Cover to Cover Open Book
3:30 PM Pacific Time: Wednesdays
Weekly interviews with poets, performance artists, film-makers, novelists and storytellers. The first week of every month is a combined one-hour program featuring Jack Foley & Nina Serrano. The archive can be found at Cover to Cover with Jack Foley. The second week is hosted by Nina Serrano, Poet 2 Poet. The third week is hosted by Jovelyn Richards, Jovelyn’s Bistro. The fourth week is hosted by Reyna Cowan, Frame to Frame. And the fifth week (if there is one) is hosted again by Jovelyn Richards, Jovelyn’s Bistro.
Cover to Cover Open Book – July 3, 2009
Host Producer, Nina Serrano premiers Salvadoran poet Jorge Argueta’s new poem written in response to his visit to El Salvador at the time of the elections in March 2009. In this major work read by Argueta in English using his own translation, the poet discusses the smallest nation in the Americas' historic struggles for democracy … Continued
Cover to Cover Open Book – June 19, 2009
On Open Book, we will hear heartfelt stories of coming out, of same-sex marriage and of other experiences from the LGBTQQI community. Earlier this month, StoryCorps came to KPFA to do some recordings for this month's Gay Pride celebrations. StoryCorps is an oral history project based on the idea that the stories of everyday people … Continued
Cover to Cover Open Book – Poet to Poet
Poet to Poet: Poet/host Nina Serrano converses with poet, Elías Hruska, author of This Side and Other Things about his most recent collection of poems, Blues for a Summer Day. He reads his poems on the theme of love and loss, cutting across time, place, ethnicity, and generations. Within this framework Elías combines time and … Continued
Cover to Cover Open Book – May 29, 2009
Sharon Ott, director of the Berkeley Rep production of /You, Nero/, now playing through June 28th, talks about the play and about her work as a director with host Richard Wolinsky.