, A Glimpse of Oranges; Riddle, Fish Hook, Thorn, Key, and Night Maps. She reads tonight from Endnotes, which comes out 2/6/26,  where she combines poetry, prose, and visual art to explore unexpected ...

This is a re-broadcast and post of Talking Earth from 10/15/23, featuring Jim Shugrue, Andrea Hollander and Sam Lohmann

John miller, recently back from a pilgrimage in Spain, is the author of Andes, which he’s reading from here, and Olympic, both from the Poetry Box. His poems have appeared in Opening the Gate, Black Heron, Third Wednesday and others. He is a founder of Portland Ars Poeti...

Former Portland resident. Sabine Milller grew up in a family that diagrammed sentences and played Scrabble at the dinner table She’s written three chapbooks: Circumference of Mercy (Mountains and Rivers Press), Branch to Finch (Ornithopter Press), and Cairns (Half Daymoo...