Quintessential Poetry

Quintessential Poetry Spotlight Tribute: Genevieve F. Ray (1987-2026)

Sun, 22 Feb 2026 15:01:33 GMT

We dedicate this rebroadcast to the loving memory of British poet and spoken word artist Geneviève F. Ray (1987–2026).

This conversation is one of the brightest moments ever captured on Quintessential Poetry. Recorded on a Saturday morning across continents (January 23, 2023), this interview reveals Genevieve at her most luminous—honest, funny, vulnerable, brilliant, and fully herself.

In this episode, Genevieve speaks about

poetry as a living companion
neurodiversity and self‑understanding
ancestry, identity, and belonging
mental health and survival
her one‑woman show Free Roaming Adult Woman
the courage it takes to tell the truth

Her voice—her laughter, her pauses, her fire—remains a gift. This interview stands as a portrait of who she was when the world wasn’t watching, only listening.

About Genevieve Ray: Genevieve was a poet, performer, educator, and community builder whose work uplifted countless voices. Her debut poetry collection, Free Roaming Adult Woman, is still moving readers around the world.

May her words continue to rise. May her fire continue to guide.

00:00 Welcome to Quintessential Poetry + Meet Genevieve Ray

01:55 What Is Poetry? Genevieve’s Definition & Why It’s Human Nature

03:49 Finding Her Voice: Pandemic, Identity, Neurodiversity & Advocacy

08:44 Why Poetry Matters: Access, Flexibility & Community Conversations

10:38 Why ‘Genevieve Firepoint’? The Phoenix Metaphor & Creative Rebirth

13:56 Performance: “Free Roaming Adult Woman” (and the Encore)

18:35 Literary Roots & Early Power of Poetic Language (William Blake)

23:43 Reading Together: William Blake’s “The Tyger” + Craft Talk

26:19 Guard Down or Wall Up? Persona, Truth, and the Poet’s Self

28:39 Performance: “For Eulogies” + Does Writing Poetry Hurt?

35:53 Themes & Mission: Love, Protest, Teaching, and Empowering Others

38:37 Performance: “Doubt” + Process—How Poems Start, End, and Get Edited

44:20 Performance: “The Muse Will Not Lift” + Influences & Theater Voice

50:10 Writing for Connection: Making Language Accessible

52:55 From Page to Stage: What Spoken Word Means

54:45 The Poet’s Role Today: Emotional Journalism & Ancestry

57:22 Can Poetry Be About Anything? From Rocks to Stamps

01:07:38 Mentorship & Finding Your Voice: “Collect the Gems, Build the Crown”

01:14:21 Mini Poetry Concert: “Trance (Six Minutes)” & Ophelia Reimagined

01:18:43 Destiny, Surprise, and What Poetry Gives Back

01:24:25 What’s Next Creatively: Travel, Collaborations, One-Woman Show

01:26:15 Poetry UK Behind the Scenes: Building Community on Facebook

01:29:33 Where to Follow Genevieve + Final Farewell

Quintessential Poetry Presents Jacqueline James: God Gave Me Poetry. I Give Back To Help Change The World

Sun, 21 Dec 2025 14:29:31 GMT

Welcome to Episode 3 of Timeless Classics: In this remarkable episode, host Dr. Michael Anthony Ingram revisits a conversation with Jacqueline James that was broadcast on July 11, 2024. Jacqueline—a self-made poet whose gift lay dormant for many years before exploding into an unprecedented creative awakening. After decades of raising five children and building a life for others, Jacqueline's poetic voice returned with such force that she wrote 17 books in a single year! Now releasing her 19th book, Jacqueline proves that some callings arrive exactly when they're meant to—and that poetry's greatest gift is in the giving.

The New York Podcast Association (July 18, 2024) selected this episode as a Staff Favorite, and you'll understand why within minutes of listening. Jacqueline's warmth, wisdom, and steadfast dedication to helping others through verse create a conversation that feels less like an interview and more like sitting with a beloved friend who happens to have magic in her words.

What You'll Discover:

• Jacqueline's incredible origin story: how her mother saved her first poem from third grade.

• In 2016, a medical crisis reignited Jacqueline's dormant talent and led to an unstoppable creative flood.

• How she uses poetry to slow dementia progression in seniors and build literacy in young people

• Her mission of "poetry with a purpose"—creating healing, connection, and hope through words

More About Jacqueline James:

A phenomenal woman in the truest sense, Jacqueline writes across genres—from spiritual poetry to children's books, and from social justice pieces to educational verse. She visits senior residential facilities where poetry serves as medicine, slowing cognitive decline and keeping elders connected. She teaches young people through the YMCA, helping them find their voices. And she transforms life stories into keepsake poems for families navigating loss. This is poetry that doesn't just move you. It changes you.

Blog Post

https://www.quintessentialpoetry.com/blog/a-journey-through-poetry-the-inspirational-world-of-jacqueline-james/

WHEN

Catch the episode on Wednesday, December 24, 2025, at 7:00 PM (CST)/8:00 PM (EST) by visiting the Quintessential Poetry website at https://www.quintessentialpoetry.com/blog/a-journey-through-poetry-the-inspirational-world-of-jacqueline-james/

📖 BONUS:

The podcast includes six poems recorded exclusively for Timeless Classic. Here's a link to the PDF versions of the poems: https://pdflink.to/a930e69d/

About Quintessential Poetry: The award-nominated podcast, Quintessential Poetry, has featured 500+ poets across 450+ episodes, reaching 350,000+ listeners globally. Created and hosted by four-time Pushcart Prize nominee Dr. Michael Anthony Ingram, the podcast celebrates diverse voices in contemporary poetry and spoken word.

Connect with us:

Website: www.quintessentialpoetry.com
Facebook: Quintessential Poetry
Instagram: @quintessentialpoetry

Keywords: poetry podcast, spoken word, Jacqueline James, contemporary poetry, spiritual poetry, literary interviews, American poets, creative writing, poetry performance, literary podcast,

Quintessential Poetry Presents Mike Jurkovic: The Poet Who Makes Jazz Sing and Words Swing

Sat, 20 Dec 2025 23:28:26 GMT

🎷EPISODE 2: MIKE JURKOVIC Poetry That Swings, Sings, and Refuses to Sit Still

This episode is the second installment of Timeless Classics, a series that has been painstakingly put together to bring you the most memorable discussions from the Quintessential Poetry podcast archives. This episode revisits Dr. Michael Anthony Ingram's interview with celebrated poet, author, spoken word artist, and music critic Mike Jurkovic.

Mike is the host of an acclaimed jazz radio show, as well as the Ulster County Poet Laureate for 2025. As a poet, Mike's work is a wonderful blend of humor, wisdom, and folksy charm. The vivid imagery and surrealist style that characterize his poetry have brought him widespread renown. His understanding of rhythm's importance is another defining feature of his jazzy, melodic, lyrical poetry. Rhythm is an inherent part of Mike's poetry.

BACKGROUND

Mike is originally from the South Bronx and has lived in Ulster County, New York, for over 30 years. He is the president and co-founder of Calling All Poets, a prominent poetry organization in the Hudson Valley that has been fostering poetic expression for 26 years. His widely read poetry collections and acclaimed poetry readings often explore themes of everyday life, absurdity, and human connection, making them relatable and impactful.

THE CONVERSATION

This conversation, originally recorded live on May 13, 2024, explored the deep connections between jazz improvisation and poetic rhythm, how music and poetry inform each other, and the art of making complex ideas feel accessible and inviting after being edited and remastered for rebroadcast. From getting nauseous listening to Bob Dylan at 14 to becoming a poet who puts a backbeat in every line—this is Mike's journey. "This conversation has rhythm. It has laughter. It has depth."

📖 BONUS:

Podcast includes six poems from Mike Jurkovic exclusively for Timeless Classics (in order): The Whereabouts of Heaven, Your North Star Still stirs (Sojourner Truth), Mama's Meatballs (off Jerome Avenue), Charming Ineptness You’ve Taken to Heart, Only Here and Saltwater Taffy with Nick Bisanz.

WHEN

Catch the episode on Monday, December 22, 2025, at 8:00 PM (EST) by visiting the Quintessential Poetry website at https://rss.com/podcasts/quintessential-poetry/2393065.

Visit this link on YouTube to listen to the episode: https://youtu.be/o2Swis9mWRQ?si=hRKd17ksu2EwEGsd

Connect with us:

Website: www.quintessentialpoetry.com
Facebook: Quintessential Poetry
Instagram: @quintessentialpoetry

Keywords: poetry podcast, spoken word, John Patrick Robbins, contemporary poetry, literary interviews, American poets, creative writing, poetry performance, literary podcast, Dr. Michael Anthony Ingram, poetry community, alternative poetry,

P.S. We're nominated for Best Arts & Literature Podcast! Vote by Dec 25: https://shorturl.at/EGtV5 🏆

Quintessential Poetry Presents John Patrick Robbins - Raw, Unfiltered Poetry From The Mad Editor

Fri, 19 Dec 2025 19:20:19 GMT

Welcome to the premiere episode of Timeless Classics—a curated series bringing you the most memorable conversations from 450+ episodes of the Quintessential Poetry podcast.

Dr. Michael Anthony Ingram, host of this episode, returns to his impactful conversation with John Patrick Robbins. John is the editor-in-chief of ten magazines, one of which is the Rye Whiskey Review. Nominated for the Pushcart Prize, he is also a renowned author of Southern Gothic-style short stories and poetry. This conversation focuses on his poetry collection, 'Are We Dead Yet?', published by Black Circle Publishing in 2023 (https://www.amazon.com/Are-Dead-John-Patrick-Robbins/dp/B0BL52F4HH).

The poetry book reached the number one spot on the Amazon Charts. Dark and unapologetic, Robbins delivers poetry that is both raw and unfiltered. Robbins stands out as one of the most innovative and thought-provoking figures in the realm of contemporary poetry. His unabashed candor and biting humor invigorate the poetry scene. Here is a link to a bonus collection of his three poems: https://pdflink.to/e372857d/.

What You Will Discover:

Why this conversation continues to resonate with audiences worldwide.
His uncompromising approach to writing and performance
Behind-the-scenes stories from the poetry circuit
Insights on authenticity in creative work
The intersection of rebellion and artistry in modern poetry

Connect with us:

Website: www.quintessentialpoetry.com
Facebook: Quintessential Poetry
Instagram: @quintessentialpoetry

Exploring the Power of Poetry with Kolawole Alatishe: A Quintessential Poetry Book Club Discussion

Sat, 19 Apr 2025 00:07:04 GMT

Join host Dr. Michael Anthony Ingram for the first Quintessential Poetry Book Club discussion featuring renowned poet and peace advocate Kolawole Alatishe. In this episode, Kolawole shares readings from his impactful poetry collection 'Human Togetherness,' which delves into themes of global unity, hope, and moral development. Through powerful verses, Kolawole addresses significant issues such as poverty, climate change, social injustice, and the importance of community. Additionally, Kowale discusses his personal journey, the role of poetry in bridging cultural divides, and his vision for future works. Discover how poetry can be a transformative force as Kolawole Alatishe and Dr. Ingram explore the essence and potential of poetic expression.

The Universal Power of Poetry: A Conversation with Laura Grevel

Sat, 19 Apr 2025 00:00:16 GMT

Join host Dr. Michael Anthony Ingram as he inaugurates the newly rebranded Quintessential Poetry platform with acclaimed poet and spoken word artist Laura Grevel. In this episode, Laura shares profound insights from her extensive life across five different countries. Delving into her poetic influences, the importance of capturing human stories, and the themes that drive her work, Laura reads a number of her poetic pieces. Topics range from migration and identity to politics and nature. Additionally, she discusses the unique power of poetry to inspire empathy, touching on her personal experiences and the universal emotions encapsulated within her words. Listen as they explore the essence of poetry, its ability to convey deep human truths, and Laura's fascinating journey as a poet.

Quintessential Poetry Presents Caroline Adler Micó: Poetry Beyond Boundaries

Sat, 05 Apr 2025 18:23:03 GMT

Hello, everyone,

Welcome to a special episode of The Quintessential Poetry podcast, celebrating National Poetry Month's universal theme of Family and our sub-theme, Poetry Beyond Borders. This episode is dedicated to French director, teacher, author, and scenarist France DeMarcy, whose contributions to the arts and storytelling resonate far beyond borders.

The theme of Family reminds us of the deep connections that bind us together, whether through birth, choice, or bonds that defy categorization. Poetry Beyond Borders amplifies this idea, showcasing how poetry transcends geographical, cultural, and linguistic boundaries to create shared human experiences. In this episode, we feature Caroline Adler Micó, a French multidisciplinary poet who embodies the spirit of poetry without limits. Caroline shares her journey of transforming personal challenges into poetic innovation, exploring themes that connect us across cultures and experiences. Her artistic path spans multiple disciplines, from earth sciences to avant-garde cinema, creating a rich tapestry of creative exploration. Throughout the podcast, discover Caroline's poetic influences, the intersection of vulnerability and strength in her work, and her advice for emerging poets. Caroline's poetry, spoken entirely in her native French, achieves an extraordinary brilliance, inviting listeners into a deeply authentic and transformative experience. While translations are available for listeners (link below), the episode offers a profound opportunity to experience poetry in its most powerful form—through the musicality and emotion of its original language. Caroline's poetic voice transcends borders, connecting us across languages, cultures, and experiences, illustrating the universal depths of human expression. Join us on this journey as we celebrate the power of poetry to unite us as one global family.

00:41 Special Episode: Poetry Beyond Boundaries

01:27 Interview with Caroline Adler Micó

01:58 Exploring the Essence of Poetry

08:59 Themes and Inspirations

23:12 Cultural Influences and International Perspectives

31:40 The Role of Poets in Society

33:38 Advice for Emerging Women Poets

36:03 Creative Processes and Future Plans

49:52 Conclusion and Final Thoughts

Translations will now be available upon request from Quintessential Poetry at quintessentialpoetry@gmail.com. https://docs.google.com/document/d/12g-zFIsSAzu2KmCe1ypYiHB9SW0649T3NCOyVGx15dw/edit?usp=sharing

An interview with Rawle James on Quintessential Poetry - March 22, 2023

Fri, 21 Mar 2025 13:50:58 GMT

In Memory of Rawle James

Rawle James was a beloved poet and community builder from Toronto, Canada whose sudden passing has left a profound impact on poetry communities worldwide. Known for his melodic voice, warm smile, and spiritual depth, Rawle touched countless lives through his art and generous spirit.

Friends and fellow poets remember him as a man with "a great spirit of forgiveness and Love," someone who encouraged others to find their authentic voice. As one friend noted, "He was a friend to everyone he crossed paths with." Rawle's commitment to fostering connections across borders was evident in his global poetic presence, including his appearance on Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio.

Those who knew him speak of his "elder grace," "quiet strength," and the deep conversations that left them "a better person for having met him." His legacy lives on through his poetry and in the hearts of the many writers he mentored and inspired.

As we share this interview from the archives, we invite you to experience the wisdom and warmth that made Rawle James a quintessential poet whose voice, as one friend simply put, "resounds" even now.

Dee Allen: QLPORYT Interview and Poetry Reading - Audio Version

Thu, 01 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Bio: African-Italian performance poet based in Oakland, California. Active on creative writing & Spoken Word since the early 1990s. Author of 9 books--Boneyard, Unwritten Law, Stormwater, Skeletal Black [all from POOR Press], Elohi Unitsi [Conviction 2 Change Publishing], Rusty Gallows: Passages Against Hate [Vagabond Books], Plans [originally Nomadic Press, now re-issued from Black Lawrence Press], Crimson Stain [ EYEPUBLISHEWE] and his newest, Discovery [ Southern Arizona Press] -- and 73 anthology appearances under his figurative belt so far. Episode Summary: As the episode unfolds, Dee's definition of poetry is explored, as well as his views on the insane nature of modern reality, and the political and environmental issues that motivate his work. Throughout the episode Dee shares personal anecdotes, including his first live performance experience, and reads poems from his latest book, 'Discovery.' The conversation also touches on his influences, such as Langston Hughes, Robert Hayden and Sonia Sanchez. It also examines his thoughts on the poet's role in society, the editing process, and the ways in which his remarkably authentic, powerful and distinctive work contributes to the development of empathy and understanding between groups of different sociocultural and ethnic origins. Book: Discovery https:/www.amazon.com/dp/1960038540

Jules Stevenson: QLPORYT Interview and Poetry Reading - Audio Version

Tue, 30 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Jules Stevenson is a 21-year-old poet, artist, and social media influencer from Selkirk, Manitoba. She began writing in her early teens as a means of coping with anxiety, depression, anorexia, sexual trauma, abuse, and suicide. Over the years, her writing has evolved into an incredibly intimate and honest body of work. At 16, Jules self-published her first book, ‘atrophy,’ a collection centered around anorexia. Her work frequently explores themes of trauma, the body, feminism, and mental health. In 2023, her poem 'An Apology to My Cat' went viral on TikTok, gaining over 12.6 million views. This global reaction led to the self-publication of her poetry memoir, ‘self portraits of a girl collapsing violently inward,’ which focuses on sexual and digital trauma during the COVID-19 pandemic. Jules has garnered several accolades in the poetry community, including winning first place at Slamdemic, third place with her team at Poetry in Voice, and securing second place multiple times at Poetry Battles. In 2024, she represented her province at the Canadian Individual Poetry Slam, showcasing her talent on a national stage. She was also selected by the Manitoba Council for International Cooperation to co-author and perform a poem on gender equality at the legislature for International Development Week. Currently, Jules spends her time working as a barista, writing, and enjoying the company of her beloved cats, Moth and Lamp. Website https://www.juliestevenson.ca Social Media https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQrLpVSQGKS-pI_6KRe1GJw https://www.tiktok.com/@recently.depressed

