CALENDAR OF UPCOMING EVENTS (Click on Dates for Additional Info)
Audio & Podcasts
- Adagio for Strings (Choral Version)
- After Hours Swing, Boogie, Jazz, Blues & Jive
- Al Green: Let’s Stay Together
- Al Young & Charles L. Robinson Interview with Avotcja at KPFA
- Al Young & Denny Zeitlin with Michael Krasny (19 March 2008)
- Al Young at Grace Cathedral
- Al Young in Pasadena
- Al Young Mini-Interview with Don Mager in Charlotte, NC
- Al Young on News & Notes: Farai Chideya
- Al Young with Michael Krasny (28 December 2006)
- Amazing Grace: Victor Wooten
- American Book Awards | C-SPAN Book Weekend
- B.O.O.K. (Best of Our Knowledge)
- Barry White: Practice What You Preach
- BBC
- Birdland: Weather Report
- Bizet’s Carmen
- Bourgeois Blues: Leadbelly
- Brown-Eyed Girl
- California Report (2005)
- California Report (2006)
- California Report (2007)
- California Report (2008)
- CBC
- Center for Creative Voices in Media
- Christmas Time Is Here
- Cold Sweat: James Brown
- Compared to What: Les McCann, Eddie Harris
- Cover to Cover with Jack Foley
- David Harvey’s Lectures on Capitalism
- Dead Man Blues: Jelly Roll Morton & His Red Hot Peppers
- Deutsche Welle
- Dima: Jazz Vocalist
- Do You Know the Way to San José?
- Don’t You Worry ‘Bout a Thing
- Dorka Keehn: Keehn on Art (KKGN Green AM 960)
- Electric Company (Opening Theme)
- Fela
- Forest Flower: Charles Lloyd
- Frankie & Johnny: Cecil Brown with NPR’s Steve Innskeep
- Fresh Air
- Georges Brassens
- Giant Steps (Scored)
- Goodnight, Irene: Leadbelly
- Grandma’s Hands: Bill Withers
- Harlem on My Mind: Ethel Waters
- Heatwave
- Herbie Hancock and Oscar Peterson
- High Heel Sneakers: Tommy Tucker
- Hit That Jive, Jack: Diana Krall
- How I Got Over
- I Told You I Love You, Now Get Out!
- Ishmael Reed Plays Tadd Dameron
- It’s a Family Affair
- It’s in His Kiss (The Shoop Shoop Song)
- It’s Not Easy Being Green: Kermit the Frog
- It’s Not Easy Being Green: Ray Charles
- J.S. Bach: Toccata and Fugue in D Minor
- Jack Foley: Cover to Cover KPFA Podcasts
- Jazz Idiom: Francesca Rheannon interviews Al Young & Charles L. Robinson
- Jimmy Cliff: You Can Get It If You Really Want To
- Just the Way You Are: Billy Joel
- Just the Way You Are: Diana Krall
- Keith Jarrett: The Köln Concert/part 1
- Koko: Charlie Parker & His Bebop Boys
- KQED Forum
- La Historia de Un Amor: Eydie Gormé y El Trio Los Panchos
- La Historia de Un Amor: Luis Miguel
- Langston Hughes: Democracy Now!
