Cover to Cover with Jack Foley

06.01.16 - 3:00pm

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Today’s show is a sort of experiment. Two veteran KPFA broadcasters, Nina Serrano and Jack Foley will spend an hour in intense conversation. Since they are both prominent, active Bay Area poets, they will present their own work along with the work of others. Guests will appear. Old programs will be excerpted. New ideas will be exchanged. Come join these locuranderos whose young minds and old experience will shiver your timbers and tickle your whooseit.

05.04.16 - 3:00pm

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On today’s show Jack reads a few pieces dealing with William Shakespeare’s work.

04.27.16 - 3:00pm

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Today’s show features more tracks from the new CD Blood on the Rose / Fuil ar an Rós, available at the website everlastingvoices.ie.

04.20.16 - 3:00pm

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Today’s show deals with a rebellion that Gerry Hunt described in his excellent graphic novel, Easter 1916, as undertaken by “an unlikely band of freedom fighters—teachers, poets, writers, patriots, and trade unionists…From this dramatic gesture, a nation is born.” The show features tracks from the new CD Blood on the Rose / Fuil ar an Rós.

04.13.16 - 3:00pm

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“Border Cantos.” Today’s show features photographer Richard Misrach and experimental composer Guillermo Galindo. It is a celebration of “Border Cantos,” an extraordinary exhibit currently at the San José Museum of Art.

04.06.16 - 3:00pm

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Jack begins National Poetry Month with poet-novelist-story teller John Smelcer, who refers to himself as an “insider/outsider: living between two cultures.”

03.30.16 - 3:00pm

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“The Empowering of Women.”   Jack and Adelle Foley were asked by Oakland’s High Street Presbyterian Church to give a talk on “The Empowering of Woman.” On today’s show Adelle joins her husband in presenting the talk and goes on to read some of her own poetry. The talk begins,   In 1949 the French … Continued

03.23.16 - 3:00pm

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Today’s show is an examination of the work of the unjustly forgotten American poet, Sarah Morgan Piatt. Sarah Morgan Piatt lived from 1836 to 1919. Emily Dickinson lived from 1830 to 1886, so they were near contemporaries. Dickinson was a prolific private poet but fewer than a dozen of her nearly 1,800 poems were published … Continued

03.16.16 - 3:00pm

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A tribute to Al Young—originally meant for Black History Month. Al Young fell ill and was unable to appear at a reading he had agreed to do. He asked Jack Foley to substitute for him and to read some of his work. Jack decided to make the reading a tribute to Al Young. You’ll hear … Continued

03.09.16 - 3:00pm

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Today’s show is a tribute to poet Anne Waldman (b. 1945). Jack writes: Anne Waldman, “spiritual wife” of Allen Ginsberg and “writer, performer, collaborator, professor, editor, scholar, and cultural/political activist” (Wikipedia), has been a force of moral awareness, spiritual exploration, and wildly experimental poetry since the 1960s. The prototype of Waldman as “fast-speaking woman” was … Continued