Dr. Andy's Poetry and Technology Hour

The 1/28/2026 edition of Dr. Andy's Poetry and Technology Hour Dr. Mahnaz Badihian is an Is a Poet, painter, and translator whose work has been published in several languages worldwide. Mahnaz runs the Literary magazine MahMag.org to bring the world’s poetry together. She finished translating a book about the uprising in Iran in 2009 called Spalding Arise with Jack Hirschman, published in San Francisco in 2014. She received her MFA in poetry from Pacific University. Her latest poetry co...

The 1/14/2026 edition of Dr. Andy's Poetry and Technology Hour Gabrielle Myers has earned a B.A. from Hampshire College in Massachusetts, an A.O.S. in Culinary Arts from the California Culinary Academy in San Francisco, an M.A. in English from the University of California at Davis, and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Saint Mary’s College of California. She has taught English courses at Saint Mary’s College, UC Davis, Diablo Valley College, Yuba College, Las Positas College, and Sacramento ...

The 12/17/2025 edition of Dr. Andy's Poetry and Technology Hour Professor Gail Finney received her A. B. degree in German summa cum laude from Princeton University and her Ph.D. in comparative literature from UC Berkeley. She has also studied in Freiburg, Aix-en-Provençe, Tübingen, and Berlin. From 1980-1988 she taught at Harvard University as an Assistant and then Associate Professor of German. She returned to Harvard as a Visiting Professor of German in Spring 1997. Since 1988 she has ...

The 12/3/2025 edition of Dr. Andy's Poetry and Technology Hour The Video Game Orchestra at UC Davis was started by Ziad Asadi and Sogol Aliabadi in 2017, with the goal of allowing college musicians to explore the wonders of video game music. What started out as a small group of 9 musicians has now grown into a community of more than 100 members! All of their members are current students or alumni of UC Davis, and all of our pieces are arranged by their own members. Each quarter, they select a...

On the 10/24/25 edition of Dr. Andy’s Poetry and Technology Hour: Arturo Mantećon is the first guest of the program. He discusses his move to Alabama to join his grandchildren, and his translations of Leopoldo María Panero. Mantećon highlights Panero’s logical approach to poetry and his psychiatry, while emphasizing that Panero’s institutionalized status does not reflect work that is chaotic. He reads a Panero poem, “Palabora de lectura,” before sharing two of his own poems that aimed to be i...

On the 10/8/25 edition of Dr. Andy’s Poetry and Technology Hour: Peter Coyote joins the show to discuss Buddhism, Northern California, environmental activism, and his upcoming appearance at the Davis Jazz Beat festival. Coyote is the keynote speaker at the festival, which will take place on October 11th in Davis. It will be a multidisciplinary event, the first of its kind since the post-pandemic-era, that will have performers, art installations, and collaborations from the high school and col...

On the 9/24/25 edition of Dr. Andy’s Poetry and Technology Hour: Laura Rosenthal is the first guest of the program. Rosenthal states that her practice as a public attorney taught her how to better negotiate the tension between viscerality and beng understood as a poet. She then shares some exciting upcoming events that she is participating in and leading, including one by Calyx, the oldest feminist literary journal in the U.S. Calyx will be hosting “Reproductive Rites: Writing the Write to Ch...

On the 9/10/25 edition of Dr. Andy’s Poetry and Technology Hour: Dr.Andy is joined by two Ph.Ds who are speaking at the upcoming 2025 Summer Institute on Teaching and Technology. SITT 2025 features UC Davis faculty during two-half days of online presentations on the mornings of September 11th and 12th. The first guest on the program, Tricia Bertram Gallant, will be giving the lead-off talk at SITT 2025 on The Opposite of Cheating: Teaching for Integrity in the Age of AI (2025), which is also ...