Dao Strom, speaks about her work and shares from her latest offering; Tender Revolutions. Marque Gilmore returns to Brooklyn for two nights. He talks with our newest producer, Gail Ward, and Maestro Jay Rodriguez Sierra. https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/10/02/s3e29/

Fifty years after the fall of Saigon, Dao Strom’s Tender Revolutions / Yellow Songs vibrates with the ramifications and ripples of Empire. A hybrid project comprised of writings, music, and visual ephemera, each of… https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/10/01/dao-strom-tender-revolutions-yellow-songs/

Internationally acclaimed drummer/percussionist; future-music & live electronic music performance pioneer; professional international solo artist, producer, arranger and innovative cultural arts practitioner;… https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/10/01/marque-gilmore-drummer-percussionist/

Judy Talaugon is a co-producer and host of Beyond Borders and a founder of The Tribunal Project. Today we take the time for everyone to get to know Judy and her work better, a sort of serious… https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/09/27/beyond-borders-episode-8-talking-about-today-with-judy-talaugon/

This remarkably timely, clear, concise, and pressing intervention is a must read for all organizers and activists fighting for and witnessing the birth of a new world. Shaka A.… https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/09/27/shaka-shakur-republic-of-new-africa-to-palestine-national-liberation-in-context/

The past plays itself out in surprising ways in the lives of people who thought they had moved beyond the nightmares of war and exodus. It comes back on TV in the form of a confession from a cannibal; it enters the… https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/09/24/andrew-lam-birds-of-paradise-lost/

Andrew Lam, Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora In his long-overdue first collection of essays, noted journalist and NPR commentator Andrew Lam explores his lifelong… https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/09/24/andrew-lam-perfume-dreams-reflections-on-the-vietnamese-diaspora/

At times humorous and ecstatic, other times poetic and elegiac, the fourteen pieces in Stories from the Edge of the Sea explore love and loss, lust and grief, longing and heartbreaks through the lives of… https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/09/24/andrew-lam-stories-from-the-edge-of-the-sea/

Charlie Rosario is a graphic designer, visual artist, drummer and poet of Puerto Rican parentage who was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1950. In the late 1960s he began his career in Latin album cover art with a psychedelic painting for Tito… https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/09/24/charlie-rosario/

Andrew Lam fled Vietnam with his family during the fall of Saigon in April 1975 when he was eleven years old. He attended the University of California, Berkeley, studying biochemistry, but abandoned plans for medical school after graduation. He… https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/09/24/andrew-lam/

A Listen & Be Heard Roundtable with Matthew Garrison, Fortuna Sung, Gail Ward, Jay Rodriguez Sierra and Martha Cinader about Shapeshifter Plus and the important role not-for -profits, created by individual artists, play in the Arts. Also, a musical… https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/09/18/s3e27/

Martha Cinader, Judy Talaugon and Jay Rodriguez Sierra are joined by Seth Donnelly, Anna Marie Stanberg and Kyle Stoneman in a roundtable discussion about the goals of Taxpayers Against Genocide and the… https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/09/13/beyond-borders-episode-7-tax-payers-against-genocide/

Martha talks with Eileen Tabios about The Balikbayan Artist, Venancio Igarta, who her Kapwa novel fictionalizes, artistic choices and Kendrick Lamar’s historic half time appearance at the Super Bowl. Also featured, Nick Courtright, of Atmosphere… https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/09/11/s3e5-rewind/

Our featured poet is Deepika Singh. Tony Robles talks with award winning biographer and essayist, Megan Marshall, author of After Lives. An L&BH exclusive, the world premiere of Cairo in the Rain, by Jay Rodriguez Sierra, recorded live in Cairo and… https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/09/04/s3e26/

Two months before he died, renowned literary critic Anatole Broyard called his grown son and daughter to his side to impart a secret he had kept all their lives and most of his… https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/09/03/bliss-broyard-one-drop-my-fathers-hidden-life-a-story-of-race-and-family-secrets/

In each of six essays, Marshall reinvents the personal essay form, as a portal to the past and its lessons for living into the future. The book’s brilliant, assured interplay… https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/09/03/megan-marshall-after-lives-on-biography-and-the-mysteries-of-the-human-heat/

