Listen and Be Heard Martha Cinader

We listen to highlights from previous climate resilience specials with authors Laura Lengnick, Resilient Agriculture, and Meredith Leigh, The Ethical Meat Handbook. Martha Cinader adds personal comments about changing behavior and recommends books. Poetry by Vanessa Lee Miller. Music by Baba Brinkman and DJ’s for Climate Action.

Tony Robles talks with JOSIAH LUIS ALDERETE, poet and operator of Medicine For Nightmares Bookstore in SF, and JOE TALAUGON, author of the memoir Mestizo Through My Eyes. Alderete shares his poem “Somos” and some choice words about banning books. Martha shares a garden update and thoughts on native wisdom.

I'm on a mission to clear clutter in my home, and most importantly, in my brain. In that spirit, I have been meditating on my garden aspirations, and letting go of feeling guilty about chores that I assigned myself but don't have time for, like daily or even weekly updates.

TONY ROBLES, talks to SCOTT KIKKAWA about his detective novel, Char Siu, set in postwar Hawaii, and INGRID ROJAS CONTRERAS, about her Bogota memoir, The Man Who Could Move Clouds, curanderas and amnesia. Martha talks about banning books and public radio.

We celebrate the life of CRYSTAL CAULEY, a poet, mover, and shaker gone too soon, feature lightning poems from the L&BH open mic, and MELISSA WHITEFORD ST. CLAIR. From the archives spoken word from SHÄ KEY, and STEVE CANNON, and an update on the Muscovy chicks at Martha’s Kitchen Garden.

Opal Palmer Adisa talks about "Pretty Like Jamaica", a story about a "barrel child" in Jamaica living with her grandmother, and Lesley Ann Brown tells a counter story of the Little Mermaid that reckons with the slave trade in Denmark.