- Lean On Me: Bill Withers
- Leon Thomas: The Creator Has a Master Plan
- Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off
- Let’s Get It On: Marvin Gaye
- Light My Fire: José Feliciano
- Light My Fire: The Doors
- Love and Happiness: Al Green
- Maiden Voyage
- Mama Told Me Not to Come: Three Dog Night
- Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Parting Words
- Mary Lou Williams Interview, 1976
- Mary Lou Williams: Gloria
- Mary Lou Williams: Roll ‘Em
- Mexico Radio
- Midnight at the Oasis
- Moose the Moose: Charlie Parker
- Morning Edition: Renee Montagne Interviews Al Young
- Morning Show KPFA
- Nashville Cats: Lovin’ Spoonful
- Net Neutrality: The Communicators
- Never Been to Spain
- New York City: Leadbelly
- Newspapers Online from Around the World
- Nothing from Nothing: Billy Preston
- Nova M Radio
- NPR’s Morning Edition: Al Young’s Poet Laureate Appointment
- O Mary, Don’t You Weep: Aretha
- Oh Happy Day: Edwin Hawkins Singers
- Pacifica Radio
- Pandora
- Pannonica: Thelonious Monk
- Peter B. Collins
- Poetry Man: Phoebe Snow
- Poetry Off the Shelf
- Prison Labor (Made in the USA)
- Proud Mary: Ike & Tina
- Radio Nederlands
- Radio Paris
- Respect Yourself: Staple Singers
- Richard Pryor: Cecil Brown and Al Young with Rain Pryor
- Riders on the Storm: The Doors
- Ring of Fire: Johnny Cash
- Romeo & Juliet: Charles Latshaw conducts Prokofiev
- Shotgun: Jr. Walker & the All-Stars
- Sidewinder: Lee Morgan
- Sir Duke
- Smooth Operator: Sade
- Snoop Dogg: Riders on the Storm
- Song for My Father: Horace Silver
- Sonny Rollins: The Bridge (Jazz Video Podcast)
- Spanish from Spain: Live Streaming Radio
- St. Thomas: Sonny Rollins
- Symphony Cast
- Take It Easy: The Eagles
- Theme from Shaft: Isaac Hayes
- Tighten Up: Archie Bell & the Drells
- Unobstructed with Alaina R. Alexander
- WBAI Cat Radio Café
- What’s It All About, Alfie?
- What’s Love Got to Do with It?: Tina Turner
- Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam (Martin Luther King)
- Wild Sanctuary
- Winter Soldier 2008
- WJBC Bloomington: Al Young Interview with Steve Fast
- Woolly Bully
- World Wide Word Radio
- Writer’s Voice with Francesca Rheannon
- You Sexy Thing: Hot Chocolate
- ZĂłcalo Radio | 89.3 KPCC-FM, Los Angeles
Poetry Treasury
- About Poetry: Northern California
- Al Young at National Book Festival 2005
- Authors@Google: Al Young
- Basics of Writing Poetry
- Beau Blue’s Poem Animations
- Billy Collins: Forgetfulness (An Animation)
- Billy Collins: The Dead (Animation)
- Brave New Voices
- Carol Muske-Dukes Reads Ann Stanford
- Casa Poema
- Chinese Poetry
- Cities of Refuge
- Dana Gioia Online
- Denise Levertov: What They Were Like
- Dissident Writers Need Our Help
- Don Mager.Org | Poems & Essays on Literature & Music
- Dylan Thomas: The Refusal to Mourn
- Favorite Poem Project
- For Gwendolyn Brooks (Lamont B. Stepto)
- Gary Gach: What Book!?: Buddha Poems from Beat to Hiphop
- Harryette Mullen on Bob Kaufman
- History of Poetry
- How Does a Poem Mean?
- In My Craft or Sullen Art
- In the Moonlight a Worm (Haiku Lesson Site)
- John Haynes: Winner of the 2006 Costa Poetry Award
- John Oliver Simon Translates Elena Cross’ “Vacantes”
- Just Write: Christopher Waldrop
- Kenneth Rexroth
- Langston Hughes: Democracy Now!
- Mi Poesias Magazine
- Miller Williams: Poetry and the People Who Write It
- Need a Poem?
- Negritude | La NĂ©gritude
- Nicolás Guillén (1902-1989)
- Norton Poets Online
- Pablo Neruda: Poema 20 (en español)
- Poem Reader’s Checklist
- Poems and Poetics | Jerome Rothenberg
- Poetry & Poets in Rags
- Poetry 180
- Poetry Alive!
- Poetry at the Ruskin: A History
- Poetry Flash
- Poetry Foundation Fellowships March 31, 2008 Deadline
- Poetry International Web
- Poetry Off the Shelf
- Poetry on Record
- Poetry Out Loud!