QLPOR-YouTube Presents David Leo Sirois: Pre-Recorded Interview and Reading

Wed, 24 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Bio David Leo Sirois is a Canadian-American poet published 153 times, in 26 countries. His work has been translated into 13 languages (such as Hindi, Bengali, French, Spanish, Greek, & Romanian). He hosts Spoken World Online, the Zoom arm of SpokenWord Paris. His first collection is called Humbledoves (Poems to Pigeons & Plants). He won Third Prize in Winning Writers' Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest. Sirois has been honored for his “admirable contribution to world literature” by The Fertile Brains, a renowned literary group in India. He teaches workshops online for The Bombay Review, as well as The Poetry Academy of Poetry Global Network. His poetry has appeared in journals such as The Bombay Review, Artemis Journal, The Poetry Village, One Hand Clapping, The Bastille, Poetry Super Highway, & Terre à Cièl (which also publishes his translations of French poetry). Sirois has been featured on countless international programs, podcasts & interviews. His poetry has been featured in films & music. He is also a singer/songwriter, radio DJ, & a film/TV/theater actor. He is currently submitting 5 finished manuscripts for publication & writing several more. Book Humbledoves (poems to pigeons & plants): https://a.co/d/5MRB33i Ko-Fi tip jar: https://ko-fi.com/davidleosirois0412

QLPORYT Presents Jacqueline James: Encore Poetry Interview and Reading

Fri, 12 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Bio: Jacqueline James is a self-made poet. She has published 17 books. Twelve of these books are poetry books and the other five are children's books, which are written with a jingle through the messages. The gift poetry came to her naturally at a young age. Jacqueline expresses the rhythm stanza of poetry. She considers herself to be a master of rhymes. The art of poetry is the way she communicates as inner feelings which she believes many of her values are shared with her readers. Jacqueline James is very passionate about her work. Website: https://www.rhymesjj.com/ Social Media: https://youtube.com/@jacquelinejames695 https://instagram.com/rhymesandreasons1964?igshid=OGQ5ZDc2ODk2ZA== https://m.facebook.com/groups/601276901464279/?ref=share&mibextid=

QLPORYT Presents Lauren Martin: Encore Poetry Interview and Reading

Tue, 09 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Lauren Martin is a psychotherapist, poet, and a devoted Iyanifa practictioner. She lives in Oakland, California. Lauren studied poetry at Sarah Lawrence College. She spent years writing without submitting her work due to a long shamanic journey, which led her to both Ifá, and to writing "Night of the Hawk: Poems." Summary: In this episode, Dr. Michael Anthony Ingram interviews Lauren Martin, a psychotherapist, Iyanifa practitioner, and poet. Lauren discusses her debut poetry collection, "Night of the Hawk: Poems," inspired by her shamanic journey. The collection explores the experiences of marginalized and disabled individuals, highlighting the intersection of poetry, psychotherapy, and shamanism. Lauren shares her unique ability to dream poems, which she believes are messages from the other side. She reads emotionally charged poems inspired by real-life events, such as the Nigerian Chibok girls' kidnapping and her own experiences with sickness and spirituality. The episode delves into Lauren's personal journey, the concept of destiny in Ifa tradition, her perspectives on empathy, and her inspirations from both literary and musical realms. Throughout the interview, Lauren emphasizes the importance of authentic expression and the resilience of the human spirit through her evocative poetry. Website https://www.laurenmartin.net Social Media https://www.instagram.com/frankyisastar Book https://www.amazon.com/Night-Hawk-Poems-Lauren-Martin/dp/1647426588mU

QLPORYT Presents Poetry from the 2024 Audio Vault: Mike Jurkovic

Wed, 19 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMT

In this podcast episode, host Dr. Michael Anthony Ingram interviews Mike Jurkovic, a globally published poet. They discuss Mike's poetic journey, his collections, and his views on the importance of poetry as a means of communication. Mike shares his approach to writing, influences, and the role of musicality and humor in his work. He reads several of his poems, including 'Eleanor's Purse," and 'Gracie,' and reflects on his experiences and thoughts on the intersection of poetry and performance. The discussion also touches on the emotional and cultural impacts of poetry, the evolution of the art form, and the challenges faced by poets today. Additional Information: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2574804195871925/permalink/7919312898087668/

QLPORYT Presents a Juneteenth Encore Poetry Reading: Two Sisters and a Brotha

Tue, 18 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMT

In honor of Juneteenth, QLPORYT presents a special episode titled "Two Sisters and a Brotha." Hosted by Dr. Michael Anthony Ingram, this powerful poetry reading brings together renowned poets and real-life sisters Cheryl J. Jackson and Lyris Dee Wallace, who are not only best-selling authors but have also achieved the remarkable feat of reaching number 1 on Amazon's list of poetry books, alongside Dr. Ingram himself. Through a series of solo readings, the poets present a compelling collection of works that explore the Black experience, delving into a wide range of human emotions and addressing crucial issues of social justice. Their poems touch on themes of love, resilience, family, relationships, racial oppression, identity, and personal well-being. As the poets share their art on this significant day, they reflect on their rich heritage, pay tribute to influential figures who have shaped their lives and communities, and deliver impactful messages that resonate with listeners. The episode serves as a testament to the transformative power of poetry and its ability to shed light on the complexities of the human experience, while also honoring the legacy of Juneteenth and the ongoing struggle for equality. "Two Sisters and a Brotha" offers a thought-provoking and emotionally charged listening experience that celebrates the talent and wisdom of these three remarkable poets. Tune in on this Juneteenth to be inspired, challenged, and moved by their words, as we commemorate this pivotal moment in American history and celebrate the incredible success of best-selling authors and sisters Cheryl J. Jackson and Lyris Dee Wallace in the world of poetry. Additional Information: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2574804195871925/permalink/7887257831293175/

QLPORYT Presents Linette Rabsatt: Encore Poetry Interview and Reading

Fri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Episode Summary: This episode is an encore audio presentation of an interview with Lynette Rabsatt, a poet from the Virgin Islands who has been writing since 1996. Featuring over 200 pieces, Lynette's work aims to inspire and uplift through her blog and social media. The interview discusses the essence, importance, and themes of poetry, Lynette’s influences, and her journey from struggling in high school literature to becoming an established poet encouraged by Dr. Vincent Cooper. The episode includes Lynette sharing multiple poems, insights into her creative process, and her views on the role of poetry in highlighting social issues. Lynette also talks about her aspirations, her blog, and the impact of online poetry readings amidst the pandemic. For additional information, please visit: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10231774469801483&set=gm.7875321479153477&idorvanity=2574804195871925

QLPORYT Presents Noreen Ann Snyder: Encore Poetry Interview and Reading

Thu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 GMT

In this episode of Quintessential Listening Poetry Online Radio and YouTube, Dr. Michael Anthony Ingram interviews poet Noreen Snyder. Originally from Columbia City, Indiana, Noreen Snyder is a published author of five poetry books and the founder of The Poetry Club on Facebook. Noreen shares her poetic journey, discussing her themes of love, nature, and life, and emphasizes the importance of writing from the heart. She also talks about maintaining the legacy of her late husband, Gary Snyder, and the support and encouragement he provided during their marriage. During the interview, Noreen reads several of her poems, explores her inspirations, and reflects on the impact of her work on others. They discuss the emotional and healing power of poetry, the role of poets in society, and her upcoming book on grieving. For additional information, please visit: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10231722306137424&set=gm.7829825670369725&idorvanity=2574804195871925

QLPORYT Presents Teresa E. Gallion: Encore Poetry Interview and Reading

Tue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Episode Summary: The Quintessential Listening Poetry Online Radio and YouTube Podcast, hosted by Dr. Michael Anthony Ingram, features a deep dive into the poetic journey of renowned poet and author Teresa E. Gallion. Gallion discusses her experiences during a transformative trip to Egypt in May 2022, which inspired her latest poetry collection, 'Come Egypt.' She shares enchanting excerpts from the book, detailing how the ancient sights influenced her writing. The discussion also covers her creative process, the organization of her poems, her engagement with younger audiences, and future projects. The session concludes with readings from the different sections of her book, reflecting on themes of nature, spirituality, and historical resonance. For more information, please visit: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1155068305769120&set=gm.7820351484650477&idorvanity=2574804195871925 BJCHmLkEGqx56YFJk9CJ

QLPORYT Presents Bill Cushing and Chuck Corbiserio

Tue, 14 May 2024 18:30:00 GMT

Join us for the upcoming QLPORYT podcast on Tuesday, April 30, 2024, at 2:00 PM (PST)/5:00 PM (EST), featuring an interview with author and renowned poet Bill Cushing, as well as musician Chuck Corbisiero. Bill will also read excerpts from his riveting new book, "Heroic Brothers of the Civil War." The book focuses on two brothers’ exploits fighting for the Union. "The Last Man" relates Lt. Alonzo Cushing's death during Gettysburg; he was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor in 2014 for his actions. "The First Seal" gives a comprehensive overview of the military life of his younger brother, William, a midshipman dismissed from Annapolis for his behavior but who was reinstated to the Navy at the war’s start to become one of its most daring heroes.

Quintessential Listening Poetry Online Radio and YouTube Presents Skaja Evens

Wed, 08 May 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Skaja Evens is a writer, publisher, and artist living in Southeast Virginia. She runs Mōtus Audāx Press and publishes Disturb The Universe Magazine and It Takes All Kinds Literary Zibe. Publication credits include Spillwords Press, Medusa’s Kitchen, Ink Pantry, Off the Coast, The Crossroads Lit Magazine, The Rye Whiskey Review, Synchronized Chaos, and Blue Pepper. Her first book, conscientia veritatis, was recently published by Whiskey City Press and can be found at Amazon.com. conscientia veritatis We experience an ever-changing landscape of emotions while living our lives and trying to find our ways through the world. conscientia veritatis is a book that translates these emotions through the world view of Skaja Evens. Touching on love, mental health, patriarchy, grief, boldness, and more, Evens pours her heart out on the page, offering a look inside her experiences, written to foster connection to those around her. And hope for connection in return. https://www.amazon.com/conscientia-veritatis-Skaja-Evens/dp/B0CZTRN7ZP/ref=sr_1_1?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.D7YrhrU5tQcfneUu1o8RWg.UQJBq-BbGSPNtWsU32KH9ZBe5BDBFSBB4PRCZ6ts-30&dib_tag=se&keywords=skaja+evens&qid=1714536038&sr=8-1

QLPORYT Presents Ray Whitaker: Encore Poetry Interview and Reading

Tue, 30 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT

My special guest on the Tuesday, April 2, 2024 episode of the QLPORYT podcast will be acclaimed poet and author Ray Whitaker. Ray has been writing both prose and poetry since he was seventeen. What Ray is writing now is very different from what he wrote so many years ago. All writers and poets are writing out of "the Self" however there are directions that the self speaks into, that change. Now Ray’s writing is to put foremost in his work, just who he is writing for. He intends on writing for the everyday man and woman. He firmly believes that poems need to reach into the everyday person's pictures in their minds, and engage with those. This is where he aims to make a difference in his creative writing. He’s fulfilled when he sees that his work is provoking thought in his readers.

QLPORYT Presents Kenneth Maswabi: Encore Poetry Interview and Reading

Sat, 04 May 2024 17:00:00 GMT

My interview with the distinguished poet and author Kenneth Maswabi. He and I had originally met on Zoom on Saturday, April 13, 2024, at 1:00 PM Eastern Standard Time (EST) or 7:00 PM Central Africa Time (CAT). Bio I am a 47 year old citizen of Botswana, Africa. I'm a General Practitioner /Medical Doctor by profession. My interest in Poetry is more spiritual as I find poetry as a medium that connects people at a spiritual level. I didn't study Poetry, I found myself writing poetry every time I was in a certain state of mind. It's like poems just flow through me. I don't plan or research topics or themes, it's just dependent on events that are happening in my life or the world. In 2021, I published a Poetry book called "Love, Consciousness and Humanity: The Path of Silence: The Shadowless Dreamer." Book: Love, Consciousness, & Humanity: The Illuminated Path of Silence https://a.co/d/eZR2F1o

Quintessential Listening Poetry Online Radio and YouTube Presents Todd Cirillo

Fri, 15 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Todd Cirillo was born of bastard lineage. He has many books and misdemeanors. His books include; Sucker’s Paradise, Burning the Evidence, ROXY, Three For the Road, Kisses From A Straight Razor and Disposable Darlings (Roadside Press March 2024). He is co-founder and editor of Six Ft. Swells Press, and his poems have appeared in numerous national and international literary journals, magazines and on cocktail napkins everywhere. Todd lives in New Orleans, Louisiana where he seeks out shiny moments and strange wisdom. He can be found at www.toddcirillo.com. Website https://www.toddcirillo.com Amazon Link https://amazon.com/toddcirillo Social Media https://instagram.com/suckersparadise https://facebook.com/toddcirillo https://youtube.com/toddcirillo

QLPoetryOR-YouTube Presents Garrett Brisbane

Thu, 22 Feb 2024 03:00:00 GMT

Bio I was born in Folsom, CA. My childhood was filled with running with the cross-country team through the suburban neighborhoods, trampolining in the backyard, and lots of road trips to LA county. I started writing narrative stories when I was 10 years old. They always told of a tragic hero who died in the heat of action. My poetry started blossoming as a senior in college when I took Poetry 101. The group critique sessions were a place of freedom for me to share my imagination through zany and erratic imagery. My professor urged me to reign in my ideas. Provide a stable field for the reader, she told me. I gained a more precise ear for pleasing phrases by listening intently to my classmates' offerings. Poetry continues to poke in and out of my life. I believe in not holding a knife to my own throat to produce a defined sort of writing. Instead, I allow my writing to wander from poetry to short stories to song lyrics. I want to cherish this explorative phase, allowing a wide range of voices to sound on the page. My electronic music (Dungeon_Angel_Baby by Gargon on all streaming platforms) represents my inclination towards the fun and the freaky. The insolent little monster inside me dares anyone brave enough to listen. I hope you tune in. Much more introspection on record coming soon. Thank you to Dr. Michael Anthony Ingram for inviting me to share my poetry on the show. I hope listeners enjoy my offerings. Website and Social Media https://garrettbrisbane.wixsite.com/my-site https://youtube.com/@garrettbrisbane7833?si=rWPxuWtqHLOFEnBg

Quintessential Listening Poetry Online Radio-YouTube Presents Margaret R. Sáraco

Wed, 07 Feb 2024 01:00:00 GMT

Margaret R. Sáraco is a storyteller writing at the intersection of poetry, fiction, and memoir. Her writing appears in anthologies and literary journals including Paterson Literary Review, Exit 13, The Path Literary Magazine, Book of Matches, Greening the Earth (Penguin Books), Lips, and Kerning: A Space for Words. She is a poetry editor for the Platform Review, has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and twice recognized in the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Contest. Margaret has recorded video poems for Poetry of Protest and Struggle, Writing the Land, and Poets Wear Prada, performs spoken word and leads writing workshops. Margaret also taught middle school students in math and writing for 27 years and recently retired in June 2022. She published her debut poetry collection If There Is No Wind in September 2022, and Even the Dog Was Quiet, thirteen months later in October 2023, both with Human Error Publishing. She lives in Montclair, NJ with her husband Alex, who did the illustrations for her latest book. Amazon.com: Even the Dog Was Quiet: 9781948521185: Sáraco, Margaret R.: Books www.qlporyt.com

QLPOR-YouTube Poetry Presents Celaine Charles

Tue, 30 Jan 2024 01:00:00 GMT

Celaine Charles is a multi-genre author living in the Pacific Northwest. She balances her dual life writing poetry and fiction by night and teaching elementary students by day. On the poetry side, her chapbook Colors Collected (stemming from her Channillo-hosted, online poetry series, Colors) launched in 2019 (Palmetto Publishing Group). Her newest full collection, Three Hearts Stitched, is forthcoming in January 2024 (Egret Lake Books). Previous works include: Tupelo Press 30/30 Challenge Project, Dime Show Review, Nine Muses Poetry, Spillwords Press, The Seattle Star, and The Sunlight Press, among others. Celaine was a poetry finalist in the PNWA Literary Contest, July 2017. On the fiction side, her YA Fantasy, Seam Keepers, debuted May 2021 (The Wild Rose Press), and her holiday paranormal novella, Stained Glass Secrets and Star Wishes, released November 2022 (The Wild Rose Press). Both have received awards. Celaine has many writing projects in the fire, craves allergy-free chocolate, and thrives taking walks in her beautiful Washington State forests. Connect with CC via https://linktr.ee/celainecharles. Social Media https://twitter.com/celaine_charles https://www.instagram.com/cc_celainecharles/ https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100020278358757 Amazon Store https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B07WYZSQK3?ingress=0&visitId=f19a6faa-08b1-44a6-a1c4-67528d1a8fbc&store_ref=ap_rdr&ref_=ap_rdr

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Keyana The Artist

Wed, 17 Jan 2024 01:00:00 GMT

Love / Character / Art/ Keyana- The Artist: “God gave glory over my life and I’m a walking testimony.” Keyana- The Artist is a self-taught poet from Atlanta GA. She has been writing inspiring, captivating, and educational poems for over a decade. Keyana- The Artist blazed onto writing arena back in 2010 when she was in high school and has performed in conferences, churches, and open mic. She has also performed poems in many cities including Louisville, Kentucky; Chicago, Illinois; Richmond, Indiana; Indianapolis, Indiana; Atlanta, Georgia; Haiti; Africa; Scotland; London; New York; Arizona; New Jersey; California; New Zealand; and Missouri.Poetry is inspiration when she expresses it through words and dancing. It is amazing when she’s performing to the world what it means to them. Her focus as a new artist is to encourage others to be in touch with their emotions. She strives to be a motivated and inspired well-known artist around the world. As well because this is my mission. She is composing poems with the goal of inspiring and educating people on success in life. She appeared on the radio as a guest where she shared her success in poetry and encouraged listeners to try experimenting with this writing genre. She has also appeared in television and podcast shows. She is the Author of 7 Books. She is a current member of Dress for Success. Please subscribe to her YouTube Channel: Keyana- The Artist (https://youtu.be/-dBaMEYa7VM) to keep yourself update with her latest videos. You can reach me via keyanaposey0@gmail.com or at +1(770)-731-8208. Website:https://linktr.ee/keyanatheartistBooks:https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B07S1H8VK9/about

