Welcome to Radio Aurora, my new venture in sound.
Radio Aurora is the home of my eco-justice podcast, Letters from Earth, as well as recordings of poetry and commentaries on many other issues. Current episodes include an introduction to the series, and pieces about New England agriculture, the "mother of all bombs" dropped on Afghanistan, feminist ornithology and solidarity with bees in "Birds and Bees" as well as my popular poem "V'ahavta" and "Questions for the Media" written after last year's terrorist bombings in Paris and Beirut were covered in extremely different ways.
I'm also working on a series about radio itself, from my own radio life, to the role of radio in social justice movements, and some of the history of Latinx radio. Daniel Chamorro, a pioneer of Puerto Rican radio in San Francisco in the early 1950s, had to "beg, borrow and steal" to get fifteen minutes of airtime from a "sundown" station that only broadcast by day, so he could inform the Calirican community about the lives of its members as well as news from home.
It's a different era now. Podcasting lets anyone with internet access and a microphone set up their own broadcast station. This is mine. Radio Aurora .
Radio Aurora is the home of my eco-justice podcast, Letters from Earth, as well as recordings of poetry and commentaries on many other issues. Current episodes include an introduction to the series, and pieces about New England agriculture, the "mother of all bombs" dropped on Afghanistan, feminist ornithology and solidarity with bees in "Birds and Bees" as well as my popular poem "V'ahavta" and "Questions for the Media" written after last year's terrorist bombings in Paris and Beirut were covered in extremely different ways.
I'm also working on a series about radio itself, from my own radio life, to the role of radio in social justice movements, and some of the history of Latinx radio. Daniel Chamorro, a pioneer of Puerto Rican radio in San Francisco in the early 1950s, had to "beg, borrow and steal" to get fifteen minutes of airtime from a "sundown" station that only broadcast by day, so he could inform the Calirican community about the lives of its members as well as news from home.
It's a different era now. Podcasting lets anyone with internet access and a microphone set up their own broadcast station. This is mine. Radio Aurora .