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262: Staying Alive: Reconciling Nature, Culture and Gay Rights, 8/2/2023

From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature

As a backlash against LGBTQ rights escalates into an authoritarian crusade, acclaimed author and queer activist Taylor Brorby asks how we can still...

Author Dwayne Ratleff on ‘Dancing to the Lyrics’

From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco

Caption: Dancing to the Lyrics won Dwayne Ratleff a Best Indie Book Award in the “LGBTQ Coming Of Age” category., Credit: Book cover art by Leann E. Johnson / L&J Graphics

Dwayne Ratleff grew up Black, poor and gay in 1960s Baltimore. As a youngster, his grandma taught him: “Don’t explain yourself, be yourself.” His a...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KALW, and WORT

'Funeral Diva' poet Pamela Sneed: "We can heal"

From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco

Caption: Pamela Sneed's poetic memoir "Funeral Diva" is described as a “coming of age in New York City during the late 1980s.”, Credit: Patricia Silva

Pamela Sneed’s prose and poetry can reach out and grab you. She reads selections from her memoir, Funeral Diva, and shares some of her life story. ...

Bought by KALW and WORT

Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet Jericho Brown

From: New Letters on the Air

For National Pride Month, we'll hear from 2020 Pulitzer Prize-winner Jericho Brown, who describes the joy he finds in writing poetry and how his wo...

Bought by WNMU-FM and WNJR

USAF Veteran Lauren Hough: ‘Leaving Isn’t the Hardest Thing’

From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco

Caption: Essayist Lauren Hough in 2018, Credit: Karl Poss IV / Vintage Books

In our queer nod to Veterans Day, we bring you writer Lauren Hough, who grew up in the infamous Christian free-love cult The Family. At 18, she joi...

Bought by KWMR

The Write Question - Rebecca Salazar

From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question

Canadian Poet Rebecca Salazar talks about her new collection, "Sulphurtongue."

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, KWMR, WCNY, Spokane Public Radio and more

The Write Question - Alan Pelaez Lopez - 437

From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question

Alan Pelaez Lopez shares their forthcoming work, Intergalactic Travels: poems from a fugitive alien. They also read several pieces.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio

The Write Question - Casey Charles - 361

From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question

Casey Charles discusses his book, The Monkey Cages, a novel inspired by the 1955 Bosie, ID homosexuality scandal. He also reads a poem from his boo...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, and KWMR

Minnneapolis performance artist Patrick Scully portrays Walt Whitman in one-man show

From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse

Minneapolis performance artist Patrick Scully has created a one-man show about the life and times of Walt Whitman. It's called "Leaves of Grass--Il...

Bought by KVSC

A Public Reading with Poet and Essayist Rigoberto González

From: New Letters on the Air

As National Hispanic Heritage Month is concluding, we also mark October's LGBT History Month with Rigoberto Gonzalez, the 2015 winner of The Bill W...

Bought by KFCF FM, WNJR, KRZA, and WMUU-LP

Chad Harbach, author of "The Art of Fielding"

From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra

Bestselling novelist Chad Harbach talks about his book with host Bob Kustra.

Novel Explores the Meaning of Home

From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question

Megan Kruse talks about and reads from her debut novel, Call Me Home

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KSJD, and Yellowstone Public Radio

Akashic Books & Rosebud Ben Oni

From: NPR Illinois
Series: Quiddity

Features an in depth conversation with Akashic Books Senior Editor Ibrahim Ahmad discussing the independent press’ evolution over the last two deca...

A Conversation with Author, Lillian Faderman

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

Lillian Faderman's writes a "reconstructed memoir" about her mother's life as an immigrant factory worker and single mother during the Great Depres...

Bought by KPIP-LP

Eric Poole, author of 'Where's My Wand?'

From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question

According to People Magazine, 'Where's My Wand?: One Boy's Magical Triumph Over Alienation and Shag Carpeting' is "Gut-splittingly funny ... a deep...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio