Podcast appearances and mentions of barbara jane reyes

Recorded by Barbara Jane Reyes for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on April 22, 2025. www.poets.org

Best of Spiritual Grit “We don't know what we don't know so be open to possibilities”-Leslieann Hobayan For today's episode, I invite you to be open to possibilities. Back in the day, I worked (temporarily) at a corporate law firm in Manhattan. We all make assumptions what that was like. What I discovered was that it was possible to be creative, thrive, and enjoy that space. These days, what's coming forward for me now is tarot. I didn't expect it to become such a big presence in my life and in what I do to connect people with their divine knowing. (Of course, now that I say it out loud, it makes sense!) We don't know what we don't know. We don't know what possibilities lie beyond our bubble of what we do know.. Ask yourself what you want right now and tune in to that. Learn and discern between your ego voice and your heart's desire by how your body feels. What if this day turned into everything you hoped for and more? Here's a challenge: begin the day with a sense of possibility, with a beginner's mind. Approach this day as if you were trying something new: be open, be flexible and be ready for anything. Now go play and step into the mystery! Take a listen as I invite you to have fun. Think about what you can create in your life to have more fun and play for yourself. * Follow me on Instagram for Maverick Mondays, Free Verse Fridays, and some real talk about healing, poetry, AND play: @leslieannhobayan or email me at leslieann@suryagian.com * Today's poems/ Books / Oracle / Tarot Reading mentioned: Tarot Card: The Dragonfly “Track Black Wing Bird Emm Gryner 2006” From the book “Letters To Young Brown Girl” by Barbara Jane Reyes

Today's poem is Lament by Barbara Jane Reyes.

“We don't know what we don't know so be open to possibilities”-Leslieann Hobayan For today's episode, I invite you to be open to possibilities. Back in the day, I worked (temporarily) at a corporate law firm in Manhattan. We all make assumptions what that was like. What I discovered was that it was possible to be creative, thrive, and enjoy that space. These days, what's coming forward for me now is tarot. I didn't expect it to become such a big presence in my life and in what I do to connect people with their divine knowing. (Of course, now that I say it out loud, it makes sense!) We don't know what we don't know. We don't know what possibilities lie beyond our bubble of what we do know.. Ask yourself what you want right now and tune in to that. Learn and discern between your ego voice and your heart's desire by how your body feels. What if this day turned into everything you hoped for and more? Here's a challenge: begin the day with a sense of possibility, with a beginner's mind. Approach this day as if you were trying something new: be open, be flexible and be ready for anything. Now go play and step into the mystery! Take a listen as I invite you to have fun. Think about what you can create in your life to have more fun and play for yourself. * Follow me on Instagram for Maverick Mondays, Free Verse Fridays, and some real talk about healing, poetry, AND play: @leslieannhobayan or email me at leslieann@suryagian.com * Sign up for Joyful Meditation, a 5-part introductory series to meditation. Each recorded class is just a half-hour. Five classes to create self-awareness and inner peace-- for just $11.11! Today's poems/ Books / Oracle / Tarot Reading mentioned: Tarot Card: The Dragonfly “Track Black Wing Bird Emm Gryner 2006” From the book “Letters To Young Brown Girl” by Barbara Jane Reyes

  Cookie Hiponia — author, poet, and former lead editor of Destiny 2 and Mass Effect — joins to discuss the social simulation games Stardew Valley & Animal Crossing through the lens of poems about making and giving. Barbara Jane Reyes, "Track: 'Dahil Sa Iyo,' Pinay (1998)" Pablo Neruda, "Ode to My Socks" Cookie Hiponia We Belong at Penguin Random House Third Place Books and Elliot Bay Book Company Music copyright by James Chandler Jr.  

