I’m happy to let my blog be the home of Lois P. Jones’s interviews on Poets Cafe.  The show airs every 2nd and 4th Wednesday at 8:30pm on KPFK (90.7 FM Los Angeles, 98.7 FM Santa Barbara). Jaimes Palacio and Myrenna Ogbu also host the show, but at this point I’m only archiving Jones’s shows.

Shows by Poet Interviewed:

• Neil Aitken
• Marcia Cohee
• Chris Crittenden
• Cyrano (Troy Kotsur, Paul Raci, Stephen Sachs)
• Peggy Dobreer
• John FitzGerald
• Timothy Green
• John Guzlowski
• Homeboy Poets
• Deborah P. Kolodji
• Peter Ludwin
• Mira Mataric
• Neil McCarthy
• William O’Daly
• Dean Pasch
• Alice Pero
• Annie Reiner
• Susan Rogers
• Russell Salamon
• Taoli-Ambika Talwar
• Maja Trochimczyk
• Neil deGrasse Tyson
• J. Michael Walker
• Hilda Weiss
• Kath Abela Wilson
• Mariano Zaro

Lois P. Jones is host of “Poet’s Café” (KPFK,  Los Angeles 90.7 fm), and co-produces the Moonday poetry reading series in Pacific Palisades, California with Alice Pero. She is the Poetry Editor of Kyoto Journal and a four-time Pushcart nominee.  She has work published in Narrative Magazine, American Poetry Journal, The Nassau Review, Qarrtsiluni, Sierra Nevada Review, Askew, Raven Chronicles, and Antioch University’s Lunch Ticket as well as Destinations, the number one jazz CD in the U.S. (Tamir Hendelman, 2010) and other journals in the U.S. and abroad.  Several of her photographs have been published in national journals.   Lois’s poems have won honors under judges Kwame Dawes, Fiona Sampson and others.  New Yorker staff writer, Dana Goodyear selected “Ouija” as Poem of the Year in the 2010 competition sponsored by Web Del Sol.  She is the winner of the 2012 Tiferet Poetry Prize and is featured in The Tiferet Talk Interviews, which includes interviews with Robert Pinsky, Ed Hirsch, Julia Cameron and others 2013.

We come to painting, to poetry, to the stage, hoping to revive the soul. And any artist whose work touches us earns our gratitude.  - Lewis Hyde, The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World.