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Martha Cinader
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We are the Network. We create, communicate, reach out to each other in the street, across oceans, and, in our communal dreams. We are nurturing archetypes, together, and they are growing and changing as we all reach for something better.…

https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/12/28/from-me-to-you-2025/
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December 28, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Happy Holidays Remix Volume 8 features the collaborations of Martha Cinader and Hernan Romiro (Jay) Rodriguez Sierra, reflections on the past year, and announcements about the new parent non-profit of L&BH Network, Sound System Culture, upcoming…

https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/12/25/s3e37/
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December 25, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Our Season 2 begins in January, 2026. Please enjoy this rewind during our production break. Nilsa Rivera, in Florida, brings her professional and personal experience of home insecurity to a…

https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/12/20/beyond-borders-rewind-episode-10-talking-about-home-insecurity/
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December 20, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Please enjoy this rewind during our holiday production break. Remix Volume 6 by Jay Rodriguez Sierra features Q.R. Hand jr., Martha Cinader, Genny Lim, Meredith Leigh, Donna Janell Bowman, Dorsía Smith Silva, Mary Oishi, Kellie Richardson,…

https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/12/18/s3e35-rewind/
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December 18, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Remix Volume 7 features Barbara Tran, Candelario Obeso, Eileen Tabios, Vi Khi Nao, Freda Epum, Martha Cinader, Hazel Smith, Megan Marshall, Monica Maconsantos, Mary Oishi, Vida Cruz Borja, Tony Robles, Olivia Eggena, Joseph Jason Santiago Lacour,…

https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/12/11/s3e36/
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December 11, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Martha Cinader, Judy Talaugon and Jay Rodriguez Sierra are joined by darkroom masters Russell Frederick, Anderson Zaca and Ozier Muhammad to talk about Season One of the Darkroom MCs, the making of it, and the photographers who are featured.
Beyond Borders – Rewind – Episode 6 – with Special Guests Russell Frederick, Anderson Zaca and Ozier Muhammad
Martha Cinader, Judy Talaugon and Jay Rodriguez Sierra are joined by darkroom masters Russell Frederick, Anderson Zaca and Ozier Muhammad to talk about Season One of the Darkroom MCs, the making of it, and the photographers who are featured.
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December 6, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Remix Volume 6 by Jay Rodriguez Sierra features Q.R. Hand jr., Martha Cinader, Genny Lim, Meredith Leigh, Donna Janell Bowman, Dorsía Smith Silva, Mary Oishi, Kellie Richardson, Eileen Tabios, Ozier Muhammad, Tony Robles, Megan Marshall, Kim McMillon…

https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/12/04/s3e35/
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December 4, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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This week we take the opportunity to revisit this illuminating conversation between Monica Maconsantos and Tony Robles, originally aired on June 26, 2025.

Our featured guest is essayist, Monica Macansantos, author of Returning to My Father's…

https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/11/27/s3e19-rewind/
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November 27, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Martha Cinader, Judy Talaugon and Jay Rodriguez Sierra are joined by Arnoldo García, community-based poet, musician, visual artist, human rights organizer and dedicated restorative justice…

https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/11/22/beyond-borders-rewind-episode-4-with-special-guest-arnoldo-garcia/
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November 22, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Remix Volume 5: featuring our guests from Seasons 3 reading their poetry and stories. Deepika Singh, C.L. Willis, Billy Mills, Brett Cook, Andrew Lam, Zora Neale Hurston, Alejandro Murgía, Jonathan Thirkield, Dorsía Smith Silva, Suzette Clarke…

https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/11/20/s3e34/
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November 20, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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This week we take the opportunity to revisit this illuminating conversation between Brian Kimmel and Martha Cinader, originally aired on February 13, 2025. Martha talks with Brian Kimmel about Blue Skies, Troubled Waters, a World War II account…

https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/11/13/s3e4-rewind/
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November 13, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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We are taking the opportunity during the holiday months to highlight some of our favorite episodes from the first season of Beyond Borders, while we work on Season 2 just for…

https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/11/08/beyond-borders-rewind-episode-3-with-award-winning-photojournalist-ozier-muhammad/
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November 8, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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This week we take the opportunity to revisit this illuminating conversation between Tony Robles and Vida Cruz Borja, which originally aired on May 1, 2025.

Tony Robles welcomes Vida Cruz-Borja to talk about Philippine speculative fiction, the…

https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/11/06/s3e13-rewind/
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November 6, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Tony Robles speaks with participants in the Cork International Short Story Festival, part 2. We listen to an Irish poem and fairytale. Jay Rodriguez Sierra plays with Chucho Valdez in a rare live recording. New poetry from Martha Cinader.

https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/10/30/s3e33/
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October 30, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Laura Cassidy is publisher and co-editor at the literary journal and small press Banshee, where along with her co-founders she was named a Bookseller Rising Star. Her novels for young adults were published by Penguin Ireland,…

https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/10/29/laura-cassidy-writer-publisher/
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October 29, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Mahreen Sohail was born in Pakistan. She has an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College where she studied as a Fulbright scholar; and was a Writing Fellow at A Public Space and a Charles Pick Fellow at the University of East Anglia. Her work…

https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/10/29/mahreen-sohail-writer/
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October 29, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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Laura Jean McKay is the author of The Animals in That Country – winner of the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Victorian Prize for Literature, the ABIA Small Publishers Adult Book of the Year and co-winner of the Aurealis…

https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/10/29/laura-jean-mckay-writer/
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October 29, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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Mary O’Donnell has written award-winning poetry, novels, short fiction collections and dynamic essays. Published fiction includes the novels The Elysium Testament and Where They Lie. In 2023 she received an An Post/Irish Book Award for…

https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/10/29/mary-odonnell-writer/
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October 29, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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Patrick Cotter is an Irish poet, born in Cork City where he still lives and works as a literary festival organiser and editor. His poems have been published in journals such as the Financial Times, The London Review of Books, Poetry and…

https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/10/29/patrick-cotter-poet/
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October 29, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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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/
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October 28, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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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/
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October 28, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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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/
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October 28, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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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/
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October 25, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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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/
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October 24, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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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/
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October 24, 2025 at 8:40 PM