Recorded on Sunday, August 29, 2021. Scripture cited: Genesis 1:1-27; Luke 24:36-48; 1 Corinthians 15:35-44.Support the show (https://www.eservicepayments.com/cgi-bin/Vanco_ver3.vps?appver3=wWsk24ZWJSTZKsGd1RMKlg0BDvsSG3VIWQCPJNNxD8upkiY7JlDavDsozUE7KG0nFx2NSo8LdUKGuGuF396vbSw-R2mhrvfe_HJOXvFcrh-XHubq5Z7ap5JVmPErc4ZeYHCKCZhESjGNQmZ5B-6dx0MW8b85t8s_s5fNKictIkY=&ver=3)

Recorded by Barbara Jane Reyes for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on August 27, 2021. www.poets.org

Day one of two: a weekend of events celebrating the 20-volume milestone of the City Lights Spotlight Series. Hosted by Garrett Caples (Series Editor). With readings by Norma Cole, Anselm Berrigan, Micah Ballard, Cathy Wagner, Eric Baus, Julien Poirier, David Brazil, Barbara Jane Reyes, Carmen Gimenez Smith, and Uche Nduka. In September 2020, City Lights is publishing the next two volumes in the Spotlight Poetry Series: No. 19, 'Facing You' by acclaimed Nigerian-American poet Uche Nduka, and No. 20, 'Natch,' the debut collection of Bay Area queer poet Sophia Dahlin.

People tend to come to poetry when they're at their lowest points, but it's possible for poetry to become more than that. // Poetry is always a perfect place to notice the highs and lows more acutely rather than just moving through grief, loss, and deprivation unconsciously. // Art happens in our lives as a way of being in ourselves. Everyone's feeling that they're in darkness and struggling so they end up returning to poetry to look for the light. // Let go and trust. You have to acknowledge that there is something supernatural or something unseen that is more powerful than us. // Our right to pass through this place, this planet has everything to do with how properly we are regarding and treating these spaces well. // The importance of awareness of being in a relationship with nature, with the Land and being in a relationship with the things that are unseen that instead of dominating one over the other, it's about being in collaboration with them.In considering Barbara Jane's new poetry collection, how do we frame our experiences as active resistance? How can poetry mirror what is happening so that we can find another way to witness it? // Consider the roles of our elders and our ancestors and our relationships with them when thinking about how we are being in the world. // We also talk a bit about superstitions, ghosts, and our ancestral inheritance. // Today's poems: “Unanimous” by Hafiz , "Acquainted with lightning" by Marjorie Evasco

In this episode, I explore a few questions that come up for those of us on a healing jounery. Are we being our true selves or are we playing roles that people expect us to take on? Who are we? Who are we really? And who are we being? Why is it important to we heal our traumas? And how can we do this when talk therapy doesn't quite complete the job? // Meditation isn't always the answer. (gasp! Don't worry, Ani Pema said it, so it's okay! Haha!) // Can you create warmth for yourself? Can you be gentle with yourself? // Get to the root of the things holding you back, the things no longer serving you. // Today's poems: Hafiz's “Two Bears” and Barbara Jane Reyes's “Track: ‘My Life,' Mary J. Blige (1994).” // Join me on IG Live Tues 9/22-Thurs 9/24 for a free 3-day pop-up training on healing from the inside out. This will culminate into a free workshop on Saturday, 9/26, where you'll get to learn about my new course offering, Heal to Power. Follow me on IG @suryagianyogi Visit my website to register and get more info: https://suryagian.com/heal-to-power-interest -list Your best life starts now!

Letters to a Young Brown Girl by Barbara Jane Reyes by Poets & Writers

Happy August, everyone! We have another addition to the Pilipinx-American Stories Podcast: Narrative Series For this week's guest, we have writer and educator Barbara Jane Reyes, representing the Bay Area. In this episode, we talked about how Barbara got her start as a writer, and what it means, to her, to be original. We also discuss the concept of Pinay Liminality, and what it means in the context of her own writing. Barbara also has a new book entitled, "Letters to a Young Brown Girl" dropping September 2020, and we talk a bit about the process of putting it together. Shout out to Barbara for getting down to share some insight in this week's episode! "Letters to a Young Brown Girl" coming out September 2020. Make sure to get yourself a copy in the link below: https://bookshop.org/books/letters-to-a-young-brown-girl/9781950774173?aid=356 Make sure to also give Barbara a follow on IG, and make sure to check out her other works in the links below IG: @bjanepr https://barbarajanereyes.com/ https://barbarajanereyes.com/portfolio/letters-to-a-young-brown-girl/