- Poetry Society of America Resources Page
- Poetry Speaks: Expanded
- Poetry, Poetry, Poetry, Poetry, Poetry
- Prose Poem
- Prosody
- Rhyme Renaissance at Harvard (Baba Brinkman 2006)
- Rhyming Dictionary & Thesaurus
- River of Words
- Shadow Poetry
- Shakespeare
- T.S. Eliot: The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock
- T.S. Eliot: The Wasteland
- Teaching Poetry and Humor
- Ways and Ways to San José
- What Is a Prose Poem?
Sites to Behold
- A Gathering of the Tribes
- Abu Ghraib
- Academy of American Poets
- Ad Busters
- African American Jazz and Rap: Michael Carroll
- AfricanWriter.Com
- Afrocentric News
- Aimee Allison’s Blog
- Al Young at Johnson C. Smith: Joshua Nypaver’s Photostreams
- Al Young in Concert with Paolo Fresu and Furio Castri (Milano 1997)
- Al Young in India 2005
- Al Young in Pasadena
- Al Young in the L.A. Times
- Al Young on Jack Spicer and Silence (Chicago Review 1970)
- Al Young’s “Ponce de LeĂłn: A Morning Walk” on NPR’s Writer’s Almanac
- Al Young’s Net
- Al Young’s Poetry Workshop at JCSU: Joshua Nypaver’s Photostream
- Al Young: California Public Servant
- Al Young: Mississippi Writer
- Al Young: The Nathaniel Mackey Interview (Melus 1978)
- American Book Awards
- Answers.Com on Al Young
- Antiwar.com
- Archie Shepp: The Cries of My People
- Aretha Franklin-Al Young Connection
- Asili
- Authors on the Air (Publishers Weekly)
- Avotcja (pronounced Ah-VOTCH-ah)
- AWP: Association of Writers & Writing Programs
- Barcelona Review
- Bay View: National Black Newspaper
- BBC
- Black Scholar
- BlogCritics
- Blues & Blues | Luciano Federighi
- Blues & Democracy: Al Young & the Iowa Blues All-Stars
- BookFinder’s Al Young
- California Arts Council
- California Center for the Book
- California Library Association
- California State Library
- California’s Laureate on Poetry’s Power
- California’s Poet Laureate Steps Out
- Carmen McRae: The Definitive Website
- Cave Canem (Beware of the Dog)
- CBC
- Celebrating Black History 365
- Chester Himes (GiveADamn)
- Chinese Poetry
- Cities of Refuge
- ClimateScienceWatch
- Code Z
- Common Dreams
- Corporate Crime Reporter
- Corrections Corporation of America
- Council on World Affairs
- Counterpunch
- Crooks & Liars
- Dark Sky Magazine
- Davey D’s Rap/Hip-Hop Corner
- David Whyte’s Many Rivers Home
- Dawn: Pakistan’s English Language Newspaper
- Declaration of Independence
- Denver Metropolitan College/Noel Distinguished Visiting Professorship
- Detroit Memories
- Deutsche Welle
- Diabetes Information
- Diálogos (Spanish and English language cultural exchange in Canada)
- Dick Gregory Global Watch
- Dima: Jazz Vocalist
- DJ Spooky
- E-Prime
- Earth Clock
- Easy Winter Workouts to Stay in Shape
- EBigFoto.Com
- Ebony|Jet Online
- Eclectica
- El Corno Emplumado
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Eudora Welty Writers Symposium
- Every Writer’s Resource
- Exquisite Corpse: A Journal of Letters and Life
- Federico GarcĂa Lorca: Duende (Theory & Divertissement)
- First Person, Present Tense Revisited
- Food & Water Watch
- Food Clock
- Foreign Affairs
- Frame After Frame: Herman Leonard’s Jazz Photos
- Global Change Master Directory
- Global Research
- Go Solar California
- Governor Schwarzenegger Appoints Al Young
- Guantánamo and Its Aftermath
- Guardian
- Guide to Grammar & Writing
- Guide to Grammar and Style: Jack Lynch
- Heat String Theory
- History of Poetry
- HIV/AIDS Complete Resource
- Human Rights Watch
- IMF | International Monetary Fund
- Infragard
- Internet Archive
- Internet Public Library
- Jazz.Com
- JazzTimes’ Top 50 Picks of 2008
- John Oliver Simon
- Just Who Is Al Young?