Deepika Singh is an Indian native from Margherita, Assam. By profession, a teacher. She is a budding poetess. Her writings are a reflection of the everyday experiences she has. She thinks the correct words have the power to transform our… https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/09/03/deepika-singh-poet/

Megan Marshall is the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Margaret Fuller: A New American Life as well as Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast and The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism, a… https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/09/03/megan-marshsall-biographer-essayist/

Martha speaks with writer, Vi Khi Nao, and artist Trinh Mai, contributor and cover artist to the 25th anniversary edition of Watermark, published by Texas Tech University Press. In the second half: Groove Collective live at Prospect Park and Breathe… https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/08/28/s3e25/

A tragic first date. An evicted fetus. A restaurant called Sapphở. The flu. Argiope spiders. A room. The sea. Body parts as clothing. A long poem. A short one. A long one. Flipping like Morse signals, the… https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/08/26/a-bell-curve-is-a-pregnant-straight-line-vi-khi-nao/

Trinh Mai is a second-generation Vietnamese American visual artist who examines the refugee and immigrant experience, then and now. Through a vast breath of media, she helps tell the stories of we, the enduring People, while… https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/08/26/trinh-mai-multi-media-artist/

Vi Khi Nao is a multidisciplinary writer working across poetry, fiction, theater, film, and collaborative art. She won the 2016 Nightboat Poetry Prize for The Old Philosopher and the 2017 Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize for A… https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/08/26/vi-khi-nao-poet-writer/

In "Hush, Puppy" a neighborhood, a city and memories are more than just a neighborhood, a city and memories. "Hush, Puppy" is a call and response praise song to the antimony of being Black and Gullah and Southern in Charleston, South Carolina and the… https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/08/21/s3e24/

Tony Robles welcomes Donna Janell Bowman, co-author of Wings of an Eagle, The Gold Medal Dreams of Billy Mills. We feature the poetry of Suzette Clark Bradshaw on Charlottesville and Gaza. C.L. Willis on being Appalachian, and transformative… https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/08/14/s3e12-rewind/

Our featured novelist is Cal Hoffman, author of Easy to Slip. Our featured poet is Lan Doung, contributor to Watermark, a landmark anthology of Vietnamese American writing. New music and poetry by Jay Rodriguez Sierra and Martha Cinader. https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/08/07/s3e23/

The Sympathizer is a sweeping epic of love and betrayal. The narrator, a communist double agent, is a "man of two minds," a half-French, half-Vietnamese army captain who arranges to come to America after the Fall of Saigon,… https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/08/06/the-sympathizer-viet-thanh-nguyen/

The title of this debut collection, Nothing Follows, is reappropriated from a government document establishing the beginning of a refugee family's time in the United States. At every coordinate of their lives, the refugee family… https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/08/06/nothing-follows-lan-p-duong/

After making an attempt on her own life, sixteen-year-old Deborah Blau is diagnosed with schizophrenia. With the reluctant and fearful consent of her parents, she enters a psychiatric hospital many hours… https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/08/06/i-never-promised-you-a-rose-garden-joanne-greenberg/

The summer of '28 was a vintage season for a growing boy. A summer of green apple trees, mowed lawns, and new sneakers. Of half-burnt firecrackers, of gathering dandelions, of Grandma's belly-busting dinner. It was a summer of… https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/08/06/dandelion-wine-ray-bradbury/

Sam Kovner reads messages on walls and hears voices in the hall, and wonders: if you find yourself losing your mind, how do you get well? Winter, 1976, Columbia University. Hearing voices and seeing hateful writing on walls, early… https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/08/06/easy-to-slip-cal-hoffman/

Lan Duong is Associate Professor in Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Treacherous Subjects: Gender, Culture, and Trans-Vietnamese Feminism and coeditor of Southeast Asian Women in the… https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/08/06/lan-duong-poet/

CAL HOFFMAN is a writer, educator, and actor. He graduated from Catholic University and attended the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London, as well as the MFA Fiction Writing Program at Columbia University. He has taught… https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/08/06/cal-hoffman-author/

