Episodes

4 days ago
4 days ago
Host Hollay Ghadery welcomes Su Chang talking about her novel “The Immortal Woman” (House Of Anansi Press). Also on the show Tim Welsh talking about his book “Ley Lines” (Guernica Editions)

Wednesday Jun 25, 2025
Wednesday Jun 25, 2025
Valentino Assenza hosts the June Howl Open Mic featuring the work of all the beautiful people that submitted.

Wednesday Jun 25, 2025
Wednesday Jun 25, 2025
Host Hollay Ghadery Interviews poet Kyle Flemmer on his new book “Supergiants” (Walsak & Wynn). Hollay also talks with Linda Trinh on her memoir “Seeking Spirit: A Vietnamese (Non) Buddhist Memoir” (Guernica Editions)

Thursday Jun 12, 2025
Thursday Jun 12, 2025
Host Hollay Ghadery interviews poet Aisha Sasha John on her award winning book “Total” (Penguin Random House Canada). Hollay also talks to Donna Besel on her book “The Unraveling” (University Of Regina Press)

Wednesday Jun 04, 2025
Wednesday Jun 04, 2025
Valentino Assenza welcomes Pete Crighton to talk about his memoir “The Vinyl Diaries” (Penguin Random House Canada). Also on the show, Hollay Ghadery talks to poet Rebecca Salazar about their poetry book “Antibody” (Penguin Random House Canada).

Wednesday May 28, 2025
Wednesday May 28, 2025
Valentino Assenza hosts our May Howl Fundraiser Open Mic featuring the poets that donated to CIUT 89.5 FM and submitted their work. We had a really wonderful response to the campaign. Would like to extend a fund, thank you to the poets that will be featuring during the hour tomorrow.
Lennart Lundh
Eleni Gouliaras
Lily S. May
Pat Connors
Allison Bothley
Don Stabler
Peter Taylor
Pema Hou
Irina Moga
Stephanie Goodhue
Gordon McLaughlin
Paul Poirier

Wednesday May 21, 2025
Wednesday May 21, 2025
Host Hollay Ghadery welcomes poet Tolu Oloruntoba talking about his Griffin Poetry Prize winning book “Unravel” (Penguin Random House Canada). Also on the show poet Chris Bailey talking about his book “Forecast: Pretty Bleak” (Penguin Random House Canada).

Wednesday May 14, 2025
Wednesday May 14, 2025
Host Valentino Assenza welcomes Omar El Akkad to talk about his latest book “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This” (Penguin Random House). Also on the show Marianne K. Miller talking about her debut novel “We Were The Bullfighters” (Dundurn Press)

Wednesday May 07, 2025
Wednesday May 07, 2025
Host Hollay Ghadery talks to Carolyne Van Der Meer about her poetry chapbook “Birdology” (Cactus Press) & Jason Pargin about his novel “I’m Starting To Worry About This Black Box Of Doom” (St. Martin’s Press)

Thursday May 01, 2025
Thursday May 01, 2025
We will indeed be playing the poetry of all the people that submitted their work but for this show i lefr some space to celebrate the memory of Elisha Elise Alladina who was a regular contributor to the open mics and who recently sadly passed away. I will be playing three of Elisha’s poems, and as Elisha and i always loved to talk about retro music, the outro song at the end of the show will be dedicated to her