Empower House Radio KXEP-LP

Sala Artisté w/ Sarah De La Rosa - Latino Collection and Resource Center

Sala Artisté w/ Meredith Doby- The Doseum

Know Your Rights!! w/ Becca Najera and Angelita Negron

Platica Y Poetics S3E3 W/ Amber Ortega

In honoring Women’s History Month, we engaged in a profound platica with poet Amber
Ortega, exploring the intersections of embodied writing, ancestral memory, and the healing
power of the natural world. The episode opened with a tribute to influential female poets,
including Gabriela Mistral, Sylvia Plath, Gloria Anzaldúa, Audre Lorde, Idea Vilariño, Rupi
Kaur, Laura Esquivel, Isabel Allende, Alejandra Pizarnik, and Natalie Diaz—with a reading of
Diaz's evocative poem "The First Water is the Body." Throughout the interview, Amber reflected
on the intimate relationship between the body, spirit, and the written word, describing her
approach to poetry as an embodied practice, where the physical sensations, ancestral memory,
and the natural world converge. She shared how this intimate connection emerged. The
emotional texture present in her work, especially in poems like Needed to Go Grocery Shopping,
and Nest, a poem that explores the temporal landscapes highlighting how the passage of time
shapes our experiences and identities. She shared that the concept of language is a living code,
paralleling the body’s interconnectedness to ancestry and belonging. Poetry itself functions as a
nest—sacred space to hold sensations, memory, and transformation. We explored the theme of
movement and belonging, speaking to the embodiment and fluidity that mirrors the ever-
evolving relationship between the self, the land, and the stories we inherit.

Empower Community Health w/ Elda Olvera - Cherise Rohr-Allegrini

Empower Community Health w/ Elda Olvera - Michael Mitchell

Empower Community Health w/ Elda Olvera Girl With Grit

Empower Community Health w/ Elda Olvera Girls INC

Empower Community Health w/ Elda Olvera AVANCE

Platica Y Poetics S3E2 w/ Autumn Brooke Crane

In this interview, Autumn Crane delved into the emotional landscapes explored in Dead People’s
Clothes, a self-published poetry collection that intimately navigates love, grief, and acceptance.
Autumn reflects on the personal catalyst behind the collection and how writing became a vessel
for processing loss. Our platica highlighted the symbolic weight of clothing in grief and memory,
as well as the blurred boundaries between personal vulnerability and universal experiences of
mourning. Through our discussion on the role of sensory detail—smell, touch, sound, and
taste—Autumn unpacked how these elements enrich the emotional depth of their storytelling.
Nature emerged as a recurring motif in her collection, with imagery of vultures, cemeteries,
offering reflections on mortality and healing. Our sit down explored the complexities of familial
love and pain, the intentional use of fragmented poetic structures mirroring the disjointed nature
of grief, and the profound influence of music on her writing process. Songs like “Dublin Blues”
by Guy Clark and “Supermarket Flowers” by Ed Sheeran become emotional touchstones within
her work. Her poetry confronts grief and themes of loss, with intentional play and reverence.
Welcoming all the senses to be present when walking on the path of acceptance and healing.