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Martha Cinader

Martha Cinader

@cinader.bsky.social

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Martha Cinader @cinader.bsky.social · 3h

In this masterful collection, Mary O'Donnell explores the subtle fractures and quiet transformations that shape modern life. Her characters navigate a society in flux, where traditional certainties give way to new complexities.

https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/10/28/mary-odonnell-walking-ghosts/

Martha Cinader @cinader.bsky.social · 3h

A family of cat farmers gets the chance to set the felines free. A group of chickens tells it like it is. A female-crewed ship ploughs through the patriarchy. A support group finds solace in a world without men.

With her…

https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/10/28/laura-jean-mckay-gunflower/

Martha Cinader @cinader.bsky.social · 3h

In twelve kaleidoscopic stories, Mahreen Sohail shifts our perspective on this question from moment to moment. Two girls observe a group of child soldiers and one reflects: “My sister and I were only small scale sinners.”…

https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/10/28/mahreen-sohail-small-scale-sinners/

Martha Cinader @cinader.bsky.social · 3d

Nilsa Rivera, in Florida, brings her professional and personal experience of home insecurity to a conversation with Judy Talaugon, in California, and Martha Cinader, in New York. The conversation…

https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/10/25/beyond-borders-episode-10-talking-about-home-insecurity/

Martha Cinader @cinader.bsky.social · 4d

Tribunal Rising commemorates the 1992 International Tribunal movement in the city of San Francisco to dismantle the legacy of Christopher Columbus and the Myth of Discovery. In 1990, "[a]t the…

https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/10/24/edited-by-judith-talaugon-and-angela-marino-tribunal-rising/

Martha Cinader @cinader.bsky.social · 4d

Showcasing a variety of voices shaped in and by a place that has been for them a crossroads and a land of contradictions, Home in Florida presents a selection of…

https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/10/24/edited-by-anjanette-delgado-home-in-florida-latinx-writers-and-the-literature-of-uprootedness/

Martha Cinader @cinader.bsky.social · 4d

Nilsa Rivera is a data analyst and essayist exploring the intersections of housing insecurity, environment, and public policy. She's currently working on her debut nonfiction book, Houselessness in Florida, forthcoming…

https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/10/24/nilsa-rivera-data-analyst-essayist/

Martha Cinader @cinader.bsky.social · 5d

Tony Robles speaks with writers, Mary Morrissy, Vanessa Onwuemezi and Gina Chung at The International Short Story Festival in Cork, Ireland. Martha Cinader speaks with artist, Brett Cook about Greg Tate Day in Harlem, New York. Jay Rodriguez Sierra…

https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/10/23/s3e32/

Martha Cinader @cinader.bsky.social · 6d

Brett Cook is an interdisciplinary artist and educator who uses storytelling to distill complex ideas and creative practices to transform outer and inner worlds of being.

His elaborate installations feature…

https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/10/22/brett-cook-interdisciplinary-artist-educator/

Martha Cinader @cinader.bsky.social · 6d

I’m an award-winning Irish novelist (The Hennessy Award, Lannan Foundation Award) and short story writer, the author of four novels, Mother of Pearl, The Pretender, The Rising of Bella Casey and Penelope Unbound, as well as three…

https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/10/22/mary-morrissy-writer/

Martha Cinader @cinader.bsky.social · 6d

Vanessa Onwuemezi is a writer living in London. She is the winner of The White Review Short Story Prize in 2019 and her work has appeared in literary and art magazines, including Granta, Frieze and Prototype. Dark Neighbourhood, her…

https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/10/22/vanessa-onwuemezi-writer/

Martha Cinader @cinader.bsky.social · 6d

Gina Chung is a Korean American writer from New Jersey currently living in New York City. She is the author of the novel Sea Change, which was longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and a B&N Discover Pick, and the…

https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/10/22/gina-chung-writer-editor/

Martha Cinader @cinader.bsky.social · 6d

Twenty-Twenty Vision is a collection of stories exploring the notion of hindsight, and the honesty and deceptions of late middle-aged regret . A composite portrait of a generation of women and men moving into the third age…

https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/10/21/mary-morrissy-twenty-twenty-vision/