- Kenneth Patchen Home Page
- Kiss Machine
- Konch
- La Prensa (en español)
- Labor Notes
- Latin American Masters
- Laureate Gets His Wreath
- Let Me Tell You Where I’ve Been
- Listen & Be Heard Weekly
- Literary Criticism
- London Review of Books
- Love (Incorporating Hate) | 1966
- Manliness and Living with a Woman
- MAPLight.org | Money & Politics
- Marc Silber
- Michael Young
- Midori’s Home Page
- Mingus Mingus Mingus (The Official Site)
- Mississippi Writers and Musicians
- MonkZone
- Multilingual Anthology of American Literature
- National Book Awards 2008
- National Book Foundation
- National Cancer Institute
- National Enquirer
- National Geographic Science News
- Newspapers Online from Around the World
- Novels Listed by Point of View
- Ocean Springs, MS
- Pacifica Radio
- Panopticon Review
- Patrick Hunt’s Net
- Peterman’s Eye
- Ploughshares
- Ploughshares Fund
- PNAC (Project for a New American Century)
- Poetry After the Storm
- Poetry Flash
- Poetry, Poetry, Poetry, Poetry, Poetry
- Prison Labor (Made in the USA)
- Prison: More Than One in Every 100 American Adults Behind Bars
- ProPublica: Journalism in the Public Interest
- Puzzle Master Will Shortz NPR Sunay Edition Archives
- Queen Calafia’s Island | Kevin Starr
- Radio Nederlands
- Raw Story
- Salon.Com
- Saroyan Centennial (1908-2008)
- ScienceNews
- Shock Doctrine: Naomi Klein
- Sky Museum
- Slate
- Slow Trains
- Smithsonian Jazz
- Softblow
- Solo Café
- Space Photos
- Speak Out California!
- Squaw Valley Community of Writers Workshops
- Syntax: What It Is
- Ted Joans (1928-2003)
- The Economist
- The SmokingGun
- Top Ten African American Literature Anthologies
- Truth And Politics
- TV News Lies
- U.S. Constitution
- United Nations
- Urban Dictionary
- USA Today
- Village Voice
- VONA (Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation)
- Water Advocates
- Ways to Listen to Tuck and Patti
- Weather Channel
- White House
- Wild Sanctuary
- Winter Soldier 2008
- Women’s Voices
- Words Without Borders: International Literature Online
- Wynton
- Yma Sumac Web Site
- Young Turks
- Youth Speaks/The Living Word Project
- Zyzzyva
Video
- A Few Words in Defense of Our Country: Randy Newman
- A Man Named McCoy
- Al Young & Ishmael Reed: Legacy Conversations 2008
- Al Young at National Book Festival 2005
- Al Young Mini-Interview with Don Mager in Charlotte, NC
- Al Young with Jazz at South Pasadena Library
- Alan Watts: Life and Music
- Albert Einstein Quotes
- Alison Krause Live
- Allison Crowe: Time After Time
- Amazing Grace: Victor Wooten
- American Book Awards | C-SPAN Book Weekend
- Anita O’Day: Indestructible
- Anthropology | Bud Powell
- Archie Shepp: Mama Rose
- Armando’s Rumba|Autumn Leaves: Chick Corea & Bobby McFerrin
- Astor Piazzolla & Yo Yo Ma (Libertango)
- Authors@Google: Al Young
- Bad, Bad Whiskey (Amos Milburn)
- Bee Gees: Stayin’ Alive
- Benny Hill: Poetry & Jazz, 1972
- Billie Holiday: Strange Fruit
- Billy Collins: Forgetfulness (An Animation)
- Billy Collins: The Dead (Animation)
- Birdland: Weather Report
- Black Stacey
- Bluesette: Stevie Wonder & Toots Thielemans