Back in April, Litquake celebrated National Poetry Month by hosting a group of esteemed poets at one of San Francisco’s famous landmarks. This event was hosted by D.A. Powell, whose honors include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, and featured incredible poets like Robert Hass, former Poet Laureate of the United States and winner of a Pulitzer prize; Brenda Hillman, Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets; Henri Cole, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry; Barbara Jane Reyes; Paola Capo-Garcia; and Marcello Hernandez Castillo. Our newest Lit Cast Episode features readings from these fantastic poets on a very special occasion that brought the power of poetry into the historic walls of Grace Cathedral. Litquake's 20th anniversary festival will take place October 10-19, 2019. For all the latest updates, follow us @litquake on Facebook and Twitter! This event was recorded live at Grace Cathedral on April 13th, 2019.

Learn more about Filipina American poet, Barbara Jane Reyes' thoughts on her influences, creative process and how building a vibrant community among poets & writers is important for future Filipino American writers. http://www.barbarajanereyes.com/ http://yourartsygirlpodcast.com/episodes Barbara Jane Reyes is the author of Invocation to Daughters (City Lights Publishers, 2017). She was born in Manila, Philippines, raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, and is the author of four previous collections of poetry, Gravities of Center (Arkipelago Books, 2003), Poeta en San Francisco (Tinfish Press, 2005), which received the James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets, Diwata (BOA Editions, Ltd., 2010), which received the Global Filipino Literary Award for Poetry, and To Love as Aswang (Philippine American Writers and Artists, Inc., 2015). She is also the author of the chapbooks Easter Sunday (Ypolita Press, 2008) Cherry (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, 2008), and For the City that Nearly Broke Me (Aztlán Libre Press, 2012). Her sixth book, Letters to a Young Brown Girl, is forthcoming from BOA Editions, Ltd. in 2020. Her work is published or forthcoming in Arroyo Literary Review, Asian Pacific American Journal, As/Us, Boxcar Poetry Review, The Brooklyn Rail, Chain, Eleven Eleven, Entropy, Fairy Tale Review, Fourteen Hills, Hambone, Kartika Review, Lantern Review, New American Writing, New England Review, North American Review, Notre Dame Review, Origins Journal, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, South Dakota Review, Southern Humanities Review, TAYO Literary Magazine, xcp: Cross Cultural Poetics, among others. An Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow, she received her B.A. in Ethnic Studies at U.C. Berkeley and her M.F.A. at San Francisco State University. She is an adjunct professor at University of San Francisco’s Yuchengco Philippine Studies Program. She has also taught at San Francisco State University and Mills College. She lives with her husband, poet Oscar Bermeo, in Oakland. [For a complete list of publications, please click here.]