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Scott Hightower

Fri, 15 Dec 2023 01:00:00 GMT

Bio: SCOTT HIGHTOWER is the author of four books of poetry in the US. He has published two bilingual collections in Spain. He is also the editor of the bi-lingual (English/Spanish) poetry anthology 2012 Women Rowing: Mujeres A Los Remos, Mantis Editores, Guadalajara, Mexico. Hightower's awards include a Hayden Carruth Book Award and a Barnstone Translation Prize. Originally from Texas, he has itinerantly sojourned in India, Italy, Spain, and now lives in Manhattan where he teaches at NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study. Scott will have his seventh book of poetry, Imperative to Spare, published by Rebel Satori Press in November of this year. It is a stunning portrait of grief prompted by the loss of his partner of over 40 years. It is his best collection yet and a remarkable contribution to contemporary American and LGBT poetry. Fellow poet and author of instead, it is dark Cynthia Hogue praised: “By turns poignantly honest and sardonically defiant, Hightower chronicles with rare brio the harrowing challenges of navigating the daily after his ‘worst fear’ has happened…This necessary volume blazes a trail through despair to wisdom.” Email: shightower@nyc.rr.com Social Media https://wInstagram.com/shightower2018 https://www.facebook.com/es.torrealta https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Hightower mXwfzwMqeRW0nQUeTpWt

QLPOR Proudly Presents EYEPUBLISHEWE 2023 Authors Showcase

Wed, 13 Dec 2023 01:00:00 GMT

Dane Ince is an internationally published poet, named Beat Poet Laureate for California, and hosts a weekly open mic – Time to Arrive, and founder of EYEPUBLISHEWE. Book: The Whole Existential Novel Lesley Constable is the author of “Entry Point” and a poet/painter “…the making of poetry is an act of deep and reverent play.” This deeply held belief arises from many influences, and not presented in order here consists of Beat poetry, Jungian views, existentialism, transcendentalism, and visionary art. Lesley holds a B.A. in Arts Journalism and an M.F.A. in Arts Criticism. Book: A House Without Walls Mimi German is a poet and an activist/advocate for the houseless living in the Pacific Northwest and is the author of “Beneath the Gravel Weight of Stars.” Book: Where Grasses Bend John Angell Grant is a writer/director from Palo Alto, California. His short film “Two Stoners” won the award for “Best Indie Super Short Film” at the 8 & Halfilm Awards, a festival in honor of Fellini’s masterpiece “8 1/2.” John is the author of "Women and Religion in the Modern Drawing Room Plays of T.S. Eliot." And of 12 produced stage plays and a serialized novel “A Deadly Secret.” Book: The Green Notebook Martin Del Toro Gutierrez is an artist, world traveler from Sayulita, Mexico wrapping his arms around the nature of love in his first book of poems in Spanish and English “Naturalzela del Amor.” Book: La Naturalzela del Amor

QLPOR Presents Farastein Mokwenye (Prerecorded)

Sat, 25 Nov 2023 19:00:00 GMT

As a result of sound issues, your audio device may need to be turned up to a higher volume. Farastein Mokwenye is an entrepreneur, engineer, freelance writer, poet and the author of the historical romance fiction novel "Tales of Jideofor." The story follows the life of Jideofor during the transatlantic slave trade era, from Illah in Western Igbo lands down to Jamaica, through a rich tale of dreams, death, destiny and the afterlife. The full length novel was expanded from his short story of the same name that had won runner-up at the Goge Africa 20th Anniversary Writing Competition in 2020. Book https://www.amazon.com/Tales-Jideofor-Farastein-Mokwenye/dp/1915161819/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1700847340&sr=8-1 Audio Excerpt - Tales of Jideofor https://teambooktu.com/tales-of-jideofor

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Marie Metaphor Specht

Tue, 05 Dec 2023 01:00:00 GMT

Marie Metaphor Specht is a multidisciplinary artist, poet, and educator living with her partner and son on the unceded territories of the Lək̓ʷəŋən- and SENĆOTEN-speaking peoples. She has collaborated with filmmakers, lighting engineers, dancers, and musicians to create immersive and interactive works. A long-time member of the Canadian spoken word scene, Marie is currently serving a two-year term as the 6th Poet Laureate of Victoria, British Columbia. Her work has been featured at festivals, arts events and poetry slams across the country. She believes in the transformative power of this art form and has had the privilege of coaching and creating space for youth poets for two decades. Marie’s poetry has been published in Oratorealis, Untethered Magazine, Chestnut Review, The Hellebore, and Room Magazine, among others. Her debut poetry collection, Soft Shelters (see below), is published with Write Bloody North. Website https://www.mariemetaphor.com/ Book https://writebloodynorth.ca/products/soft-shelters-by-marie-specht-pre-sale Social Media https://www.instagram.com/mariemetaphor/ https://www.facebook.com/marie.muddy.7 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeqYpKmGeHALNHSE0fOj3UyMAg4mDe3vO

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Derek Annis

Wed, 22 Nov 2023 01:00:00 GMT

Derek Annis (they/he) is a neurodivergent poet from the Inland Northwest. He is the author of Neighborhood of Gray Houses (Lost Horse Press) and River City Fires (Driftwood Press). They are an editor for Lynx House Press, and their poems have appeared in The Account, Colorado Review, Epiphany, The Gettysburg Review, The Missouri Review Online, Poet Lore, Spillway, and Third Coast, among others. https://derekannis.wordpress.com/ https://instagram.com/derekannis?igshid=NzZlODBkYWE4Ng== https://www.facebook.com/derek.annis?mibextid=ZbWKwL

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Alexander Poster

Tue, 14 Nov 2023 01:00:00 GMT

Alexander Poster is a good, grey bureaucrat who works as a historian for a labyrinthine federal agency. He lives less than one mile from the U.S. Capitol and survived a nasty case of COVID-19, none of which inspired his writing one bit. He is a fan of Cormac McCarthy, depressing music from the 80s and 90s, and, surprisingly, marine mammals. He loves his wife, even though she has expressed concern for him being a “cynical bastard.” He began writing poems later in his life and is his first chapbook. He has performed his poems at “Spit That” at the Woolly Mammoth in Washington, DC. Book: A Refuge For Those Who Like Sad Endings https://a.co/d/6MDsbIn Social Media https://facebook.com/aposter https://www.instagram.com/alex.poster/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexander-poster-7b7421a

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Mike Turner

Thu, 09 Nov 2023 01:00:00 GMT

Mike Turner is a songwriter and poet living on the US Alabama Gulf Coast. A retired Federal law enforcement executive, Mike was named 2017 Male Gospel Entertainer of the Year by the North America Country Music Associations International, and was a featured performer at the 2021 Monroeville (AL) Literary Festival. His recordings have received radio and streaming play in the US, UK, Europe and Far East. Mike has had more than 280 poems published in over 50 literary journals and anthologies; his book, “Visions and Memories,” was published in 2021 by Sweetycat Press. When not writing, Mike and his wife Pamela Caudill explore the bays and backwaters along the Gulf Coast aboard their classic trawler yacht. Website http://www.MikeTurnerSongwriter.com Book https://www.amazon.com/stores/Mike-Turner/author/B098BK9SHZ?ref=ap_rdr&store_ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true Social Media https://twitter.com/schoonerskipper https://instagram.com/MikeTurnerSongwriter https://youtube.com/MikeTurnerSongwriter https://linkedin.com/in/mike-turner-54b75240

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Featuring Jamey Boelhower

Thu, 07 Dec 2023 01:00:00 GMT

Jamey Boelhower is a poet and independent author with numerous published works to his name. Not only is Jamey a prolific writer but also he has been an educator for over 20 years. Although his focus is on poetry, Jamey has also made a name for himself with his compelling blogs and popular fictional novel Under the Lights. Jamey’s most recent works include his latest collection While Death Waits (2023), April 2020: A Poetic Time Capsule of Writing and Living During a Pandemic, These Words Believe in Ghosts, and Father and Son: Words Apart, and many others. Throughout his career, Jamey has delved into a variety of topics, including family, heartache, and the mysteries of life. Jamey is well-known for challenging his readers' perspectives and inspiring them to see things in a deeper way. As a loving husband and father of six, Jamey enjoys spending his free time with his family. Currently, he is working on new works that will be released soon. Book While Death Waits: Boelhower, Jamey: 9798865705642: Amazon.com: Books Body of Work https://www.amazon.com/Jamey-Boelhower/e/B06XPP9CY2/ Social Media https://twitter.com/jdog90 https://www.instagram.com/jboelhower/

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Chris Courtney Martin

Wed, 18 Oct 2023 00:00:00 GMT

BIO: Chris Courtney Martin is a Black Queer multidisciplinary artist and psychic medium originally from Philadelphia. Martin's produced screenwriting credits include short independent projects starring talents such as Sheryl Lee Ralph and Niecy Nash, as well as the animated YouTube series 'SOMETHING SCARY'. After a multi-awarded screenwriting trajectory, the artist pivoted to literature. Their debut poetry/prose chapbook THE BOOK OF I.P. (Idle Poems) is available in print on Amazon, via Alien Buddha Press. A second, full-length collection called SLAM POEMS FOR MY BATHROOM MIRROR...And Other Selected Works... is due to launch in October of 2023. Martin also releases music under the name KWEAN OONTZ and debuted with the 'A KWEAN OONTZ NOVEL' MicroAlbum in June 2023, to positive international critical reception.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Alyssa Noelle Coelho

Fri, 27 Oct 2023 00:00:00 GMT

After sharing her first journey back to love in her 2016 #1 bestselling poetry compilation, CHOSEN, Death's breath sent twenty-one-year-old Alyssa on her first meaning-seeking mission around the world. Through her sociocultural anthropology training at UCSD and many seasons of disconnection with her soul and source, Alyssa unearthed some deeper truths behind the human experience and learned to alchemize her own tragedies into a greater sense of meaning and adventure. A poet and novelist, dancer and world traveler, she has been passionately immersing herself in cultures worldwide, studying their traditions and transformations through the lens of meaning and purpose for years. A lover of novelty and a delighter in the extraordinary, Alyssa uses the power of words and stories to romance humans into falling in love with their precious existence. She reminds us of our wild potential, of our hungry spirits, and of the entire world awaiting our unique gifts. As the Founder of Lionheart Creations, and Co-Founder and Lead Designer at Saved By Story Publishing, she serves messengers and enterprises on a mission to facilitate positive change in the world. She co-hosts the savory, storytelling madness of Sips of Story 'n Sanity podcast, showcasing the journeys of other Seekers and Creators from around the world.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Featuring Megan Wildhood

Fri, 13 Oct 2023 00:00:00 GMT

Megan Wildhood is a writer, editor, and writing coach who helps her readers feel seen in her monthly newsletter, poetry chapbook Long Division (Finishing Line Press, 2017), her forthcoming poetry collection Bowed As If Laden With Snow (Cornerstone Press, May 2023) as well as Mad in America, The Sun and elsewhere. You can learn more about her writing, working with her and her mental-health and research newsletter at www.meganwildhood.com.

QLPOR Features Samuel Rain Benjamin AKA Complicated Passions

Tue, 10 Oct 2023 00:00:00 GMT

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Noushka

Fri, 06 Oct 2023 00:00:00 GMT

From an eternal realm, NOUSHKA, was destined to blaze forth, and her ability to was written for her before the beginning of time. As a child, she was often complimented for her beautiful handwriting amongst other things, and though aesthetically pleasing, there were days of old when she naively inscribed her aesthetic; not realizing, everything written and done in this tangible realm has the ability to be trapped in time. Now that she's met Oneness, whenever her life strikes fire, she does all things from the well of, understanding, truth, and love. 'Refined, Passionate Fire' is the title of her book available at https://www.noushkapresents.com/

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents James Mr. Speaker Sears

Wed, 04 Oct 2023 00:00:00 GMT

James Mr. Speaker Sears is a highly decorated retired Army officer with four combat tours who is originally from Louisville, KY. He is an event host, motivational speaker, spoken word artist, track coach, and professional mentor with the Steve Harvey Summer Camp. He is a highly decorated Soldier, a former adjunct professor for Saint Leo University, the author of two books, (The Heart of a Military Leader and Love Verses Hate). He has produced five spoken word CDs, and he has co-hosted with BlogTalk and he is the host of Verbal Vibration Podcast. Mr. Speaker is all about mentoring our youth, supporting veteran’s issues, being a champion for victims, and taking the art of spoken word to the next level. He has featured and or hosted at the Nuyorican Poet's Cafe, Bus Boys and Poets, all over Europe, and he was a featured speaker aboard the Tom Joyner Cruise. https://mrspeakerink.com/ https://www.instagram.com/mrspeakersears/ https://www.facebook.com/james.f.sears

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Phynne~Belle

Thu, 28 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMT

Phynne~Belle is a San Francisco Bay Area poet, writer, and co-director of The Poetry Global Network. She had her poetry included in two poetry anthologies in 2021, Sinew: Ten Years of Poetry in the Brew and The Bronx Memoir Project Anthology Vol. V. This year, she has contributed to PGN’s first anthology, Kaleidoscopoetry, which includes works from poets across the globe. Phynne has one poetry collection titled, Some Days, Here. You can also find her holding her a bimonthly online open mic on 2nd & 4th Thursdays, as well as organize other poetry events and programs through her Phynnecabulary platform that endeavor to make the literary arts (poetry in particular) accessible widely. Phynne used to be a superhero of creatures big and small in a past life. You can follow her on Instagram @phynne_belle and on Twitter @PhynneBelle. To connect with her in more ways, you can go to https://linktr.ee/PhynneBelle. https://www.instagram.com/phynne_belle https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=0CDgQw7AJahcKEwi45uvy5fH_AhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAw&url=https%3A%2F%2Fopen.spotify.com%2Fshow%2F5n9uR9Ii0D0vZ103Z1Jl9k&psig=AOvVaw3_zCEMGQiHSAiJG--8NeDM&ust=1688448215915364&opi=89978449 https://twitter.com/PhynneBelle

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Paul Rabinowitz

Tue, 26 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMT

Paul Rabinowitz is a novelist, poet, photographer, founder of ARTS By The People and an adjunct professor at Fairleigh Dickinson University. His works appear in The Sun Magazine, New World Writing, Burningword, Evening Street Press, The Montreal Review, and elsewhere. Rabinowitz was a featured artist in Nailed Magazine in 2020, Mud Season Review in 2022 and Apricity and Woven Tale Press in 2023. He is the author of The Clay Urn, Confluence and Limited Light, a book of prose and portrait photography, which stems from his Limited Light photo series, nominated for Best of the Net in 2021. Rabinowitz is creator and co-writer with Brittney Bertier of the TV pilot called Bungalow, and author of the book of poems called truth, love and the lines in between and a chapbook of auto-fiction called Grand Street, Revisited (both with Finishing Line Press). His poems and fiction are the inspiration for 8 award-winning experimental films, including Best Experimental Short at Cannes, Venice Shorts Film Festival, RevolutionME, Oregon Short Film Festival, and The Paris Film Festival. This month his photograph appeared on the cover of Press Pause Press Magazine and inside Glint and Burningword Literary Magazine. His latest prose poems “Netflix Thriller” will appear in Sonora Review and “In The Original Language” in Talking River Review.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents John Patrick Robbins

Sun, 24 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMT

John Patrick Robbins is a southern gothic writer and poet. He is also referred to as The Mad Editor; he is currently the editor in chief of thirteen magazines. He is also the author twelve books his latest being Midnight Masochism from Black Circle Publishing. He has been published in The Dopefiend Daily, Punk Noir Magazine, Horror Sleaze Trash, San Pedro River Review, Schlock Magazine, Red Fez, Fearless Poetry Zine, Disturb The Universe, It Takes All Kinds A Literary Zine,Mojave River Review, Piker Press, Impspired Magazine Lothlorian Poetry Journal, Fixator Press. His work is dark, often humorous and always unfiltered.

