Fearlessly facing nouns and participles, recklessly splitting infinitives, in come Nina Serrano and Jack Foley, KPFA’s interwoven pair. Today’s show will feature the usual mixture of wit, brouhaha, political awareness, music and daring do. A special aspect with be the recitation of Jack’s piece, “Noir” by the author and Sangye Land.
Weekly interviews with poets, performance artists, film-makers, novelists and storytellers. Hosted by Nina Serrano the second Wednesday of the month; Jovelyn Richards the third & fifth Wednesday; and Reyna Cowan the fourth Wednesday.
Previous shows have dealt with Ha Jin’s excellent biography of Li Bai (Li Po), The Banished Immortal: A Life of Li Bai. Today’s show is a consideration of Ha Jin’s own poetry. The focus will be on his most recent book, A Distant Center, though Jack will read from other works as well.
Culture critic Jennifer Stone’s commentary on social justice as reflected in film, television, theatre and mass media: the Zeitgeist watch.
Weekly interviews with poets, performance artists, film-makers, novelists and storytellers. Hosted by Nina Serrano the second Wednesday of the month; Jovelyn Richards the third & fifth Wednesday; and Reyna Cowan the fourth Wednesday.
Today’s show is the third, concluding program in the series about the event KPFA presented on January 23 at The Hillside Club in Berkeley. That event was a talk by the Chinese-American novelist, poet, and National Book Award winner, Ha Jin, who had recently published The Banished Immortal: A Life of Li Bai (Li Po). The event was hosted by Jack Foley. Today we will present excerpts from the freewheeling, illuminating discussion between Jack and the author; the recording was done by Jane Heaven. In this excerpt Jack and Ha Jin were discussing “emotional parallels” between Ha Jin’s life and Li Bai’s (Li Po’s). Both men experienced the pain of exile.
Culture critic Jennifer Stone’s commentary on social justice as reflected in film, television, theatre and mass media: the Zeitgeist watch.
Weekly interviews with poets, performance artists, film-makers, novelists and storytellers. Hosted by Nina Serrano the second Wednesday of the month; Jovelyn Richards the third & fifth Wednesday; and Reyna Cowan the fourth Wednesday.
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A celebration of the art of poetry, hosted by jack Foley.
