Kathya Alexander – Keep A’Livin’

July 8, 2026

This week we’re sharing the first chapter of Kathya Alexander‘s audiobook of Keep A’Livin’, produced through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program. This speculative fiction novel “explores the reality of activism as more than just a handful of speeches given at protests, the costs to those who dedicate themselves to activist work, and the passion […]

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Topographies – Gabriella Garcia

July 1, 2026

Gabriella Garcia‘s project for the 2026 Jack Straw Writers Program is a series of poems, each overlaid on maps of rivers and mountains where the poems take place. In her conversation with curator Claudia Castro Luna, they talk about the story of her  opera A Spring Like This, her interest in writing from non-human perspectives, […]

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KTNA – Keep It to Your Soul

June 24, 2026

This week’s selection is “Keep It to Your Soul,” from the soundtrack to KTNA’s Jack Straw New Media Gallery installation The Kelp Forest. The Kelp Forest opens this Friday, June 26th at 7pm!

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