QLPOR Proudly Presents Tré'Jhaun Andrece Dueberry

Fri, 22 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMT

Tré’Jhaun Andrece Dueberry (They/Them & She/Her), also known for their poetry as Love Infinite, is a multi-disciplinary creator, performer and artist currently living in Augusta, Georgia. They bow in service to the ideas of evolution and constant metamorphosis through a reverence of nature, divinity, vulnerability and candor in all they create. They recently self-published an e-book titled The Fear Project, Volume One. For all things Tré’Jhaun, visit www.beacons.ai/tr3333gga. https://trejhaun.wixsite.com/4444 https://www.instagram.com/dragonempress99/ https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100071762621768 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7I7kVrtBkKc6fHQr_Wa8tg https://www.linkedin.com/in/trejhaundueberry/

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Poetry Global Network

Wed, 13 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMT

Poetry Global Network A few years after we all met during COVID during the emerging open-mic scene on Zoom, Lakan (LKN) presented the idea of us forming a poet’s community. PGN - Poetry Global Network (PGN) was created in 2021 as a non-profit corporation in the UK. We are an international media platform created by poets to serve poetry and its new and expanding audiences using social media and technology platforms. PGN offers weekly installments of open mics, workshops, partnerships with festivals and publishing. PGN publishing released its first book in 2023, Kaleidoscopoetry, an anthology of 16 member poets, and are currently working on 2 collections by different poets. Website: www.poetryglobalnetwork.com On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PoetryGlobalNetwork. Executive Board Members: Lawan Bulatao, Mark Fishbein, Martin Grey, LKN and Phynne

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Brian Zaffino

Tue, 05 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMT

About the Author: Brian Zaffino holds a BA in Creative Writing from New York University. He grew up around New England, primarily in Connecticut and New Hampshire, and now resides in New York. Ghosts of Mr. Baker is his debut poetry collection. Synopsis: A book of nostalgia, tragedy, and universal truths. In his debut collection, Brian Zaffino takes readers on a journey through time and space, exploring the intricate connections between past, present, and future. Through a combination of poetry and prose, Ghosts of Mr. Baker delves into the complexities of individual and interpersonal relationships, as well as our relationship with the natural world. Zaffino's writing is raw and emotional, capturing the essence of the human experience with a deft touch. At its core, Ghosts of Mr. Baker is a testament to the power of self-reflection and personal growth. Zaffino confronts the challenges of growing up head-on, offering readers a glimpse into the messy, beautiful, and ultimately rewarding journey of understanding oneself. Through his words, Zaffino invites us to embrace the shared experience of deeper understanding, and to find hope and beauty in the face of adversity. https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/ghosts-of-mr-baker-brian-zaffino/1143464555

QLPOR Presents James L. Rencher Jr. AKA Sir Lawrence

Tue, 29 Aug 2023 00:00:00 GMT

James L. Rencher Jr. AKA Sir Lawrence Sir Lawrence started writing in the early 2000s. He has also appeared and featured throughout the city of Houston while being a part of “Snow Industries” created by Black Snow the Poet. Then life got in the way, which stalled Sir Lawrence’s pen. In 2017 relocated back to Atlanta where he started back writing inspired after participating in platforms like Blog talk radio. Shortly thereafter he published his first book “When We Meet - Poems of Love “ which is a book of Love Poems.The following year Sir Lawrence published his second book “SIR ” which is a book of cultural awareness, consciousness and some sensuality for balance. Sir Lawrence has performed live here in Atlanta at the Apache XLR - Whiskey Wine and Words and The Soul Café; also a 3-city tour with the Gray Beard poets starting in Locust Grove, GA. - Memphis, TN. – Greenville, SC. My most recent appearance was at The Coffee Underground in Greenville, SC. Sir Lawrence is also a Culinary Artist shipping his Signature Pound cake coast to coast. https://instagram.com/sir_lawrence_poet https://facebook.com/rencherjames

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents William Washington

Wed, 09 Aug 2023 00:00:00 GMT

William Washington is a Native of Spanish Harlem New York City. He's an Established Spoken Storyteller/Author/Motivational Speaker & Activist. He's Performed Throughout The United States. His Goal in Life is To Heal The Brokenhearted with His Words. Books https://www.amazon.com/Broken-Book-Love-Given-Love-Taken/dp/B09X5RT8KF/ref=sr_1_2?qid=1691097670&refinements=p_27%3Awilliam+james+washington+sr.&s=books&sr=1-2 https://www.amazon.com/Nigger-Chronicles-William-Washington-ebook/dp/B00C9EWPSA/ref=sr_1_1?crid=P74DMU0BT0V3&keywords=william+james+Washington+the+nigger+chronicles&qid=1691097758&s=books&sprefix=william+james+washington+the+nigger+chronicles%2Cstripbooks%2C87&sr=1-1

QLPOR Presents John Guzlowski and Michael Lee Johnson

Wed, 26 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMT

The QLPOR podcast welcomes John Guzlowski and Michael Lee Johnson as esteemed guests. John Guzlowski brings a profound depth to his work, drawing inspiration from his family's history during World War II. His poems resonate with powerful reflections on war, survival, and the resilience of the human spirit. Michael Lee Johnson, a prolific writer and talented poet, has mesmerized audiences with his evocative verses that delve deep into the human experience, touching upon themes of love, loss, and introspection. His words have a unique ability to capture raw emotions and transport listeners to vivid landscapes of imagination. Both guests have an undeniable gift for crafting eloquent and thought-provoking poetry, and we eagerly anticipate the enriching conversation that will unfold as we explore the stories behind their literary works.

QLPOR Presents: A Friday Night Special Featuring Nicole Gillespie

Sat, 22 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMT

Author Nicole Gillespie of Kansas City, Mo., is the proud author of: Transparent Moments and Mirror’s Reflections. Gillespie’s books’ landed her The People Choice Awards for “Best Author” in her city and 5 star ratings via Amazon. Gillespie has been featured on Quintessential Listening: Poetry Radio online and she appeared twice as a guest panelist in P. English Literature Global Writers Conference, hosted by You-tuber, Peter Okonkwo of Akure, South Western part of Nigeria. She has also been featured in three magazines: ABE magazine “ All Black Everything” (Trish Mitchell, pub), “writing on the Wall Global magazine (Author Renee Drummond- Brown, pub) and Raven Cage Global magazine (Jerry Langdon, pub) Gillespie is known for her pathos writing style and she inks from the depths of her soul. Gillespie’s mission is to shake and move her readers through her body of literary works. Gillespie’s primary goal as a poet is to provoke thought, enlightenment and ultimately change, which hopefully gives her readers understanding, strength and the courage to press on once reading her work. Gillespie’s insightful work can also be followed on Instagram and You Tube: https://www.amazon.com/author/nicoleheartsdesire

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Jennifer M. Garnatz

Tue, 22 Aug 2023 00:00:00 GMT

Jennifer M. Garnatz was born in Lucea on the Caribbean Island of Jamaica in 1953. From the age of 4, she was raised in Kingston by her extremely strict single father. Her mother migrated to the UK. Due to his busy work schedule, he immediately placed her in a boarding school, later at diverse private homes. She was also boarded with the nuns at the Convent of Mercy Alpha Academy High School. Seeking independence after graduating, she pursued a secretarial course then worked as a legal assistant. Creative writing and composing songs have been her passion since early childhood, providing her soul with solace. Excepting her daily communication with God, growing up she had no one to confide in. The first 20 years of her life had its share of traumas, among them, six weeks before her 20th birthday seeing her father’s body lying in a pool of blood with a bullet hole in his head minutes after he was murdered by criminals. Suddenly, she was on her own. Independence came in an undesired manner. https://www.jennifergarnatz.com

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Siobhan Clover

Wed, 19 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMT

Siobhan Clover is a writer born and raised in Sussex County, Delaware and recently featured in the 2023 Delaware Bards Poetry Review. She first began her artistic journey in school plays starting at age nine, studying performance and theatrical production the entirety of her secondary education. Her first year of college at The George Washington University was interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. In isolation, she found an unparalleled adoration for poetry and prose, which gave her a method of expression that could not be compromised by the conditions of the external world. She enjoys experimentation and subversion in the form while operating with the philosophy to “find a new, interesting way to say something understood by the collective.” Her body of work tackles love, grief, psychology, magic, queerness, politics, and the beauty and horror of being alive, sometimes invoking older myths and stories to vocalize these themes. Her purpose in creation is to express her worldview in a way that provides solace and a call to action, even if the call is to just sit and feel. She looks forward to strengthening and diversifying her artistic voice in order to amplify the words and actions of the many that are working towards a better future. https://eclectic-elegies-poetry.com/ https://instagram.com/eclectic_elegies?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= Instrumental music: Creative Commons, Jason Shaw - LANDRAS DREAM.mp3

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Mark Fishbein

Wed, 12 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMT

Mark Fishbein (Poet With Guitar) was born in Brooklyn, NY. He got a BA in Literature from CCNY in 1970, and attended the Sorbonne in Paris for French Literature. Rejecting an academic life, he found a career in the flourishing screen printing and t-shirt dyeing industry, raising a family in NYC, always “with a book of poems in his pocket”. In 2018, Mark left the industry and immediately re-engaged with poetry. At this time, Mark has 5 books available on Amazon, including Stances, 2018 and an ekphrastic book Poems Hanging in a Wall (2020). He has published in a variety of publications from the Hill Rag to the American Atheist Magazine. His most recent work “Reflections in the Time of Trumpius Maximus,” a collection of 50 political poems written 2016-2021 (Atmosphere Press, 2021). He has also translated a collection by the French poet Paul Eluard. Online, Mark is host to weekly writers workshops, and a unique Zoom event, Planet Poetry 28, a monthly virtual magazine introducing poets from around the world who uniquely perform their poetry while showing the work on Share Screen. Mark is on the ExeCom of PGN-Poetry Global Network. He is Chancellor of “The Poetry Academy”, which offers workshops and study events focusing of subjects of interest to the modern Zoom generation of poets. Now retired, with a desire to teach poetry on the college level, Mark is currently enrolled in Columbia College, Chicago, for an MFA in Poetry, by Spring 2025. After decades of self-taught playing, Mark took up classical guitar in 2000 and currently plays professionally at art openings, poetry readings, weddings etc. He often combines his poetry reading with his eclectic music style. He now lives in Chicago with his wife Elaine, whom he met in a protest rally against the war in Vietnam. They have two sons and three grandchildren www.poetwithguitar.com.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Samuel Rain Benjamin

Thu, 29 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMT

Author/Poet Samuel Rain Benjamin aka Complicated Passions, creator of the Passions Private Collection and Dark Man Blues the series, has written over 40 books including “Love and the Conversation, The Clone in Me & The Foreplay Series” he has also performed across the country from Los Angeles to New York, notable places The World Stage, Sugar Hill, The Nuyorican Poets Café, Busboys & Poets, SWAAM, and da Poetry Lounge. He was also the host of The Griot Café in Long Beach and former host of a long running on air open mic on Blogtalk Radio One Positive Way Radio, Samuel has also produced Dark Man Blues a show that featured poets from around the world on The Book Slam. Samuel has also performed with the likes of Obbie West, Taalam Acey, 13ofNazareth, Lorenzo Word, shyybutflyy, Jaha Zainabu wah wah Washington and reaux fareal. He is also the co-founder of Innate Divinity Books a consulting and publishing company as well as GMG Staafly Productions LLC based in The Inland Empire of Southern California. His latest work is from the Dark Man Blues collection “John Bold released in March 2021 later this year he is set to release The Foreplay look inside” and in 2023 Dark Man Blues returns with “An Interview with Love” More titles will be released 2022 such as “A Prelude to Passion”, “Mischievous” and “My Future Seduction” part 1. Samuel is now on tour with the Gray Beards 22/23. https://www.darkmanblues.com/

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Francis DiClemente

Fri, 07 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMT

Francis DiClemente is an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker who lives in Syracuse, New York. He is the author of multiple poetry collections, most recently The Truth I Must Invent (Poets’ Choice, 2023) and Outward Arrangements: Poems (independently published, 2021). His writing has also appeared in Evening Street Review, Bewildering Stories, Narratively, The Millions, Artnet News, Film International, and in the books Air: A Radio Anthology (Books by Hippocampus, 2019), Chicken Soup for the Soul: Find Your Inner Strength (2014), and Six-Word Memoirs on Love and Heartbreak (Harper Perennial, 2009). He works full-time as a video producer at Syracuse University, and his blog can be found at francisdiclemente.com. Books https://www.amazon.com/stores/Francis-DiClemente/author/B00APRKRKQ?ref=ap_rdr&store_ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true Social Media https://twitter.com/FranDiClem https://www.instagram.com/francisdiclemente/ https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4588547/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Kwantum Peakz

Sun, 25 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMT

Kwantum Peakz (KP) is the moniker of an established slam poet who made his artistic debut in late 2018. He quickly became a regular mainstay at the Urban Legends Poetry Collective slam poetry and open mic events. They attracted a number of emerging slam poets as well as many of the finest and most seasoned artists in the field. It is there amongst his peers that KP soon realized that his style and delivery marked a stark contrast with what is more commonly viewed as slam poetry. Today, he is seen as well respected and valuable contributor to the local poetry scene. A native of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, he is arguably an unapologetically ‘vintage’ slam poet mixing some mature flair with an intellectually dynamic touch peppered with gritty verses, spirituality and raw imagery. He diligently continues to be an ”armchair student” of the craft while being an informal devoted teacher of the art form. As an artist, KP views the devotion to his work, not as a task, but as an act of service for communities at large. Kwantum was most notably featured at his book launch Up-close and Personal Interview, the B(l)ack to the Future Virtual Poetry Night as well as during a federal government lunchtime fireside chat series. In June 2022, Kwantum Peakz officially published his first poetry anthology entitled Liquid Sunshine in audiobook format currently on sale on over a dozen online distribution platform. https://inthacity.com/liquidsunshine https://www.kobo.com/ca/en/audiobook/liquid-sunshine-2 https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/liquid-sunshine-kwantum-peakz/1141914355?ean=2940175023979

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Proudly Presents Aaron Poochigian

Wed, 21 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMT

Aaron Poochigian earned a PhD in Classics from the University of Minnesota and an MFA in Poetry from Columbia University. His thriller in verse, Mr. Either/Or, was released by Etruscan Press in the fall of 2017, and the sequel, Mr. Either/Or: All the Rage, is out this June. A recipient of an NEA Grant in translation, he has published translations with Penguin Classics and W. W. Norton. His latest collection of poetry, American Divine, the winner of the Richard Wilbur Award, came out in 2021. His other poetry collections are Manhattanite (Able Muse Press, 2017), winner of the 2016 Able Muse Book Award, and The Cosmic Purr (Able Muse Press, 2012). His work has appeared in such publications as Best American Poetry, the Paris Review and POETRY. https://www.aaronpoochigian.com https://twitter.com/Poochigian https://www.facebook.com/aaron.poochigian/

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Proudly Presents Jerry Lovelady

Tue, 20 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMT

Jerry Lovelady is an American poet, a Texas native living in Beaumont, Texas where he teaches High School English. He is married to his lovely wife of 27 years, Kristi, who is the subject of many of his poems. Jerry has two books out, the first in 2021 titled Other Worlds, in Other Words and Grief and Her Three Sisters published in November, 2022. Both were published by the independent publisher Atmosphere Press. Lovelady draws much of his inspiration from the "Mystic" poets: Walt Whitman, Emily Dickenson, and Robert Frost who got their inspirations from Nature and man interacting in spiritual ways which they recognized as important. Frost, in particular, impressed Lovelady early on with his amazing rhyming ability and the quaint, down to earth characters he wrote about. Lovelady is prone to personify the stars, the rivers and mountains in much of his poetry to good effect. He believes Nature has much to teach us if we would only listen and open our eyes to what is going on around us. Lovelady has lived in Florida, New Jersey, California, Georgia, and Arizona and is just as at home in a large city urban environment as he is on a river bank in the woods. He and his wife are well travelled enjoying their trips to Europe.They equally enjoy relaxing at their rustic cabin on the Sabine River in deep East Texas which has been a source of inspiration to Lovelady for two decades. Lovelady began writing poetry in 1997, working sporadically until he accumulated enough to publish in 2020. He is currently working on his third book of poems which should be ready to publish by the end of 2023. https://jerryloveladypoetry.com https://instagram.com/loveladyjerry https://facebook.com/lovelady_jerry

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Ryan Quinn Flanagan

Fri, 16 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMT

Ryan Quinn Flanagan is a Canadian-born author living in Elliot Lake, Ontario, Canada with his wife and many bears that rifle through his garbage. His works can be found both in print and online in such places as: Evergreen Review, The New York Quarterly, Cultural Weekly, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, and The Oklahoma Review. Amazon.com: Kiss the Heathens: 9798986109367: Flanagan, Ryan Quinn, McDannold, Michele: Books

Paradise Lost/Paradise Regained: The Role of Poetry in Mental Health Awareness

Thu, 01 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMT

Poetry plays a vital role in mental health awareness by providing a creative outlet for individuals to express their emotions and experiences related to mental health. It offers a means of self-expression and catharsis, allowing individuals to process their feelings and promote their overall well-being. Through personal poems, poetry helps break the stigma surrounding mental health, humanizing the experiences and encouraging open conversations. It creates a sense of community, connecting individuals with similar struggles, fostering support and understanding. Poetry also educates and raises awareness about mental health conditions, dispelling misconceptions and promoting empathy. Its emotional resonance fosters empathy and a deeper understanding of mental health complexities. Poetry empowers individuals, inspiring them to find their voice and demonstrate resilience, while showing others that recovery and growth are possible. Poetry contributes to a compassionate and understanding society through its role in mental health awareness. "Paradise Lost" for many brings back memories of reading John Milton's epic poem written in 1667. Milton's poem explores morality, humanity, and man's fall. These same words can also serve as a metaphor for the feelings of guilt, despair, and inner turmoil that can exist when people are faced with mental health issues. As a companion poem to "Paradise Lost," "Paradise Regained" (1671) explores themes of redemption, temptation, and the triumph of good over evil. It is also possible to use the words Paradise Regained metaphorically to describe the sense of fulfillment people experience when they are able to cope with and manage mental health issues through constructive means. Featured Poets: Ahmad Alkhatat, Skaja Evens, Benjamin Cherif-Goldberg, Richard Harries, Jessica Philie Park, Nicholas Michael Ravnikar, Lisa Simmons and David Thurston.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Megan Wildhood

Wed, 31 May 2023 00:00:00 GMT

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Anne Marie Wells

Thu, 25 May 2023 00:00:00 GMT

A little about my book My book, Survived By, chronicles my experience coping with my father's terminal cancer diagnosis, his death, and my subsequent grief journey. The poems vary visually, utilizing the ribcage form invented by Athena Liu, concrete poetry, and white space. A little about me I am a faculty member for the Community Literature Initiative through the Sims Library of Poetry and Strategic Partnership Fellow for The Poetry Lab. I was a finalist for the inaugural Emma Howell Rising Poet Award, was the winner of the 2021 Crow House Press Poetry Competition, and earned the 2021 Peter K. Hixson Memorial award in poetry presented by Writer's Relief. I received the 2020 Milestone Award presented by Wyoming Writers, Inc., and the 2020 Rising Star Award presented by the Jackson Hole Chamber of Commerce. I was a 2021 Wyoming Women of Influence nominee in the arts category for amplifying the voices of the LGBTQ and disabled communities through my writing. (If you're curious to know even more, I have my full bio on my website annemariewellswriter.com/bio). https://www.annemariewellswriter.com https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/survived-by-anne-marie-wells/1143377768 https://www.instagram.com/annemariewellswriter https://www.facebook.com/annemariewellswriter https://www.youtube.com/annemariewellswriter

