{"id":23709,"date":"2018-01-26T10:34:21","date_gmt":"2018-01-26T18:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=23709"},"modified":"2018-01-26T10:34:21","modified_gmt":"2018-01-26T18:34:21","slug":"rachelle-escamillas-interview-with-me-on-out-of-our-minds-on-kkup-cupertino-san-jose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=23709","title":{"rendered":"Rachelle Escamilla&#8217;s Interview with Me On &#8220;Out of Our Minds&#8221; on KKUP Cupertino | San Jose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Richard Jeffrey Newman on KKUP by Rachelle Escamilla\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F385333910&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=960&#038;maxwidth=640\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I had the pleasure last week of spending an hour talking with Rachelle Escamilla, who interviewed me for her poetry radio show, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/player.fm\/series\/out-of-our-minds-on-kkup\/erica-goss-on-kkup\">Out of Our Minds<\/a>.&#8221; We talked about many things, including the politics of the canon, of race in the classroom, and the sexual politics of poetry readings, but I was, of course, most happy to talk about my two books of poetry,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/richardjnewman.com\/services\/the-silence-of-men\/\"><em>The Silence of Men<\/em><\/a> and, my newest book,\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/richardjnewman.com\/services\/words-for-what-those-men-have-done\/\">Words for What Those Men Have Done<\/a>.<\/em>\u00a0I got a chance to read &#8220;Gender Politics,&#8221; a poem I have only read out loud once or twice before, and the title poem, &#8220;For My Son, A Kind of Prayer.&#8221; I also read a couple of love poems from <em>The Silence of Men.\u00a0<\/em>I hope you&#8217;ll consider giving a listen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had the pleasure last week of spending an hour talking with Rachelle Escamilla, who interviewed me for her poetry radio show, &#8220;Out of Our Minds.&#8221; We talked about many things, including the politics of the canon, of race in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=23709\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23709"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23711,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23709\/revisions\/23711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}