Martha Cinader @cinader.bsky.social · 6d

Equal parts fantastical—a pair of talking dolls help twins escape a stifling home, a heart boils on the stove as part of an elaborate cure for melancholy, a fox demon contemplates avenging her sister’s death—and true to life—a mother…

https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/10/21/gina-chung-green-frog/

Martha Cinader @cinader.bsky.social · 6d

Vanessa Onwuemezi takes readers on a surreal and haunting journey through a landscape on the edge of time. At the border with another world, a line of people wait for the gates to open; on the floor of a lonely room, a…

https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/10/21/vanessa-onwuemezi-dark-neighbourhood/

Martha Cinader @cinader.bsky.social · 12d

Pyeng Threadgill talks with Martha Cinader about her new book and audiobook, Lost & Found, part memoir part guide to life as an artist. Jay Rodriguez Sierra presents new music, The Light Within You, featuring Jay on Bansuri flute, Joe Russo on drums…

https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/10/16/s3e31/

Martha Cinader @cinader.bsky.social · 12d

Growing up in the 1980s, in the heart of New York City's downtown music and art scene became fertile ground for seeds of creativity, doubt, and eventual empowerment for Pyeng Threadgill-as expressed through Lost & Found: Finding…

https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/10/15/pyeng-threadgill-lost-found/

Martha Cinader @cinader.bsky.social · 12d

Pyeng Threadgill is an American vocalist, composer, author, video artist, and voice and movement teacher. With a deep belief in the transformative power of music and…

https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/10/15/pyeng-threadgill-vocalist-composer-author-video-artist-and-voice-and-movement-teacher/

Martha Cinader @cinader.bsky.social · 17d

Marque Gilmore returns home from London and makes time to talk with longtime friend and colleague in the music business, Gail Ward, and Jay Rodriguez Sierra, about his musical path, the Black Rock Coalition, Burnt…

https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/10/11/beyond-borders-episode-9-a-musical-odyssey/

Martha Cinader @cinader.bsky.social · 19d

Bev Grant, speaks about her life as a songwriter, photographer and activist. We hear more of Charlie Rosario's experiences making record cover art, new music by Jay Rodriguez Sierra and some poetry by Henry Grimes.

https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/10/09/s3e30/

Martha Cinader @cinader.bsky.social · 20d

Bev Grant is a veteran social activist, feminist, labor singer/songwriter, "cultural worker" from Park Slope Brooklyn, where she has lived for over 40 years. She is the co-creator of a…

https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/10/08/bev-grant-social-activist-feminist-labor-singer-songwriter-photographer/

Martha Cinader @cinader.bsky.social · 20d

Driving beats, coursing rhythms, swaying skirts, and swaggering bandleaders playing deep into the sultry night: Latin music is a celebration of life and sensuality, and nowhere are these…

https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/10/07/pablo-yglesias-cocinando-fifty-years-of-latin-album-cover-art/

Martha Cinader @cinader.bsky.social · 20d

There is a fine line between self-emancipation and existential oblivion, as the life of Henry Grimes and the poems of SIGNS ALONG THE ROAD clearly illustrate. A master bassist who played with the likes of Sonny Rollins,…

https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/10/07/henry-grimes-signs-along-the-road/

Martha Cinader @cinader.bsky.social · 26d

Dao Strom, speaks about her work and shares from her latest offering; Tender Revolutions. Marque Gilmore returns to Brooklyn for two nights. He talks with our newest producer, Gail Ward, and Maestro Jay Rodriguez Sierra.

https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/10/02/s3e29/

Martha Cinader @cinader.bsky.social · 27d

Fifty years after the fall of Saigon, Dao Strom’s Tender Revolutions / Yellow Songs vibrates with the ramifications and ripples of Empire. A hybrid project comprised of writings, music, and visual ephemera, each of…

https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/10/01/dao-strom-tender-revolutions-yellow-songs/