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Diana Benskin

Tue, 23 May 2023 00:00:00 GMT

I was born Wavyne Diana Benskin in Trinidad and Tobago to Barbadian parents. I am a graduate of Curepe Junior Secondary and St Augustine Girls High School. A graduate of Mercy College. A recipient of Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing Fellowship. A Scholarship of Community Literature Initiative California. Best Spoken Word Artiste, CHub Magazine London. Global Ambassador Divas of Color. Co host WZYEFM 95.9 in NJ. I love to karaoke. https://trinidadexpress.com/features/local/words-of-empowerment/article_f2508e1e-ffea-11ec-828c-2f0d6d93a595.html https://trinidadexpress.com/once-upon-a-pandemic/image_8de4a964-ffeb-11ec-9f8b-5bdc58c2d289.html

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Ellen Thea

Fri, 19 May 2023 00:00:00 GMT

Ellen Thea is an award winning performance poet, drummer, dancer, and holistic counselor, utilizing tarot, astrology, crystals and energy work. Her life’s journey has taken her from New York City to South Florida to rural Alaska. She has been writing and performing almost her entire life, learning to write and starting dance at age 4 with her first audition (on Broadway) at age 5, writing, directing and performing original sketches by third grade. Growing up in the cultural wonderland of NYC in the 50’s, 60’s, and 70’s, Ellen decided to use words and movement as both her paintbrush and medium. Ellen received a bachelor’s degree (B.S.) in Psychology with an (almost) minor degree in theatre from Union College, Schenectady, NY in 1978. Her master’s degree is from Nova Southeastern University, Davie, Florida 1996 in Marriage and Family Therapy with a specialization in medical family therapy. After college, Ellen moved to South Florida where she had her three children (now adults). After suffering a head injury from a vicious mugging, she heeded the counsel of a Cherokee medicine woman, who sent her to Alaska for a healing walk in 2004. She’s made her home in rural Alaska ever since. Her awards: Bitterroot Poetry Magazine Award 1986, the Douglas Freels Poetry Award 2002, the Dancing Poetry Competition 2013, and the Poetry Matters Award 2014. Her book, “On My Way To The Apocalypse” (a non-linear 55 page prose poem) was published by Dingaroo Press in 2012 (That same year Ellen became a grandmother). She’s created and performed her original works (full shows and as a featured artist) in Florida, Ohio, New York, Michigan, and Alaska. Her work (both writing and esoteric) has been featured on various radio programs. She’s also been a news reader and d.j. on the local radio station in Alaska. Ellen has also created a number of specialized curriculums and workshops for children through adult learners.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Freddy Niagara Fonseca

Wed, 17 May 2023 00:00:00 GMT

Freddy Niagara Fonseca, Renaissance man, poet, dramatic reader, originally from South America, has authored two poetry books. The first one, a poetry anthology, This Enduring Gift - A Flowering of Fairfield Poetry was published in 2010. His second book, a mystical and humorous poetry collection, The Bomb That Blew Up God And Other Serious Poems featuring his own poems, saw the light ten years later in 2020. Freddy has performed in public numerous times in his own Candlelight Reading Series, presenting multi-faceted World Poetry events of all eras and cultures with the collaboration of musicians, dancers, actors and expressive readers. Quite favorably reviewed in BookLife by Publishers Life, The Bomb That Blew Up God was listed in a Notable Iowa Books column of the Spring 2021 edition of Ottumwa Life. These days you can frequently hear him reciting at various Zoom open mic venues. He lives in Fairfield, Iowa.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Meghan Zipin

Tue, 16 May 2023 00:00:00 GMT

Meghan Zipin is an author and mama who shares her time writing with discovering half eaten snacks around the house and ensuring her children stay little for as long as possible. Meghan’s debut poetry collection, First Light (2023, Nymeria Publishing), follows her path from the Boston Marathon bombing to the birth of her third son nine years later. Meghan writes with an intention to make her readers feel something in their body and asks them to look at the world with a tender set of eyes. Meghan received her MBA from Boston College and her Masters in physical therapy from Northeastern University. She now lives on eleven acres in New Hampshire with her husband, three curly haired boys and their dog Oona. https://www.meghanzipin.com https://www.amazon.com/First-Light-Meghan-Zipin/dp/B0BP9VT1C3 https://instagram.com/mismegs82?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= https://www.facebook.com/meghan.zipin?mibextid=LQQJ4d https://www.linkedin.com/in/meghan-delaney-zipin-51851a35

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Dr. Hiram Larew

Thu, 11 May 2023 00:00:00 GMT

Founder of Poetry X Hunger: Bringing a World of Poetry to the Anti-Hunger Cause, Larew has also published poetry in places including Contemporary American Voices and Best Poetry Online. His most recent collection, Patchy Ways, was published in 2023 by CyberWit Press. He lives in Maryland, USA. https://www.amazon.com/Books-Hiram-Larew/s?rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3AHiram+Larew https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100084745897034 https://www.poetryxhunger.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/hiram-larew-4031b411/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eS2HvjjuM-Y

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Karen Poppy

Tue, 09 May 2023 00:00:00 GMT

A non-binary poet, Karen Poppy’s debut full-length poetry collection, Diving at the Lip of the Water, is forthcoming in 2023 with Beltway Editions. Her chapbooks Crack Open / Emergency (2020) and Our Own Beautiful Brutality (2021) are both published by Finishing Line Press. Her chapbook, Every Possible Thing, is published by Homestead Lighthouse Press (2020). An attorney licensed in California and Texas, Karen Poppy lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. https://karenpoppy.com/ https://m.facebook.com/KarenPoppyPage/ https://www.amazon.com/Diving-Lip-Water-Karen-Poppy/dp/1957372036

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Lisa Marie Simmons

Sun, 18 Jun 2023 17:00:00 GMT

Lisa is a multi-disciplinary storyteller. She is a singer/songwriter (Ropeadope Records), essayist (Huffington Post, Kweli Journal, Family Stories Project, Chicken Soup for the Soul, AfroElle), and published poet currently based in Italy. The American debut of NoteSpeak was at the Zee Jaipur Literature Festival in Boulder Co. in September 2017. She was invited to be a speaker and performer at the 70th Conference on World Affairs at the University of Colorado in April 2018. In November 2019, she presented NoteSpeak (Amore e Tragedie in Musica) in Italy, Austria, and Prague. In January 2020, she presented NoteSpeak in India on the Jaipur Music Stage. Ropeadope Records released her poetic/musical album NoteSpeak (Amori e Tragedie in Musica) in March 2020, which received a four-star review from the iconic Downbeat magazine. In October 2021, she flew to Florida to search for her birth father - Angela Tucker, and her Emmy Award-winning husband, Bryan Tucker, shot a documentary about the search Lisa & Isell: A story about adoption and the Ghost Kingdom, which premiered on June 22, 2022. Angela and Lisa co-wrote an essay advocating for the rights of Black fathers for the Harvard Law Bill of Health digital symposium in May 2022. Her jazz standards album Lisa Meets Gianni with the legendary Gianni Cazzola was released on June 10, 2022, on Ropeadope Records. She was invited to participate in the Biennale in Venice in October 2022 for artist Simone Leigh's Loophole of Retreat. Her poem “Last Supper” was shortlisted for a Creators of Justice Literary Award in November 2022. Her new album NoteSpeak (Dodici), will be released by Ropeadope Records in February 2023. She is currently at work on a fictional memoir.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Regina YC Garcia

Thu, 04 May 2023 00:00:00 GMT

Regina YC Garcia is a Poet, Language Artist, and English Professor from Greenville, NC. A graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill (BA) and East Carolina University (MAEd) with a Graduate Certificate in Multicultural and Transnational Literature, her work has appeared in a variety of journals,reviews,and anthologies, to include The AutoEthnographer, the South Florida Poetry Journal, Up the Staircase Quarterly, New Note Poetry, The Amistad, The Main Street Rag, The Book of Black, Black and…, and numerous others. Her work has also been featured in a Mid-South Emmy Award winning episode of PBS' Muse featuring "The Black Light Project" (UNC TV), as well as the Sacred Nine Project of Tulane University. She is the author of The Firetalker's Daughter published by Finishing Line Press in March 2023. Firetalker's Daughter https://a.co/d/9SoA1E9 https://www.profesoragina.com https://twitter.com/profesoragina?t=7YMF2ZnGrCjmDr7Q2taAMA&s=09 https://www.facebook.com/regina.y.garcia?mibextid=ZbWKwL https://www.linkedin.com/in/regina-garcia-126370b

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Skaja Evens

Wed, 26 Apr 2023 00:00:00 GMT

Skaja Evens is a writer and artist living in Southeast Virginia. She edits It Takes All Kinds, a litzine published by Mōtus Audāx Press. She’s been published in Spillwords Press, The Dope Fiend Daily, The Rye Whiskey Review, Medusa's Kitchen, Synchronized Chaos, Blue Pepper, Ink Pantry, Off The Coast, Black Shamrock, and The Crossroads Lit Magazine. She often listens to music, considers the impossible, and enjoys her cats’ antics.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Nayma Chamchoun

Sat, 22 Apr 2023 18:00:00 GMT

Nayma Chamchoun is a British Moroccan, a self taught writer and poet. Her writing is influenced by her cultural duality. She is interested in female voices in the diaspora community, the challenges they face within both communities and the taboos around mental health within their ancestral communities. She is an active member of british & international poetry community. Her published poetry collection COVID: THE WORDY WILDS OF A MIND UNDER LOCKDOWN is a cultural fusion poetry collection which explores themes of identity, duality, displacement, loss, race, feminism, culture, family, love and the search for inner peace as experienced alongside the effects of mental health, menopause, the pandemic and world events. https://www.amazon.com/Covid-Wordy-Wilds-Under-Lockdown/dp/1869848314/ref=sr_1_4?qid=1664579796&refinements=p_n_publication_date%3A1250228011&s=books&sr=1-4 https://www.facebook.com/N.Chamchoun https://twitter.com/NChamchoun https://www.instagram.com/n.chamchoun/

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Wyatt Welch

Fri, 21 Apr 2023 00:00:00 GMT

Wyatt Welch grew up on the Interstates after being kidnapped by their father, a troubled veteran of the Vietnam War. A Floridian and long-time Tucsonan, questioning the boundaries of Self and the State has been the work of their recent poetry, alongside other poetic concerns such as living gay/transgender in the United States. Welch earned their MA in Linguistics from the University of Florida and has been published in various journals. Their debut book of poetry, Capitalism Calls Poetry Lazy, was released in 2022 by FlowerSong Press. https://wyattwelch.org/ Amazon.com: Capitalism Calls Poetry Lazy: 9781953447586: Welch, Wyatt: Books https://www.instagram.com/poetrywyattwelch/

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Desiree Batiste

Wed, 19 Apr 2023 00:00:00 GMT

Desiree Batiste is a newly emerging published poet and author. She has been writing poetry since she was 9 years old, when she was first published in a small locally distributed newspaper for children. She had one of her poems published in Poetry.com's "Best Poems and Poets of 2003" compilation. Her goal is to become a full-time author, focusing on the genres of poetry, psychological thriller fiction and the finalization of her autobiography. She also hopes to take a story she wrote when she was a child, and refine it into a children's book that they would be delighted to read. She was inspired to start writing poetry regularly just before a dark time in her life, and continued to write and create poems throughout that time and forward through the last 27 years. She has survived child abuse, a suicide attempt, multiple domestic violence relationships and the passing of her father...and walked away from all of it stronger. She was told by many professors in college that she was destined to be a writer and had the gift of the written word. She graduated summa cum laude with her Bachelors of Science in Technical Management with Criminal Justice specialization in October of 2020. Desiree is a life-long native of Arizona, and currently lives in Buckeye. She lives with her husband, Michael, her daughter Kaylee and their 3 cats. She enjoys writing, and uses it as her primary form of emotional expression. Poetry should be as much of a stress reliever for the reader as it is a stress release for the writer. Desiree also enjoys singing, dancing, playing the drums, keyboard and guitar. Her one hope as she builds her writing career is that she can achieve a true human connection with her readers that profoundly affects them in a positive way. Desiree feels that to uplift, inspire, enlighten and entertain are some of the best things which authors are privileged enough to share with the world.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Catherine Vaughan

Sun, 16 Apr 2023 18:00:00 GMT

Catherine Vaughan is a British Poet based in England and the author of the poetry book Bohemian Love. She has performed poetry at The Times and Sunday Times Cheltenham Literary Festival and Brooklyn Poets. Catherine has also read for online poetry events such as Cobalt Poets in LA, New York Public Library, and Lime Square Poets in Ireland. Lovers in Paris, her next poetry book, will be released later this year. Catherine is also working on a novel called Welcome to Wonderland. https://www.amazon.com/Bohemian-Love-Catherine-Vaughan/dp/0993408923

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Fareh Malik

Sun, 16 Apr 2023 00:00:00 GMT

Fareh Malik is a BIPOC artist from Hamilton, Ontario, as well as a seasoned spoken word poet and established author. Fareh was named the 2022 RBC PEN Canada New Voices Award winner. He was also the winner of Hamilton Art’s Shirley Elford Prize, The 2022 October Project Poetry Award, and MH Canada's 2020 Poetry Contest. Fareh's debut book Streams That Lead Somewhere was published in 2022 with Mawenzi House Publishers. Fareh was named a finalist for the 2021 Best of the Net anthology, and was honoured with the 2021 Garden Project grant to explore interdisciplinary work. His individual works have been published by literary presses all around the world. Fareh’s work has been described as critical, yet sanguine; poetry that often explores the intersection of racialization and mental illness, while maintaining a silver lining on its horizon. He loves to tell the story of his struggle, and of his community around him, in the hope that others can find inspiration and companionship in it. Fareh is currently a poet and author, working on his second collection. https://www.amazon.com/Streams-that-Somewhere-Fareh-Malik/dp/177415076X/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1681004313&sr=8-1

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents David Leo Sirois

Thu, 13 Apr 2023 00:00:00 GMT

David Leo Sirois is a Canadian-American poet published 142 times, in 24 countries. His work has been translated into 12 languages (Hindi, Bengali, Nepali, French, German, Czech, Spanish, Greek, Romanian, Chinese, Turkish, & Doric). He hosts Spoken World Online, the Zoom continuation of SpokenWord Paris. His first collection is called Humbledoves (poems to pigeons & plants). He won Third Prize in Winning Writers' Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest. Sirois is a member of the Academy of American Poets, & the Writers International Capital Foundation, & has been honored for his “contribution to world literature” by The Fertile Brains, a renowned literary group in India. His poetry has appeared in journals such as The Bombay Review, The Poetry Village, One Hand Clapping, Indian Periodical, The Sunday Tribune Online, THE BASTILLE, the Madras Courier, & Terre à Cièl (which also published his translations from the French). David is often featured at global events, such as the Panorama International Literature Festival, & 100 Thousand Poets for Change, as well as in many international podcasts & interviews. He is also a singer/songwriter, radio DJ, & a film/TV/theater actor. He is currently submitting 5 finished manuscripts for publication, & writing several more. https://www.amazon.com/humbledoves-David-Leo-Sirois/dp/1777437911/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680733828&sr=8-1

QLPOR Presents A Late Night Poetry Special featuring Chayyim Eliezer Ben Israel

Sun, 09 Apr 2023 03:00:00 GMT

Words from Chayyim Eliezer Ben Israel: Born in Austin Tx. Raised in Los Angeles California, I had the taste to entertain at a very young age. Obtained writing and theatrical passion following my mother Elsie Katie Spruill. Began writing poetry in my early teens. Found a perfect match with poetry and music. https://amazon.com/hebruise https://instagram.com/clearmental https://facebook.com/clearmentalmusic

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Bill Cushing

Thu, 20 Apr 2023 00:00:00 GMT

Bill Cushing lived in various states, the Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico before moving to California where he resides with his wife and their son. Returning to college after serving in the Navy and working on ships, he was called the “blue collar poet” by his peers at the University of Central Florida. He later earned an MFA from Goddard College. Published in journals and anthologies, online and in print, Bill has four complete collections; his first book, A Former Life, was honored by a Kops-Fetherling International Book Award; Music Speaks won Spectrum’s San Gabriel Valley chapbook award in 2019 and a New York City Book Award in 2021. His last chapbook , . . .this just in. . ., combines selected writings with visual art. Bill’s new book, Just a Little Cage of Bone, was released by Southern Arizona Press in February. Just a Little Cage of Bone: Collected Poems: Cushing, Bill, Gilliland, Paul: 9781960038104: Amazon.com: Books

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Anastasia Lindsey

Tue, 04 Apr 2023 00:00:00 GMT

ANASTASIA LINDSEY is a timeless soul and author who participates in inter-dimensional traveling and building beautiful poems to capture the hearts of souls around the world in the most loving and supportive ways possible. Sensitive in nature and sweet in soul – she brings a powerful sense of calmness to her work, and most importantly to her words. She has spent most of her life traveling the endless twists and turns of her imagination to create beautiful poems. Anastasia has been writing since grade school and has always used empathy, pain, and—most importantly—love as her muse to write poems that help others heal. She specializes in highlighting one’s broken pieces to make something unique and comforting within oneself – and most importantly helps others to view themselves as a work of art. This humble writer was born and raised in a small town of Illinois where she currently resides in a beautiful, cozy little house on a patch of land with the love of her life, Dakota. Although an author, she is also the owner of a small business, Summer Solace Holistic Healing & Poetry, where she uses different modalities to help others heal, including Reiki, Meditation, Sound Healing, Hypnosis, and has recently started her journey into Shamanism. When she is not writing or crafting her small business, Anastasia spends her time dreaming, painting, drawing, designing, and singing. She even auditioned for The Voice in 2017. Her angelic soul and empathetic nature make her one of a kind in this world. Anastasia’s words take you on many journeys with the strong hope of allowing you to return home, safe and in love.https://www.summersolacehealing.com “OCEAN is one of the most unique poetry collections I’ve ever read” – Lindsay Crandall, Independent Book Review

