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Woman Wattage

Host Anne Watts draws inspiration from listeners worldwide, dropping the needle on music that marks the sonic brilliance of humanity, from Sun Ra to Adrienne Lenker, from Alice Coltrane and Cate Le Bon to Igor Stravinsky, Neil Young, and esperanza spalding.

  • Poetry read by Naomi Shihab Nye; music by Oscar Peterson, Bad Bunny, Vijay Iyer, Linda May Han Oh, Tyshawn Sorey, Heinrich Schütz, and more.
  • Poetry by Naomi Shihab Nye; music by Lomelda; Madeleine Peyroux; The Young Disciples; Fleetwood Mac; John Cale and Charli XCX; Aldous Harding; and more.
  • Haiku by Alexis Rottela; music by Ben Harper, Ornette Coleman, Tara Clerkin Trio, Tim Atlas, Paul Robeson, Tori Amos, The Beta Band, Joe Henry, and more.
  • Poetry by Hafez; music by Debussy; The Byrds; Citizen Cope; Miles Davis; Johnny Cash; Dionne Warwick; Cat Power; and more.
  • Poetry by Robert Duncan; music by The Clash, Lili Boulanger, Jimi Hendrix, Judee Sill, Bill Evans, Ebo Taylor, and more.
  • Music by The Grateful Dead; Phil Cohran; Jon Batiste; Telesma; Max Richter and Antonio Vivaldi; Dick Gaughan and Emmylou Harris; Funkadelic; Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan; and more. Poetry by Derrick Austin.
  • Poetry by A.R. Ammonds; music by Max Richter, Antonio Vivaldi, Gyorgy and Marta Kurtag, Joni Mitchell, Big Thief, The Cocteau Twins, and more.
  • Insights from Dance Medicine practitioner, activist, and actor (The Wire, Homicide, Clara's Heart) Maria Broom; music by WAR, Mandrill, Seals &Crofts, James Brown, and more.
  • Insights from Dance Medicine practitioner, activist, and actor (The Wire, Homicide, Clara's Heart) Maria Broom; music by Leonard Bernstein, Harry Belafonte and Miriam Makeba, Ethel Ennis, and more.
  • Music by Van Morrison, Carlo Gesualdo, The Pretenders, Caution, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, and more. Poetry by Mary Oliver.