- Body and Soul: Archie Shepp Quintet
- Brenda Got a Big Ole Butt: LL Cool J
- Bud Powell in Paris, 1959
- Bunny Briggs & Charlie Barnet
- Chakra Meditation
- Change for the Better
- Chinua Achebe at Harvard 2007
- Coleman Hawkins | Charlie Parker
- Consciousness
- Cousin Mary: Stanley Jordan
- Denise Levertov: What They Were Like
- Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes
- Dina Hardy
- Dissident Writers Need Our Help
- Django (Modern Jazz Quartet)
- Donna Summer: On the Radio
- Dueling Banjos (Scene from Deliverance)
- Duke Ellington & the Harlem Renaissance
- Dylan Thomas: The Refusal to Mourn
- E=mc2: Eintein’s Special Theory of Relativity
- Emily Remler (1957-1990): Red Blouse Bossa Nova
- For Gwendolyn Brooks (Lamont B. Stepto)
- Fora TV
- Fritjof Capra: The Systems View of Life
- Future of Jazz (1959)
- Giant Steps: McCoy Tyner
- Goldberg Variations (Aria): J.S. Bach
- Harlem Renaissance (A Student View)
- Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas: Judy Garland
- Herbie Hancock, Billy Cobham, Ron Carter
- Hip Hop Violin: Paul Dateh
- Hit That Jive, Jack
- In My Craft or Sullen Art
- Ishmael Reed Plays Tadd Dameron
- It Don’t Mean a Thing
- J.L. Hudson Implosion 1998
- J.S. Bach: Toccata and Fugue in D Minor
- James Brown and Pavarotti
- Joe Pass
- John Coltrane (My Favorite Things, 1961)
- John Haynes: Winner of the 2006 Costa Poetry Award
- John Lee Hooker (Boom Boom Boom Boom)
- Johnny Nash: I Can See Clearly Now
- Joy Harjo (Poet, Guitarist, Saxophonist)
- Juan Felipe Herrera
- Justin Kaplan: The Cruelty of George W. Bush
- Keith Jarrett and Chick Corea Play Mozart
- Keith Jarrett: Tokyo Solo Concert Encore
- Kenneth Rexroth
- Killing Me Softly: Roberta Flack
- Kronos Quartet with Tanya Tagaq
- La India & Eddie Palmieri (Mi Primera Rumba)
- Langston Hughes & Louis Armstrong: Brief Bios
- Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off: Fred Astaire|Ginger Rogers
- Lunch Poems: Al Young
- Makin’ Whoopee: Peggy Lee & Toots Thielemans
- Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Parting Words
- Marvin Gaye: Sexual Healing
- Meditation
- Mercy, Mercy Me (The Ecology)
- Midnight at the Oasis
- Miles Davis and John Coltrane
- Miller’s Tale (from Rap Canterbury Tales)
- Muppets & Diz
- My Block (Teaching Kids Poetry, Savanah, GA)
- Nam Myoho Renge Kyo
- Naomi Shihab Nye
- Nickole Brown reads from SISTER
- Nigel Kennedy (Winter: Vivaldi’s Four Seasons)
- No Room for Squares
- Orrin Keepnews Meets the Saxophone Colussus
- Otis Redding: I’ve Been Loving You
- Pablo Neruda: Poema 20 (en español)
- Paco de Lucia: Tango
- Persis Karim: Prose by Iranian Women of Exile and Immigration
- Pharoah Sanders: The Creator Has a Master Plan
- Pharoah Sanders: Thembi
- Political Science 101: Randy Newman
- Quarterlife Crisis: After College, What?
- Randy Newman: Sail Away
- Red Hen Press: Her History
- Rhyme Renaissance at Harvard (Baba Brinkman 2006)
- Robert Bly: A Gathering of Men
- Saint Monk (Orrin Keepnews)
- Screamin Jay Hawkins: I Put a Spell on You
- Slim Gaillard Trio : Laguna Moody (1946)
- Sly & the Family Stone (1970)