QLPOR Presents From Whence We Came: Women in Poetry

Thu, 16 Mar 2023 00:00:00 GMT

From Whence We Came: Women in Poetry is presented by Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio (www.qlpor.com) in honor of National Women's History Month. This event will feature readings by Valeri Beers, Linda Imbler, Gerry Leonard LaGuardia, and Linda Ohlson Graham and a discussion of the role of women in poetry. The From Whence We Came phrase is from remarks made by John F. Kennedy at the Dinner for America's Cup Crews on September 14 1962. Biographies https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/67595793/qlpor-presents-from-whence-we-came-women-in-poetry

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Alexandra Psaropoulou

Sun, 05 Mar 2023 15:00:00 GMT

Alexandra was born in the year of the horse of fire, in Greece, where she spent many years living in the wild mountains of the island of Hydra. Later, she attended St. Mary's in Wiltshire and studied European Thought & Literature at Anglia Ruskin in Cambridge. She lived in Paris and New York, before returning to Greece to settle. Her father was a renowned poet and author and had a successful publishing company in Greece. Her mother was a ballet dancer as well as president of the Dance Union in Greece. Her family social circles, ever since a little girl, were rich with artists, writers, and academics. She lives with her husband, a classical guitar soloist and four children near the Temple of Poseidon, Sounio, by the sea and publishes her own visual poems on Amazon. Each of Alexandra's books is a symphony composed of a long poem accompanied by her graphic illustrations that convey “The Flying”. alexandrabooks.info

QLPOR Presents "Collective Voices" Now and Then - 25 Years Since London

Sun, 05 Mar 2023 01:00:00 GMT

The Washington, DC-based ensemble of poets known for its messages of inspiration, empowerment, and social consciousness has performed locally and abroad. Collective Voices' international debut was in London, England, in 1998. Founded in 1995, the group’s current members include Sylvia Dianne "Ladi Di" Beverly, Andre "Brenardo" Taylor, and the group’s founder, J. Joy "Sistah Joy" Matthews Alford, who was appointed as Poet Laureate of Prince George’s County, MD, in 2018. In addition to performing their original poetry, the group presents poetry workshops and coordinates arts-oriented activities throughout the Washington Metropolitan region. Of note, the group presented an annual arts-based tribute, Poetry Extravaganza, for 20 years, honoring the life and legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The event was presented annually at the downtown Washington, DC-based Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library, which was attended by hundreds each year. Collective Voices has self-published 2 chapbooks, Poetry and Prose For A New Millennium (2000) and Experience, Expression, Expansion (1996), and its members have published 6 individual books of poetry. Collective Voices' poetry has also appeared in numerous anthologies. The group and individual members of the group have received numerous awards and recognitions for artistic excellence, community service, and literary activism, including the 2002 Poet Laureate Special Award from the DCCAH for "outstanding contributions to the art of poetry in Washington, DC." With its debut performance at a women's shelter, Collective Voices has continued its socially-relevant presentations at numerous churches, schools, galleries, youth and senior support facilities and organizations, and at various regional, national, and international conferences and conventions. To Book, contact Sistah Joy at P. O. Box 2073, Clinton, MD 20735, or Poetsistahjoy@aol.com.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Kwame Sound Daniels

Thu, 16 Feb 2023 01:00:00 GMT

Kwame Sound Daniels is a black trans, disabled fiber and traditional artist based out of Maryland, USA. Xe are currently pursuing an MFA at Vermont College of Fine Arts. Xir first book, Light Spun, is out with Perennial Press as of August of last year. the pause and the breath was released with Atmosphere Press January 25th of this year. Xe like to learn plant medicine and learn digital art in xir spare time. https://www.kwamesounddaniels.com/ https://www.instagram.com/the.okra.winfrey/ https://atmospherepress.com/books/the-pause-and-the-breath-by-kwame-sound-daniels/ https://www.amazon.sg/pause-breath-Kwame-Sound-Daniels/dp/1639884122

QLPOR Presents Pam Hasan AKA Poetic Hummingbird - Melodies of Love

Tue, 14 Feb 2023 01:00:00 GMT

Poetic Hummingbird (Pam Hasan) is a passionate, inspirational poet. Writing poetry gives her a sense of self and freedom. Expressing her thoughts through poetry allows her to bleed her emotions on paper and heal from the darkest places that life can take you. Poetic Hummingbird (Pam Hasan) poetically weaves words together to encourage her readers to pause and reflect on their experiences with love, grief, abuse, self-worth, and pain. Poetic Hummingbird hopes her poetry inspires others and gives them a second chance at changing the narrative and understanding new perspectives. She believes, "If you don't know who you are, other people's opinions of you will leave you scarred." Poetic Hummingbird (Pam Hasan) holds a master's degree in Business Administration with a concentration in Human Resources Management. Poetic Hummingbird (Pam Hasan) is a creative spirit. She uses innovative thinking to create unique businesses that solve everyday problems. With a passion for entrepreneurship, she is the founder of Widows Closets, Sisterhood In Solidarity, and Agape Inspires. With poetry being her 1st language, she also incorporates it into business. When Poetic Hummingbird (Pam Hasan) is not busy reading or writing poetry, she can be found watching beautiful sunsets with her fiance.' Are you in need of a daily jolt of positivity? Follow Poetic Hummingbird on Facebook or Instagram, where she spreads messages about self-love and positivity through poetry. Follow Poetic Hummingbird and connect with her through poetry. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/poetichummingbirdpoetry Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/poetichummingbirdpoetry YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@poetichummingbirdpoetry Website: http://www.poetichummingbirdpoetry.com "When the pain cuts deep, I bleed my emotions through poetry."

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Lydia Brown

Tue, 21 Feb 2023 01:00:00 GMT

Lydia Brown was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. When she was younger, she dreamed of becoming a singer. She grew up with humble beginnings on the southside with her mom and dad. Tragically, at the age of eleven, her father died of leukemia. Her mother was left alone to care for her. They had their ups and downs and struggles, but they loved each other. As a teenager, she reached a point where she wanted to explore her surroundings and get away from the stresses of life. She ran away from home as a coping mechanism to deal with these issues. She found herself downtown, on the streets of Chicago. Over time, she began to like the area and slowly felt comfortable; this is where she indeed grew up a second time and learned to love herself. She panhandled to survive and met people from all walks of life. They looked out for her and tried to get her off the streets by providing a hotel room to sleep in, where she could be safe. She met many people that cared and truly wanted the best for her; her dreams were encouraged. Those people still have a special place in her heart, and she will always have fond memories of them for being there when she needed help. She started writing at the age of 26. At first, she wrote for fun but soon discovered writing was therapeutic and provided an escape, carrying her away from everyday worries. She began to take writing more seriously, so she wrote more and saved her work. https://awritersmind21.wixsite.com/my-site https://www.instagram.com/authorlydiabrown/ https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100087518989529

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents C.C. Arshagra

Sun, 22 Jan 2023 01:00:00 GMT

Arshagra is an autodidact raised in his grandfather Arshag’s garden. Arshag, an Armenian genocide survivor, taught him profound attitudes of benevolence: no hate, no enemy, no blame and no vengeance. He spent many years in Boston and Cambridge – urban areas that nourish the voices of emerging poets and encourage free speech as a common language, free of social and cultural dichotomies. His journey of transcendence drew strength from the improvisational movement and healing arts, and constantly renews itself with profound commitment to indivisible love. In more recent years, his writing has been complemented by work on websites that serve free speech and humanitarian goals. Recognized as one of the most dedicated poets on the open microphone circuit, C.C. Arshagra received a Boston award for participating in the most open mikes in 2000. He is the author of Emotional Geography, Poems, Scared Sacred, Death of an Ego, What Manner of Character, and without returning to publishing he has not stopped writing for 20 years, including lyrics, YA and works for children. He founded the poetry art band Funk Physics, and is a veteran of both the improvisational movement arts and improvising live to jazz with the Jeff Robinson Trio with bassist Blake Newman, Ken Field’s Board of Education and Michael Caglianone’s Zen Bastards. His live improvisations include ID Poems, “inkless dialogue” work that exists in sound form only. He also has produced many radio and video shows for broadcast, including Stone Soup Poetry, The I Do Not Know Show and other eclectic A/V art projects. Arshagra walks the walk, speaks soul to soul and is humbled by life as an artist. His canvas of creativity is expansive and his favorite mantra is “Love is not afraid.”

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Julian Matthews

Tue, 24 Jan 2023 01:00:00 GMT

JULIAN MATTHEWS is a writer expressing himself in the pandemic through poetry, short stories and essays. He is published in The American Journal of Poetry, Borderless Journal, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, The New Verse News, Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Live Encounters, among others. He is a mixed-race minority from Malaysia. More of his recent work can be found below: https://linktr.ee/julianmatthews and here https://trinetizen.com/poetry and his Paypal account is trinetizen@gmail.com

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Christy Sawyer

Thu, 26 Jan 2023 01:00:00 GMT

Christy Sawyer is an educator and a writer, who lives in Maryland. She was a shy girl who discovered she could use her pen to give voice to her thoughts. As she began to answer the call to pick up the mic, she gathered the strength to tell her story and the stories of the unvoiced. She is excited to publish her first book in 2023: A Delicate Rose with Thorns. A book about the mundane, magnificent, and all things in between shared in six word stories, haikus and free verse. Ms. Sawyer is a winner of The Haiku Guys’ 2019 National Poetry Month Contest and a member of a myriad of poetry groups, including the Quintessential Listening Poetry Group. As a native of Natchitoches (Na-kuh-tish) Louisiana, Christy‘s writings are often infused with the rich gumbo of the region. Her simple introduction: I am from Earnest I am from Sadie I am from go upside dey head I am from act like a lady I am from Daddy’s Girl I am from Mama’s Baby I am from Earnest I am from Sadie © 2022

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Nicholas Michael Ravnikar

Wed, 25 Jan 2023 01:00:00 GMT

Nicholas Michael Ravnikar put the overt in overthinking. He is the originator of the new, obsessive poetic form called the Polish octave. He has self-published two collections of poetry, "Imaginary Friends" in July 2022 and "Three Dirty Sunsets" on December 1, 2022. He challenged himself to release four free full-length poetry collections during the month of January and hopes to keep up a frenzied pace leading up to the release of a complete book of Polish Octaves in 2023. Moria Press published and mailed a hard copy of his long poem, "Liberal Elite Media Rag. SAD!" to the White House for inclusion in the presidential library. His poems have appeared in venues like Sawbuck, Otoliths, BlazeVox, and more recently in Black Stone on a White Stone and Superpresent. His book reviews have appeared at New Pages.com. In addition, he has also started Paper::Knives poetry projects, the latest incarnation of small press publishing efforts, with the mission of increasing public analysis, interpretation, and critique of poetry. He holds an MFA in creative writing from Naropa University's Jack Kerouac School of Poetics and taught for 9 years as a college professor after moonlighting as a video producer and nonprofit arts facilitator until leaving a full-time liberal arts lectureship at a state university in order to repair bathtubs. Living with Borderline Personality Disorder, ADHD and Dysthymia-Persistent depression, he has been sober since 2011 and raises two children with his spouse in Racine, WI. Download his books for free at or bio.fm/nicholasmichaelravnikar or submit your work for publication by Paper::Knives at www.paperknives.art Amazon.com: Imaginary Friends: Poems eBook : Ravnikar, Nicholas : Books

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Deelynn Leigh

Thu, 19 Jan 2023 01:00:00 GMT

Deelynn Leigh was born in South Boston, Virginia, and grew up with her family in Carson City, Nevada. As a young girl, she engulfed her life with athletics and outdoor activities. For relaxation, she found her gift for writing while creating short stories. In grade school, she wrote her first haiku poem, which ignited her love for poetry and the ability to utilize words and strategic rhythms to express herself. Throughout the course of her life, she shared her poetry through spoken word opportunities from private to public stages and published independent works across various poetic volumes. Deelynn attended George Mason University, where she earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology and English with a concentration in Poetry. Immediately following, she obtained her Master of Arts degree in Religious Education from Liberty University. Deelynn is very passionate about her faith in God through Jesus Christ and seeks to create poetry that glorifies God and encourages others. Her purpose in life is to spread the Word of God to all, striving to do this effectively through her written words. Her poems are a testimony of God’s love, His mercy, and His grace. One of her most motivated scriptures is Jeremiah 29:11 “For I know the plans I have for you declares the Lord, plans to make you prosper and not to harm you, to give you hope and a future.” She is published in various magazines and poetic collections. She has written one book, Lift Up: Inspirational Poems & Devotions and her new book, Reverence, will be published in January 2023. https://instagram.com/deepoeticleigh https://facebook.com/deelynnleigh

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Fran Abrams

Fri, 20 Jan 2023 01:00:00 GMT

Fran Abrams’ poems have been published online and in print in Delmarva Review, The American Journal of Poetry, The Raven’s Perch, Gargoyle 74, and other journals, and in over a dozen anthologies. In 2019, she read at Houston (TX) Poetry Fest and at DiVerse Gaithersburg (MD) Poetry Series. In December 2021, she won the Washington Writers Publishing House Winter Poetry Prize. Her autobiographical book of poems titled “I Rode the Second Wave: A Feminist Memoir,” was released in November 2022. Her chapbook, “The Poet Who Loves Pythagoras,” (Finishing Line Press) will be released in March 2023. Please visit franabramspoetry.com. I Rode the Second Wave: A Feminist Memoir is an autobiographical story told in poetry through the eyes of a woman whose life paralleled the second wave of feminism, a movement that began in the 1960’s and focused on equal opportunities and equal pay for women. Placing her story in the context of women’s marches and feminist goals, the author tells how she grew up in a world that expected women to become homemakers and how she combined her desire for a professional career with marriage and motherhood at a time when mothers with careers were just starting to be accepted in our culture. I Rode the Second Wave: A Feminist Memoir: Abrams, Fran: 9781639886548: Amazon.com: Books

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Gordon Ferris

Sun, 15 Jan 2023 18:00:00 GMT

Gordon Ferris was born and raised in Finglas, a North West suburb of Dublin. In the early eighties, he moved to Donegal where he has lived ever since. He started writing in 2014 and has had many short stories and poems in publications including Hidden Channel, A New Ulster, The Galway Review, Impspired Magazine, and Lothlorien Poetry Journal. He has also won prizes in the summer 2020 HITA Creative Writing Competition for his poem 'Mother,' and won the winter competition for his poem 'The Silence.' Gordon was awarded a Poetry Town Bursary by Poetry Ireland. Early in 2023, Echoes, his first book of short stories, will be released January 15, 2023. Special Guests - Simon Ferris and Rebecca Kennedy

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents S.T. Brant

Fri, 13 Jan 2023 01:00:00 GMT

S. T. Brant is a Las Vegas high school teacher. His debut collection, Melody in Exile, is out with Atmosphere Press. His work has appeared in numerous journals, including Honest Ulsterman, EcoTheo, Timber, and Rain Taxi. You can reach him on his website at ShaneBrant.com, Twitter: @terriblebinth, or Instagram: @shanelemagne. Amazon.com: Melody in Exile eBook : Brant, S.T.: Books Book Reviews of Melody in Exile "I applaud the voice of S.T. Brant in these poems that trust in-depth, believe in conversations through time, in artistic pursuit, believe, despite everything, in search for truth even-or, perhaps, especially, in our pained, ruinous time. This is marvelous work." -Ilya Kaminsky "Blends the spirit of the Greeks singing to the muses with outtakes from Genesis. Through numbered ecstasies and the violences of memory, these poems search for love in the heart's empty theater... Full of beseeching prayer and longing for an unnamed you, this collection is a reminder of the sadness of eternity..." -Traci Brimhall

QLPOR Presents Genevieve Ray (Genevievefirepoet)

Sat, 14 Jan 2023 19:00:00 GMT

Genevieve is a Spoken Word artist and poet from Bedfordshire in Britain. She has been published in 17 magazines and anthologies. She worked in theatre for 6 years as a director and playwright. Genevieve is working on her first book due to be released next year. (3) Genevieve Ray - Creative | Facebook Genevieve Ray (@genevievefirepoet) • Instagram photos and videos

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Donna Spruijt-Metz

Fri, 27 Jan 2023 01:00:00 GMT

Donna Spruijt-Metz is a poet, a psychology professor, and a recent MacDowell Fellow. Her first career was as a classical flutist. She lived in the Netherlands for 22 years and translates Dutch poetry to English. Her poetry and translations appear in Copper Nickel, RHINO, Poetry Northwest, the Tahoma Literary Review, the Inflectionist Review, and elsewhere. Her chapbooks are ‘Slippery Surfaces’ (Finishing Line Press) and ‘And Haunt the World’ (a collaboration with Flower Conroy, Ghost City Press). Her full length ‘General Release from the Beginning of the World’ is forthcoming (January 2023, Free Verse Editions). [Author photo credit Alexis Rhone Fancher] Amazon.com: General Release from the Beginning of the World: 9781643173511: Spruijt-Metz, Donna: Books https://www.donnasmetz.com/ https://www.instagram.com/donnasmetz/ https://twitter.com/DSMPoet https://www.facebook.com/Donnasmetz/

QLPOR Presents Brian Stark and Lindsey Gill - The COLLIDE Zine

Tue, 10 Jan 2023 01:00:00 GMT

Bio: Brian was born a poet. Love of wisdom and adventure. A strong desire from a very young age to bring inspiration into the hearts of all readers of his poetry and all he crosses paths with. Only published on Facebook Poetry Society which is Brian's first created group on Facebook and his online poetry home yet, Brian has also created hundreds of more poetry groups on Facebook to create places where poets can come together and help each other learn and grow about our beloved craft of self-expression. Brian will always desire to create a poem that does get to the heart of humanity in the hope of change in a world filled with suffering. Brian does believe in humanity greatly as much does love poetry so very much. Brian has recently discovered yoga and meditation that he is using to heal and transform as to put himself in a greater position to help humanity if be in a poem or just from shining his love into this world. Bio: Lindsey is a freelance illustrator, muralist, and event organizer living in Philadelphia, PA. She is also a poet and a yoga teacher. It was her connection to a vegan cafe she loves called Lightbox that made her start writing regularly and attending the open mics they hosted there every Friday night. Feeling as if it was her calling to do so, Lindsey hatched the idea of a zine ( a small paperback publication) called COLLIDE to further the range of the words that so deeply impacted her at these events. The idea for the project was to pair local visual artists with poets like the ones she met at Lightbox in a collaborative theme across two pages of the magazine. Each artist or writer featured in Collide's issues gets a place on the shelf of one of seven Philly bookstores, a feat even Lindsey is still shocked she was able to do since the project began in May 2022. Lindsey will talk more about the future of Collide and how creatives can apply (for free!) to be featured in Issue 3, debuting hopefully in mid to late February.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents John Patrick Robbins

Sun, 08 Jan 2023 04:00:00 GMT

John Patrick Robbins is the editor-in-chief of ten magazines, including the Rye Whiskey Review. His work has appeared in Impspired Magazine, Piker Press, It Takes All Kinds Literary Zine, The Dope Fiend Daily, Horror Sleaze Trash, Fixator Press, Lothlorien Journal Of Poetry, Punk Noir Magazine, and Fearless Poetry Zine. His work is often dark, sometimes humorous, and always unfiltered. His current book, Are We Dead Yet from Black Circle Publishing, is available on Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/Are-Dead-John-Patrick-Robbins/dp/B0BL52F4HH .