Martha welcomes Jonathan Thirkield to the audio garden to talk about his new book of poetry, Infinity Pool. We welcome a new co-host, Judy Talaugon to the L&BH Hour and we talk with her about The Tribunal Project. We persist in resisting the… https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/07/31/s3e11-rewind/

Martha Cinader, Judy Talaugon and Jay Rodriguez Sierra are joined by darkroom masters Russell Frederick, Anderson Zaca and Ozier Muhammad to talk about Season… https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/07/26/beyond-borders-episode-6-with-special-guests-russell-frederick-anderson-zaca-and-ozier-muhammad/

Anderson Zaca lives in NYC and holds a degree in photography and film production. He is the author of *Block Party NYC: Soul of Summer* and *Fire Island Invasion: Day of Independence*. Zaca has exhibited his work internationally… https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/07/25/anderson-zaca-photography/

After the first day of class Russell knew what he wanted to do for the rest of his life and he never looked back. At this time he was working in healthcare and in nursing school. A career as a nurse would be steady work but a… https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/07/25/russell-frederick-photography/

Our featured guest is Mark Talbert, author of Your Yard is a Garden. Our featured poets are Mary Oishi, Kellie Richardson, Josiah Luis Alderete, Homer Erotic and Blagovesta Momchedjikova. New music and poetry by Jay Rodriguez Sierra and Martha Cinader. https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/07/24/s3e22/

Our featured guest is music historian, Preston Lauterbach, author of Before Elvis: The African American Musicians Who Made the King, interviewed by Tony Robles. Our featured poet is Latasha Diggs. New music by Jay Rodriguez Sierra, and new poetry by… https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/07/17/s3e21/

Preston Lauterbach is author of the American music classic The Chitlin’ Circuit (2011) and the history of the main street of Black America, Beale Street Dynasty (2015). His latest, Before Elvis: The African American Musicians Who… https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/07/16/preston-lauterbach-author/

After Baz Luhrmann's movie, Elvis, hit theaters, audiences and critics alike couldn't help but question the Black origins of Elvis Presley's music and style, reigniting a… https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/07/15/before-elvis-the-african-american-musicians-who-made-the-king-preston-lauterbach/

Beyond Borders – Episode 5 – with Special Guest Craig Harris Martha Cinader, Judy Talaugon and Jay Rodriguez Sierra are joined by Craig S. Harris, a trombonist, composer, bandleader, and gifted sonic… https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/07/12/beyond-borders-episode-5-with-special-guest-craig-harris/

Listen & Be Heard Remix Volume Three: a timely blend of our guests reading from their work, highlights from previous episodes, and a few surprises. https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/07/10/s3e20/

Listen & Be Heard Remix Volume Two: a timely blend of our guests reading from their work, highlights from previous episodes, and a few surprises. https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/07/03/s3e10-rewind/

Martha Cinader, Judy Talaugon and Jay Rodriguez Sierra are joined by Arnoldo García, community-based poet, musician, visual artist, human rights organizer and dedicated restorative justice… https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/06/28/beyond-borders-episode-4-with-special-guest-arnoldo-garcia/

Arnoldo García is a community-based poet, musician, visual artist, human rights organizer and a dedicated restorative justice practitioner/trainer. He… https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/06/27/arnoldo-garcia-poet-musician-visual-artist-human-rights-organizer-restorative-justice-practitioner-trainer/

Our featured guest is essayist, Monica Macansantos, author of Returning to My Father's Kitchen, interviewed by Tony Robles Our featured poet is Elizabeth Perlman. New music by Billy Harper, sung by Judy Bady, and a montage of words of music created by… https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/06/26/s3e19/

When Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in 1968, Baldwin was living in California in a rented house in Los Angeles, where he was writing a screenplay based on Alex Haley’s The Autobiography of Malcolm X. He received the tragic… https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/06/25/james-baldwin-author/

This compilation of 27 poems was written over the course of 25 years, from 1998 to 2023. (The title is reflects the author's extreme delay in sharing her work—and yes, that is a unicorn finger puppet, taking time to smell the… https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/06/24/sorry-im-late-elizabeth-perlman/