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SAL/on air

Hosted by Seattle Arts & Lectures · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 54 episodes

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54
Last ep.
16 days ago
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70m
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30
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24
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48
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About this podcast

SAL/on air is a literary podcast featuring engaging author talks and readings from neary 40 years of Seattle Arts & Lectures programming. Seattle Arts & Lectures (SAL) is a literary nonprofit. Seattle Arts & Lectures cultivates transformative experiences through story and language with readers and writers of all generations. Get in-person or online tickets to SAL events at lectures.org.

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Seattle Arts & Lectures hosts SAL/on air, a arts show with 54 episodes published.

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Robin Wall Kimmerer

May 19, 20261h 13m0

In our hectically paced media landscape, the tale of Robin Wall Kimmerer and her beloved book Braiding Sweetgrass is a story of human miracle. First published in 2013, Braiding Sweetgrass joined the best seller list in 2

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M. Gessen

Mar 10, 20261h 20m0

Sound bites obfuscate intent. Click bait headlines twist the truth. Deep fake videos destroy shared reality. And that makes critical thinkers and clear-eyed observers like M. Gessen all the more needed. Gessen does not t

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Li-Young Lee

Dec 16, 20251h 3m0

It is easy to dismiss poetry as being disconnected from the human, the everyday, the useful; to deride it for being uppity, dense, or purposefully confusing. What is difficult is encountering the kind of poetry that make

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Youth Poet Laureate: Janae Lu

Jul 28, 202545m0

In this episode of SAL/on air we were joined in the studio by Janae Lu and Zackary Mickelson for a conversation about Janae’s experience as the 2024-25 Seattle Youth Poet Laureate, and discussion of her chapbook publishe

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Hinton Cast: Reagan E J Jackson, Still True: The Evolution of an Unexpected Journalist

Jul 18, 202543m0

SAL is pleased to support our friends at Hinton Publishing with the premiere episode of their brand-new podcast, Hinton Cast! Hinton Publishing prioritizes amplifying the voices of underinvited communities in the Pacific

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Naomi Shihab Nye

May 23, 20251h 14m0

What makes a poet’s voice timeless? For more than 40 years, Naomi Shihab Nye has been writing poems, novels, and stories; teaching workshops to adults, children, and incarcerated individuals. Every piece of her work cher

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Ed Yong

May 6, 20251h 14m0

Ed Yong’s bestselling first book, "I Contain Multitudes," prompted us to look at ourselves and the microbes we contain as the interconnected, interdependent systems that we are. And his follow-up, "An Immense World," was

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Julian Aguon

Apr 8, 20251h 3m0

As an Indigenous human rights lawyer and writer from Guam, Julian Aguon’s book 'No Country for Eight Spot Butterflies' memorizes grief from family to country and into one of the most difficult, intangible feelings of our

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Patrick Radden Keefe

Dec 10, 20241h 20m0

As a reporter, Patrick Radden Keefe holds two disparate truths together with unparalleled skill: there are facts, and there is a story. In his work as a staff writer at The New Yorker, Keefe has showcased this talent in

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Charles Yu

Nov 24, 20241h 17m0

At the beginning of the pandemic Charles Yu wrote an essay on the experience, which many noted, had a cinematic slant to it. “Five hundred years ago,” Yu wrote, “What we really mean when we say that this pandemic feels “

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Chris Abani

Nov 9, 20241h 28m0

As Chris Abani once stated, “The art is never about what you write about. The art is about how you write about what you write about.” Here, we find Abani’s "how" thick with feeling, braided by nimble and swift metaphors,

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Nikky Finney

Oct 9, 20241h 19m0

Nikky Finney is not only a poet but a storyteller, the kind of voice that weaves through the air in a room until every person there feels that much closer together. Her poems travel the world, from her home in South Caro

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Youth Poet Laureate: Mateo Acuña

May 21, 202445m0

In this episode of SAL/on air, two poets from SAL's Youth Poetry Fellowship, Mateo Acuña and Aamina Mughal, talk about access to arts education, finding community in Seattle's literary scene, and about Mateo's forthcomin

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James Tate

Apr 11, 202456m0

For James Tate, comedy and tragedy are inextricably linked within poetry. They appear as dual facets of ordinary life—the mundane and the extraordinary as one. As you’ll hear in this recording from February 2003, this is

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Barbara Kingsolver

Mar 8, 20241h 27m0

The works of Barbara Kingsolver have shaped a generation of readers. From her first novel The Bean Trees and beyond, Kingsolver’s characters speak to us, cradle our faces in their hands and exchange their hearts for ours

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Dean Young

Feb 12, 202459m0

When Dean Young took the stage in October of 2012 to read from his Copper Canyon Press collection, Bender, we were incredibly fortunate to bear witness to his humorous, irreverent, and fearless poetry. We were deeply sad

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Sandra Cisneros

Jan 4, 20241h 9m0

In October of 2003, Sandra Cisneros joined us for an evening 20 years after the publication of her luminous work The House on Mango Street. Now, we have the chance to listen again with reverence, 40 years after that semi

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Malcom Gladwell

Jun 1, 20231h 33m0

In September 2019, Malcolm Gladwell stepped on stage at Benaroya Hall as part of SAL’s Literary Arts Series to discuss his book Talking to Strangers. That night, his talk brought us into the complicated layers that under

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Amor Towles

May 9, 20231h 23m0

In A Gentleman in Moscow, the subject of Amor Towles' 2019 SAL lecture, the ever-charming Count Rostov says, “By their very nature, human beings are so capricious, so complex, so delightfully contradictory, that they des

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Richard Powers

Jan 21, 20221h 10m0

Richard Powers’ characters are often both artists and scientists—disciplines he sees as intertwined. In a delicious moment in this March 2008 reading, he describes the commonality between art and science as a state of “b

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To pitch SAL/on air, visit http://www.lectures.org for contact information, then craft a tight one-paragraph hook that ties your expertise to a gap in their recent arts coverage.

Who is the host of SAL/on air?

SAL/on air is hosted by Seattle Arts & Lectures. The show is categorised under arts and has published 54 episodes.

How many episodes does SAL/on air have?

SAL/on air has published 54 episodes.

What topics does SAL/on air cover?

SAL/on air regularly covers arts. It sits in the arts category.

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Is SAL/on air currently accepting guest pitches?

SAL/on air hasn't explicitly signalled guest openness in recent episodes. That doesn't rule out pitching. your hook just needs to be especially compelling and relevant to their recent content.

How long are SAL/on air episodes?

Episodes of SAL/on air average 70 minutes, giving guests a long-form format with plenty of time to expand on their expertise.

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