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Katrenia Busch

Fri, 06 Jan 2023 01:00:00 GMT

Katrenia Busch is a published poet and author. Her work can be found in a number of places, including Police Writers, Westward Quarterly, Literature Today, The Trouvaille Review, Whimsical Poet, Bloom Magazine, The Chamber Magazine among others. Her poem, “Mystery and Wind” won 2nd place in 2022 for a creative writing contest for the League of Innovation Creative Writing. She is an admin on Facebook Poetry Society, yielding over 85k members, and serves as both a resource and mentor for publishers and writers alike. She is also a journalist and has worked with TV stations, radio stations, and newspapers and has covered a wide-range of events. https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100087528584176&mibextid=LQQJ4d https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmgb2004li

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Paul Richmond

Thu, 05 Jan 2023 01:00:00 GMT

Paul was named Beat Poet Laureate three times by National Beat Poetry Foundation, Inc. Massachusetts 2017 to 2019, U S National Beat Poet Laureate 2019 - 2020. New Generation Beat Poet Laureate 2020 - Lifetime Paul is best described as political, deadpan and wryly humorous, delivered in his own style. He has been called “Assassin of Apathy – power of words / humor - on the unthinkable, the unsolvable, to analyze to digest to give birth to creativity and hope.” He has performed nationally and internationally: The Austin International Poetry Festival, in Austin TX, four years, a feature Poet 2018. A featured poets at Gödör Klubban at the Jazzköltexzeti est in Budapest, Hungary. A featured poet at Beat Festival Stockholm, Sweden. Edinburgh Fringe Festival Scotland 2018, performed 12 shows. At the Massachusetts Poetry Festival part of a featured anthology. Featured Poet at West End Poetry Festival NC. A featured poet in the movie “Trash” by Bucky Jones, all the “dialog” was poetry. Featured Poet 2017, 2018, 2019 at the National Beat Poetry Festival. 2020 Performed several times in Senegal, Africa with the Senegal – American project. He created the project “Do It Now” where he works with many different musicians who performed at the Edinbough Fringe Festival 2019. He is also a publisher of over 50 writers and has 7 books himself. Swimming Lessons on the Titanic: Richmond, Paul: 9781948521109: Amazon.com: Books https://humanerrorpublishing.com/ https://www.youtube.com/c/PaulRichmond_Human_Error_Pub/videos

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Mary Gilliland

Wed, 04 Jan 2023 01:00:00 GMT

Mary Gilliland is the author of two award-winning collections: The Ruined Walled Castle Garden (2020) and The Devil’s Fools (2022), with poems, anthologized most recently in Rumors Secrets & Lies: Poems on Pregnancy, Abortion & Choice; Nuclear Impact: Broken Atoms in Our Hands; and Wild Gods: The Ecstatic in Contemporary Poetry and Prose. She is a past recipient of the Stanley Kunitz Fellowship from the Fine Arts Work Center and a Cornell University Council on the Arts Faculty Grant. https://marygilliland.com/ https://www.codhill.com/product/the-devils-fools/ https://twitter.com/newsthatstays https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCK6j5jNA5jTFAb9qV6QsTGw https://sunypress.edu/Books/T/The-Devil-s-Fools

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Dr. Arif Ahmad

Fri, 16 Dec 2022 23:00:00 GMT

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Dr. Arif Ahmad is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology and a Fellow of the Heart Rhythm Society and practices cardiology and electrophysiology in southern Wisconsin. He is a mid-Westerner with pride for where he came from – Pakistan, his faith – Muslim, and most of all, for the county he now calls home – America. Born in Lahore, Pakistan, he has lived in New York City, Milwaukee, and Iron Mountain, MI, and now resides in Madison, WI. He also has a farm 20 minutes from his home. Dr. Arif Ahmad lived his first 30 years of life in Pakistan. After coming to America in the 1990s, he has been in the United States for almost 30 years. Through his experiences and optimistic outlook, he shares an encouraging vision for America in his debut book, A Piece of Me: An Arrangement of Words To Inspire Reflection. Written over a decade the 2010s, his book offers provocative thoughts on a wide variety of topical areas, including unity, diversity, news media, faith, and health. It became a best-seller on Amazon and earned the 2022 Bronze Medal Award in the Poetry/ Verse category for the Global Book Awards. Though it is his debut book, his writings have been published in the Associated Press and CNN.com. What we can learn from the Muslim-American experienceHow he uses award-winning poetry to get his points acrossExploring our nation through the eyes of a well-educated Pakistani immigrantHow can we shape society for the future right nowWhy we should feel optimism — but what we can do to bridge our cultural divide Which moments of the past decade are defining America.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Proudly Presents Rick Lupert

Tue, 20 Dec 2022 01:00:00 GMT

Rick Lupert has been involved with poetry in Los Angeles since 1990. He is the recipient of the 2017 Ted Slade Award, and the 2014 Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center Distinguished Service Award, a 3 time Pushcart Prize Nominee, and a Best of the Net nominee. He served as a co-director of the Valley Contemporary Poets for 2 years, and created Poetry Super Highway. Rick hosted the weekly Cobalt Cafe reading for almost 21 years which has lived on as a weekly Zoom series since early 2020. His spoken word album "Rick Lupert Live and Dead" featured 25 studio and live tracks. He’s authored 26 collections of poetry, including “I Am Not Writing a Book of Poems in Hawaii,” “The Tokyo-Van Nuys Express,” and “God Wrestler: A Poem for Every Torah Portion” (Ain’t Got No Press) and edited the anthologies “A Poet’s Siddur”, “Ekphrastia Gone Wild”, “A Poet’s Haggadah” and the noir anthology “The Night Goes on All Night. He also writes and draws (with Brendan Constantine) the daily web comic “Cat and Banana” and writes a Jewish poetry column for JewishJournal.com. He has been lucky enough to read his poetry all over the world. https://poetrysuperhighway.com/ https://www.jewishpoetry.net/ https://facebook.com/rickpoet Books: https://amzn.to/3WPnk5f

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Mary Louise Kiernan

Thu, 15 Dec 2022 01:00:00 GMT

Mary Louise Kiernan is a member of both Calling All Poets and the Woodstock Poetry Society. She was awarded the 2015 Poetry Prize by Tempe Public Library in partnership with Arizona State University. Kiernan’s poetry appears in The New York Times and elsewhere. Most recently, her debut book's closing poem has been translated into Italian for The Salerno Project's anthology of poems penned by a multinational group of poets. Her debut poetry collection is titled "The Gift of Glossophobia." https://www.marylouisekiernan.com Amazon.com: The Gift of Glossophobia: 9781952326929: Kiernan, Mary Louise: Books https://www.facebook.com/marylouise.kiernan https://www.instagram.com/postsbymarylouise

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Millicent Borges Accardi

Wed, 14 Dec 2022 01:00:00 GMT

Millicent Borges Accardi, an NEA fellow, is a Portuguese-American writer. She has four poetry collections, including Only More So (Salmon Poetry, Ireland). Among her awards are poetry fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, California Arts Council, CantoMundo, Fulbright, Foundation for Contemporary Arts NYC (Covid grant), Creative Capacity, Fundação Luso-Americana, and Barbara Deming Foundation, “Money for Women.” She lives in the hippie-arts community of Topanga, CA, where she curates Kale Soup for the Soul and Loose Lips poetry readings. https://www.amazon.com/Millicent-Borges-Accardi/e/B003AOMTEI/ref=dp_byline_cont_pop_book_1 https://twitter.com/TopangaHippie https://www.instagram.com/topangahippie/ https://www.facebook.com/MillB/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwbXwQAICIc https://www.linkedin.com/in/millicent-borges-accardi-bb4b964/

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Proudly Presents Zomkhonto

Sun, 11 Dec 2022 01:00:00 GMT

Mbonisi Zikhali is a poet/spoken word artist and storyteller born in Makokoba, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. He has loved poetry since he was a child. He won his first poetry certificate when he was 8 years old. His spoken-word/storytelling name is Zomkhonto, which happens to be his bloodline’s totem. He is also a trained journalist, youth mentor, qualified community services worker, grassroots community organizer and mental wellness advocate. He considers himself an afro-empath, and is driven to ensure that people find joy in the power of words and story-telling. Some of the recent publications he has appeared in include winner of Off Topic Publishing's August 2022 Poetry Contest, Best New African Poets 2019 Anthology by Mwanaka Media and Publishing, Ipikai Poetry Journal's inaugural and second edition (initiative of the Zimbabwe Poets Society) among others. His work is also showcased at the World Poetry Slam Championships (September 26-30, 2022) in Brussels, Belgium. In 2021, he was part of Artcite Windsor (Canada)'s “Emancipate the Landscape,” a month-long exhibition that ran from August-September and was meant to celebrate the resilience and elegance of everyday Blackness, deconstruct dominant culture and turn stereotypes about black people on their head. He also holds workshops on writing for mental wellness. He is the current President of Artcite Windsor (Canada)'s Board of Directors. https://linktr.ee/Zomkhonto https://www.facebook.com/mbonisi.zikhali https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2r-peqN9Fsxv5hzGbK5QPQ

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Jamey Boelhower

Thu, 08 Dec 2022 01:00:00 GMT

Jamey Boelhower is a poet and independent author with numerous published works to his name. Not only is Jamey a prolific writer but also he has been an educator for over 20 years. Although his focus is on poetry, Jamey has also made a name for himself with his compelling blogs and popular fictional novel Under the Lights. Jamey’s most recent works include April 2020: A Poetic Time Capsule of Writing and Living During a Pandemic, These Words Believe in Ghosts, and Father and Son: Words Apart, among many others. Throughout his career, Jamey has delved into a variety of topics, including family, heartache, and the mysteries of life. Jamey is well-known for challenging his readers' perspectives and inspiring them to see things in a deeper way. As a loving husband and father of six, Jamey enjoys spending his free time with his family. Currently, he is working on new works that will be released soon.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Vincent J. Calone

Tue, 06 Dec 2022 01:00:00 GMT

Vincent J Calone is a New Formalist poet. He studied under Lewis Turco- author of the "New Book of Poetic Forms" on New England Press. Poet, playwright, actor, director- he wears different many hats but the message remains the same- Why do we do what we do? How can we change it? And how can we learn, grow and evolve? Recent publications include, Fresh Words An International Literary Magazine; selected anthologies- Cooch Behar, Nature and Everest out of India, Wingless Dreamer, The 24 Hour Poetry Marathon and regular appearances on Spo-Fest, The MUSE @ Neir's, Jack Jack's, Flash Mob Poetry and Poetry in the Port. Vincent writes and posts a new poem every day on Raven Wire Poetry Prompts on Facebook continuously since 08/01/22 based off on the daily poetry prompt. Vincent is proud to be part of the writing collective atwww.brateragency.com.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Wayne David Hubbard

Thu, 01 Dec 2022 01:00:00 GMT

Wayne David Hubbard is an author of poetry, essays, and short stories. His literary works explore – both directly and abstractly – aspects of science, philosophy, history, and culture across the Americas, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Synopsis: In his debut poetry collection, Death Throes of the Broken Clockwork Universe, Wayne David Hubbard illustrates journeys through physical space and abstract worlds of emotion. Combining choreological precision with playfulness, readers enter the mind’s eye of a poet standing along the shoreline of powerful forces that shape all lives: time, place, and love. Written over a ten-year period, the collection calls to mind the poetry of Lorine Niedecker, Rae Armantrout, Larry Eigner, and Carl Phillips. Importantly, these poems resist thick, impenetrable themes, instead celebrating ordinal wonders of life that are hidden in open view. This spare book offers strong, memorable imagery and questions that will delight thoughtful readers. https://waynedavidhubbard.com/ https://www.amazon.com/Wayne-David-Hubbard/e/B096644MJG?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1669130464&sr=1-1

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Simon Constam

Wed, 30 Nov 2022 01:00:00 GMT

Simon Constam is a Toronto poet and aphorist. His first book of poetry, BROUGHT DOWN, was published in January 2022, by Wipf and Stock Publishers. Its early reviews have been exceptional! Kevin John Hart, Anglo-Australian theologian, philosopher, and poet, “Some of the poems remind me, in the best way, of poems by Yehuda Amichai and Nelly Sachs. . . . From time to time, I also was reminded of some of the later poems of R. S. Thomas.” He has published poetry in a number of magazines, among them The Jewish Literary Journal, long con magazine, the Dark Poets Club, and Poetica Magazine. Since late 2018, he has been publishing, under the moniker Daily Ferocity, an original aphorism every day on Instagram and for an email subscriber base. In early 2023, Simon’s first two books of aphorisms, The Love Aphorisms and The Book of Dark Ideas, will be published. See Simon at simonconstam.com Brought Down: Constam, Simon: 9781666790115: Amazon.com: Books

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Kim Ports Parsons

Tue, 29 Nov 2022 01:00:00 GMT

After working in education for thirty years as a professor, mentor, public-school teacher, and librarian, Kim now spends as much time as possible on the reading, writing, and sharing of poetry. Terrapin Books recently published her first collection, The Mayapple Forest. Her poems appear in many journals and anthologies, in print and online, recently including SWWIM Every Day, Poetry Ireland Review, Artemis, and Not the Time to be Silent: Collected Works. Kim volunteers weekly for the international group, Cultivating Voices LIVE Poetry, creating graphic designs and assisting with programming because she believes in the poetic community. She loves to garden, walk, and connect with nature, next door to Shenandoah National Park, where she lives with her husband, Doug, her hound dog Sadie, and her calico, Miss Daisy. https://www.kimportsparsons.com/ The Mayapple Forest: Parsons, Kim Ports: 9781947896598: Amazon.com: Books

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Indran Amirthanayagam

Tue, 22 Nov 2022 01:00:00 GMT

Indran Amirthanayagam produced a “world record” in 2020 publishing three poetry collections written in three different languages. He writes in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese and Haitian Creole. He has published twenty two poetry books, including Isleño (R.I.L. Editores), Blue Window (translated by Jennifer Rathbun) (Diálogos Books), Ten Thousand Steps Against the Tyrant (BroadstoneBooks.com), The Migrant States, Coconuts on Mars, The Elephants of Reckoning (winner 1994 Paterson Poetry Prize), Uncivil War and The Splintered Face: Tsunami Poems. In music, he recorded Rankont Dout. He edits the Beltway Poetry Quarterly (www.beltwaypoetry.com); writes https://indranamirthanayagam.blogspot.com; writes a weekly poem for Haiti en Marche and El Acento; has received fellowships from the Foundation for the Contemporary Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, The US/Mexico Fund for Culture and the Macdowell Colony. He is the IFLAC Word Poeta Mundial 2022. In 2021 he won an Emergent Seed grant. His poem “ Free Bird” has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Hosts The Poetry Channel https://youtube.com/user/indranam. New books, including Powèt nan po la (Poet of the Port ) and Origami: Selected Poems of Manuel Ulacia will be published by early 2023. Indran publishes poetry books with Sara Cahill Marron at Beltway Editions (www.beltwayeditions.com).http://www.beltwayeditions.com. Origami: Selected Poems of Manuel Ulacia – Lavender Ink / Diálogos http://www.youtube.com/c/indranam

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Michelle Carter-Douglass

Tue, 15 Nov 2022 01:00:00 GMT

Author, poet, and minister Michelle Carter-Douglass is a graduate of Struthers High School (1991), Mahoning County Joint Vocational School (1991), and Youngstown State University (2014). Among her accomplishments, she is the mother of, authors Patrick M. Douglass, Arlessa R. Douglass, Kailah Mychelle Douglass, and Brialan Douglass. She is a survivor of domestic abuse and homelessness. Minister Carter-Douglass is dedicated to serving God and helping those in our communities. https://www.amazon.com/Michelle-Carter-Douglass/e/B0762TYHF7?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1668017664&sr=8-1

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents ash good

Wed, 16 Nov 2022 01:00:00 GMT

ash good is a nonbinary queer poet & designer living, playing & working in Portland, Oregon. They are the author of five books & chapbooks—including most recently "us clumsy gods" from What Books press—as well as co-founding editor at First Matter Press (a 501c3 nonprofit), guide to Set Your Stories Free (a weekly generative workshop), curator of High Priestesses of Poetry & a reader for Frontier Poetry. Their poetry has been nominated for Best of the Net & appears in Faultline Journal of Arts & Letters, Cimarron Review, 45th Parallel, Chautauqua, Bird Coat Quarterly & others. http://www.ashgood.com us clumsy gods by Ash Good, Paperback | Barnes & Noble® (barnesandnoble.com) https://www.instagram.com/justlightgrow/