Tara Dorabji and shivani narang feature Asian and Asian American filmmakers. APEX Express interviews directors from the 15th annual 3rd i South Asian Film Festival. In addition hear from independent filmmaker, Iffat Fatima, about her recent documentary: Blood Leaves its Trail, which explores issues of violence and memory in Kashmir. We'll also be in conversation with scholar and Kashmiri human rights activist, Huma Dar to discuss how she's been targeted by Twitter and Facebook for exposing human rights violations in Kashmir. Listen here. Community Calendar US Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy K Smith will be reading at CCA on November 3. That's tomorrow. CCA calendar online for more info. Open Mic & Writing Workshop- Afro-House Berkeley, Date: Nov 10th – Poetry writing session will be led by CalSLAM from 4pm-6pm. The writing workshop will draw from the theme of reclamation of blackness and spaces, everyone is welcome to the open mic portion! palestinian youth movement – Building Solidarity against Militarization. Thursday, November 16 at 7 PM – 8:30 PM / East Side Arts Alliance: A Panel on Political Prisoners and Incarceration from Palestine, the US and the Philippines, with Sahar Francis of Addameer (the Palestinian Prisoner Support & Human Rights Association) Fall Events At Eastwind Books of Berkeley: November 18, Saturday 2pm – The Discovery of Ramen: The Asian Hall of Fame – Children's Story Hour with Oliver Chin November 19, Sunday 3pm – The Chinese Typewriter: A History Book Talk w Author Tom S. Mulley December 9, Saturday 3pm – Book talk featuring Barbara Jane Reyes, Janice Sapigao, and Veronica Montes (co-sponsored by {m}aganda magazine) The post APEX Express – November 2, 2017 appeared first on KPFA.

Two women who emigrated to the US from Asia and both became writers talk to guest presenter Lauren Schiller in San Francisco about their 'messy' relationship with language, their rejection of the American Dream, and how they're trying to break free from labels. Barbara Jane Reyes is a poet, whose work explores language, culture and identity. She was born in Manila in the Philippines, and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. She started writing seriously as a student - when there were very few writers who were voicing her own immigrant experience. She now teaches Philippine Studies at the University of San Francisco and is the author of four books of poetry. She is due to publish her fifth collection, Invocation to Daughters, later this year. Yiyun Li is an award-winning writer. She grew up in Beijing, and moved to the US when she was in her early 20s to study immunology. It was after she had arrived in Iowa and adopted English as her own language that she decided to make the leap from science to creative writing. She has published four works of fiction, and numerous essays. Her latest book is called 'Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life' and it was written while she grappled with depression and was finding solace in other writers. Yiyun teaches creative writing at UC Davis. Image: Barbara Jane Reyes (left) (credit: Oscar Bermeo) and Yiyun Li (right) (credit: Roger Turesson)

Yes! What better way to mark a length of distance than to revisit an early chapter. More specifically, a guest from an early chapter. In this episode we hear once again from award-winning poet, Barbara Jane Reyes! And guess what? A lot has changed since she first appeared on the program. In both of our professional lives and also in the landscape of artist-hustlers. In our talk, we cover a wide array of topics: * Some of the changes Barbara has witnessed in the movers and shakers of today * Being open and honest in managing failures and rejection * Locating and following a blueprint for success * When it comes to output, mass vs masterpiece * Focused multitasking vs haywire multitasking * Evoking a Buddhist experience * Ignoring the haters Thank you for subscribing!  Please rate the podcast and leave comments.  I look forward to building with you.  More information and tons of free tips on marketing and management at: ArtOfHustle.com.  

Photo of Barbara Jane Reyes from the Art of Hustle website Tonight we bring you the second edition of The Art of Hustle podcast produced by artist and entrepreneur Anthem Salgado. In this episode he talks with award-winning poet, Barbara Jane Reyes, who offers tips on how to make art AND make a living, how to get published, and if it's necessary to get an MFA. The post APEX Express – August 16, 2012 appeared first on KPFA.

The ART OF HUSTLE podcast series proudly presents award-winning poet, Barbara Jane Reyes. She is the author of Diwata (BOA Editions, Ltd., 2010), recently noted as a finalist for the California Book Award. She was born in Manila, Philippines, raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, and is the author of two previous collections of poetry, Gravities of Center (Arkipelago Books, 2003) and Poeta en San Francisco (Tinfish Press, 2005), which received the James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets. She is co-editor with her husband, poet Oscar Bermeo, of Doveglion Press, and an adjunct professor in Philippine Studies at University of San Francisco and in English at Mills College. (Note: The drums in the background were from a nearby festival and not a choice in creative production.) Thank you for subscribing! Please rate the podcast and leave comments. I look forward to building with you. More information and tons of free tips on marketing and management at: ArtOfHustle.com.