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Alatishe Kolawole

Sat, 12 Nov 2022 18:00:00 GMT

Alatishe Kolawole' Poet and Friend of Civilization is an award-winning author, singer of hope, and the convener of the world Anthem. His work serves to change society. It unites talent, courage, and commitment for peace and equality. Reading Alatishe's collection 'Immerse your feet in this river of hope.' Alatishe Kolawole won the Gold medal at the prestigious international poetry award 'Frate Ilaro del Corvo' and has been recognized with several international honors, including a European commission commendation and Kanoni's important official certificate of recognition in Kampala preparatory school, Uganda, for poetry and civil commitment. Alatishe Kolawole is a poet who sings about the tragedy of oppressed people crushed by conflict, indifference, and poverty. Still, he is also a poet whose voice helps to work for a better society characterized by peace, equality, and progress. His new book is Human Togetherness ... Evolving Towards a New Frontier HUMAN TOGETHERNESS: Evolving Towards a New Frontier: Kolawole, Alatishe: 9798352212486: Amazon.com: Books

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Sara Moore Wagner

Wed, 09 Nov 2022 01:00:00 GMT

Sara Moore Wagner is the winner of the 2021 Cider Press Review Editors Prize for her book Swan Wife (2022), and the 2020 Driftwood Press Manuscript Prize for Hillbilly Madonna (2022), and the author of two chapbooks, Tumbling After (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2022) and Hooked Through (2017). She is also a 2022 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award recipient, a 2021 National Poetry Series Finalist, and the recipient of a 2019 Sustainable Arts Foundation award. Her poetry has appeared in many journals and anthologies including Sixth Finch, Waxwing, Nimrod, Rhino, Beloit Poetry Journal, and The Cincinnati Review, among others. Find her at https://www.saramoorewagner.com/ https://www.facebook.com/saralizmoore https://twitter.com/SaraMooreWagne1 https://www.amazon.com/Hillbilly-Madonna-Sara-Moore-Wagner/dp/1949065227 https://www.driftwoodpress.com/product-page/hillbilly-madonna

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Margaret R. Sáraco

Tue, 08 Nov 2022 01:00:00 GMT

Margaret R. Sáraco is a writer, activist, and retired educator. Her poetry and short stories have appeared in many anthologies and journals. Margaret was a semi-finalist in the inaugural Laura Boss Narrative Poetry Contest in 2022. She received Honorable Mention in the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Contest in 2020 for her poem “The Unlocked Door.” The New Jersey Covid-19 Storytelling Project selected two of her poems as part of a historical record of artwork across the state. A Writing the Land poet, she helps to raise awareness of the importance of land conservation through her poetry. " If There Is No Wind," her first full-length poetry collection, was published this fall. Amazon.com: If There Is No Wind: 9781948521116: Sáraco, Margaret R.: Books

QL: POR Presents Justin Johnson (Johnson Soldout)

Fri, 04 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMT

Justin Johnson is a NYC-born, New Jersey-raised author, spoken word, and music artist currently living outside of Newark. Justin self-published his first book of poems, Scattered, in January 2021 as well as, had his poetry published in multiple magazines and presses in the US and UK (Genre Urban Arts, Cousins Magazine, Apricot Press). Outside of writing, Justin has also made his name in the spoken word open mic scene as Johnson Soldout! Johnson has headlined a myriad of open mics in the NJ/NYC, most notable being the Bowery Poetry Club and the Nuyorican. In early 2022 Johnson even headlined Woodland Pattern Book Center’s 28th annual poetry marathon in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Justin is currently working on his second collection of poetry as well as, putting his poetic stylings over instrumentals. When he’s not writing poems, you can catch Johnson at the gym, playing a board game or loafing around in a park or beach. Scattered https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08SV28L11/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_PRFW1TBCKXJRP3MEYD92

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Alison Palmer

Thu, 03 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMT

Alison Palmer is the author of the poetry chapbook, Everything Is Normal Here (Broadstone Books, 2022), the full-length poetry collection, Bargaining with the Fall (Broadstone Books, January 2023), and the poetry chapbook, The Need for Hiding (Dancing Girl Press, 2018). To read an interview, visit www.thepoetsbillow.org. Alison’s work appears widely in journals such as FIELD, The Cincinnati Review, River Styx, Columbia Review, The Journal, Rogue Agent, Crazyhorse, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of a 2022 Independent Artist Award (IAA) grant from the Maryland State Arts Council (MSAC). Alison received her MFA from Washington University in St. Louis, and she was awarded the Emma Howell Memorial Poetry Prize from Oberlin College. She writes outside Washington, D.C.—find her on the web at: alisonpalmer.org. https://www.broadstonebooks.com/shop/p/everything-is-normal-here-a-poetry-chapbook-by-alison-palmer https://www.facebook.com/alison.palmer.5015 https://www.instagram.com/alipalmpoet/

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Benjamin Goldberg

Tue, 01 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMT

Benjamin Goldberg’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in POETRY, TriQuarterly, West Branch, Blackbird, Best New Poets 2014 & 2020, Verse Daily, & elsewhere. He lives with his wife outside Washington, D.C. The mission of Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio is to provide a live format for emerging, mid-career, and established poets to showcase their work. Whether traditional poetry or spoken word, the show offers an online vehicle for artists to engage in conversational interviews about poetry. If you would like to be a guest on QL: POR, please contact the host, Dr. Michael Anthony Ingram, at maingram@gmx.com. You can also visit the website at qlpor.com to learn more information about the podcast.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents T.A. Niles

Fri, 28 Oct 2022 00:00:00 GMT

T. A. Niles was a seed planted in the Caribbean soil of Trinidad & Tobago on the cusp of the transformational 60s. He was watered and fertilized in the gardens of Brooklyn, New York, and Hartford, Connecticut throughout most of the bell-bottomed era of the 70s. He was forged in trials by fire in the US Marine Corps in the late 70s thru the early 80s, budded and bloomed in academia in the 80s and 90s, before his withering began at the turn of the 21st century. T. A. is officially retired-although he’s every bit as busy as he was before retirement, and he lives with his beloved Stephanie and their cat Luna in Mimbres, New Mexico- the latest stop on a life journey dotted with myriad landscapes. https://tapoetexpress.blogspot.com/ https://www.facebook.com/taniles13 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQuUXZENe-u4D0TZn1x01ew .

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Sean Wordsmith

Thu, 27 Oct 2022 00:00:00 GMT

Sean Hunter was born and raised in the busy borough of Queens, New York. Ironically, after being a mailman for over 12 years, he hopes to deliver inspiration to all readers that come across his writings. Sean values his family and faith most notably in his life. He is a dedicated husband and father of 3 beautiful, handsome, intelligent young children. His oldest, 10-year-old Cheyenne Hunter, inspired him to write his first book back in February 2022 titled Chelby's Hairoics once bidding for personal time, as many parents with multiple children can relate. After sitting down one Sunday morning inside a college library nearby their apartment, the two brainstormed to write a book. Sean credits Cheyenne with naming every character in Chelby's Hairoics. He has aspirations of becoming a full-time writer with hopes of reaching readers all over the world. Although he is a first-time author, the second installment of Chelby's Hairoics is already in the making. Sean began writing poetry 10 years ago when his father passed away and transitioned to help him with the grieving process and pay homage to his father. His father was the first person who told him that he should make writing his career. At age 42, he aspires to do just that. Along with bringing awareness to everyday injustices, Sean hopes to inspire those who come across his work to become the best versions of themselves.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Sara Cahill Marron

Tue, 25 Oct 2022 00:00:00 GMT

Sara Cahill Marron, native Virginian, and Long Island resident, is the author of Reasons for the Long Tu’m (Broadstone Books, 2018), Nothing You Build Here, Belongs Here (Kelsay Books 2021), and Call Me Spes (MadHat Press 2022). She is the Associate Editor of Beltway Poetry Quarterly and publisher at Beltway Editions. She is periodically available for editing projects and specializes in creative fiction and poetry. Published work and contact information are available at www.saracahillmarron.com https://www.amazon.in/Sara-Cahill-Marron/e/B07VJ1H2F5%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Derrick Davis

Wed, 26 Oct 2022 00:00:00 GMT

Derrick Davis was born in Charlotte NC. Derrick writes about his experiences on his Christian journey. His newly released book, “Seedtime and Harvest: Volume 1” is an empowering collection of spoken word poetry that will captivate the spirit. Seedtime and Harvest: Volume 1 https://www.christianfaithpublishing.com/books/?book=seedtime-and-harvest https://www.facebook.com/dark777cloud

QLPOR Presents Chayyim Eliezer Ben Israel

Thu, 20 Oct 2022 00:00:00 GMT

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Brenardo Taylor

Sun, 16 Oct 2022 00:00:00 GMT

Brenardo aka “The Sing Song Poet” is a native Washingtonian poet, spoken word artist, and songwriter. He has been writing for more than two-thirds of his life. His written words have been featured in countless newspapers, magazines, and poetry anthologies, including his 2019 chapbook, "Bridge Over Trouble.” He has traveled extensively lifting his poetic voice. Brenardo is a visionary speaker that inspires his peers and motivates, stimulates, and edifies all members of the many audiences he encounters. To read Brenardo Taylor's bio, please visit https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/67311274/brenardo-aka-sing-song-poet

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Tamara J. Madison

Fri, 14 Oct 2022 00:00:00 GMT

Tamara J. Madison is an author, poet, editor, and instructor. Her critical and creative works have been recorded, produced, and published in various journals, magazines, exhibits, podcasts, and anthologies. Her most recent poetry collection Threed, This Road Not Damascus, was published by Trio House Press (May 2019). She is also the creator and host of BREAKDOWN: The Poet & The Poems, a YouTube poetry conversation series promoting poets and their poetry as inspiration for everyday life. She has also shared her poetry on the TEDx platform. Tamara has shared and recorded her work for stage, television, and studio. She enjoys facilitating creative writing and expressions workshops for both youths and adults. She is an MFA graduate of New England College and an Anaphora Arts Fellow (2021). She currently lives in Orlando, where she teaches as a professor of English and Creative Writing at Valencia College. https://twitter.com/tamarajmadison https://instagram.com/tamarajmadison https://facebook.com/tamarajmadison https://www.youtube.com/c/Tamarajmadisonwriterpoet https://www.linkedin.com/TamaraJMadison

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Michael Mark

Thu, 13 Oct 2022 00:00:00 GMT

Michael Mark is the author of Visiting Her in Queens is More Enlightening than a Month in a Monastery in Tibet which won the Rattle Chapbook prize and will be published in 2022. His poetry has been published in Alaska Quarterly Review, The Arkansas International, Copper Nickel, Grist, Michigan Quarterly Review, Pleiades, Ploughshares, Poetry Daily, Poetry Northwest, Rattle, River Styx, The Southern Review, The New York Times, The Sun, Verse Daily, Waxwing, The Poetry Foundation’s American Life in Poetry and other places. He was the recipient of the Anthony Hecht Scholarship at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. He’s the author of two books of stories, Toba and At the Hands of a Thief (Atheneum). He lives with his wife, Lois, a journalist, in San Diego. Visit him at michaeljmark.com https://twitter.com/michaelgrow https://www.facebook.com/michael.mark1 https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelmark/ https://www.rattle.com/product/visiting-her-in-queens-is-more-enlightening-than-a-month-in-a-monastery-in-tibet/?fbclid=IwAR0g-e0GOfTpNEJHJqmtFA0j_fqLTSpsC2UsnpUvn_4wAR9YimewSGnQREU

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Marianne Tefft

Thu, 06 Oct 2022 00:00:00 GMT

-- I'm a journalism grad who had a "first life" in magazine journalism, and freelance marketing-communications work in Canada; however, with the arrival of my daughter Julia, now 26, I made a mid-life career change into Montessori teaching. Since 2002, I've been a classroom teacher at Sint Maarten Montessori School in the Dutch Caribbean. -- I absolutely LOVE encouraging kids and, really, EVERYone to find their Inner Poet! One of the great satisfactions of a life in words is the knowledge that 17 of my current and former students, ages 9 to 19, have also become published writers and poets -- and we're just getting started 😄 -- On your show, I'll read from my collections Full Moon Fire, published last summer, and Moonchild, coming in December. (Yes, I'm a July-born Moonchild, and the Moon does shine brightly into my work!) I'm a writer who always has multiple projects in the works. These days, I'm working on a manuscript entitled RAINBOW COUNTRY, inspired through and through by life in my island home. I'd like to share a poem or two from that work in progress. -- To launch Full Moon Fire, I collaborated with Rawle James in Toronto and the international poets of the Inspired Poetry Corner in the first Moon Lovers International Poetry & Music Fest -- featuring SXM poets live on stage and poet-friends on Zoom!! Beginning in November 2022, we plan to make this a monthly event!

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Diana Rosen

Tue, 04 Oct 2022 00:00:00 GMT

DIANA ROSEN is an essayist, flash writer, and poet whose first full-length book of flash and poetry, "High Stakes & Expectations", was released in spring 2022 from The Tiny Publisher. She has published in online and print journals and anthologies throughout the U.S., Australia, Canada, India, and the U.K., including Rattle, As It Ought to be Magazine, Mad Swirl, and Potato Soup Journal, among others. She is also the author of 13 nonfiction books on food, beverage, and lifestyle topics and currently writes about tea, coffee, and spices for various websites. She lives and works in Los Angeles, where her "backyard" is the 4,000+acre Griffith Park, the largest urban green space in the country. To read more of her work, please visit www.authory.com/dianarosen. To order her book, please visit www.thetinypublisher.com. October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month (DVAM). Domestic violence is a serious violent crime involving physical and emotional abuse. It is frequently hidden from public view. Many victims suffer in silence, afraid to seek help or not knowing where to turn. The traumatic effects of domestic violence also extend beyond the abused person, impacting family members and communities. For more information, please visit https://nccadv.org/domestic-violence-info

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Sarah Gallardo

Fri, 07 Oct 2022 00:00:00 GMT

With years of experience to her credit, Sarah Gallardo has excelled as the founder and executive director of Sarah Speaks Up since 2015. A nonprofit organization that promotes domestic violence awareness, advocates for domestic violence survivors, and provides resources to women, children, men, and families in need, Sarah Speaks Up encourages those who have lived through domestic abuse to share their own experiences and inspire others who may be facing similar circumstances to live free of violence and abuse. A survivor of domestic violence herself, Ms. Gallardo's message is not that of a victim but of a strong woman who has overcome adversity, defied the odds, and remained positive in the face of violence to change the lives of herself and her child for the better. For more information, please visit https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/67259423/sarah-gallardo

QL: POR Proudly Presents Celebrating the Muse: Two Women and their Poetry

Tue, 18 Oct 2022 00:00:00 GMT

Jackie Oldham (she/her) is a writer from Baltimore, Maryland. After retiring from a career as a scientific copy editor and trainer in 2013, Jackie returned to writing, which, along with music, fuels and fulfills her soul. Since December 2014, she has been writing a personal blog, baltimoreblackwoman.com (WordPress), featuring essays, memoirs, and poems about life and family in her hometown. Since 2018, her focus has shifted to poetry. In addition to venues in Baltimore, she has read her works on the Quintessential Listening: Poetry podcast (2019-2022) and the Black Poets Matter series (Mad Mouth Poetry on Facebook, 2020). Since 2020, her poems have been published in the journals Oddball Magazine, Global Poemic, Rigorous Magazine, and Spillwords Press, and in the book A Lovely Place, A Fighting Place, A Charmer: The Baltimore Anthology. Lynne Viti was born and raised in Baltimore and now lives in Massachusetts. She has published four poetry collections, including the recently released _The Walk to Cefalù_, from the Cornerstone Press /Portage Press Poetry Series. Her poetry, nonfiction, and fiction have appeared in over 150 journals and anthologies, including The Wire: Urban Decay and American Television, Welcome to the Neighborhood and A Lovely Place, a Fighting Place, A Charmer: Baltimore Anthology. A lecturer emerita at Wellesley College, she leads poetry workshops and teaches in community programs in the Boston area. Her poems have received recognition in the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Contest, the Joe Gouveia Poetry Contest, and the Fish Publishing Poetry Contest.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Jason M. Thornberry

Thu, 29 Sep 2022 00:00:00 GMT

Jason M. Thornberry’s writing appears in literary journals and magazines, including TAB: The Journal of Poetry & Poetics, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Entropy, and Letters Journal. Jason is also the survivor of a traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic epilepsy—a life-changing experience that abruptly terminated his quest to become a professional musician. One evening, in the summer of 1999, as Jason’s band was about to release their debut album and begin touring, a pair of strangers beat him into a coma and left him for dead. When Jason awoke, he could not walk or speak. Jason spent a year in a wheelchair before returning to school. Jason earned an MFA in Creative Writing from Chapman University. He currently teaches writing at Seattle Pacific University and is finishing his first novel. https://jmthornberry.wordpress.com/

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Nicole Gillespie

Tue, 27 Sep 2022 00:00:00 GMT

Nicole Gillespie is the author of two amazing poetry books, Transparent Moments and Mirror’s Reflections. Each has a five-star rating on amazon with raving reviews and landed her as a Best Author finalist for the 4th annual People Choice Awards of Kansas City! She was born and raised in Kansas City, Mo. Although she is a City girl, it’s just something country about her. For example, she loves wide open spaces, gardening, fishing, and long nature walks while looking for fruit trees with her shoes off. Gazing at the stars and cooking big ole soul food Sunday dinners for her 3 children. As well as her three grandchildren Shi’yaire 13, Shi’lah 11, and Sean, aka Hercules, 9. These three are the absolute loves of her life, her riders, and her fountains of youth. Nicole's love for words was molded by her mother at a very early age. Let me explain if she or her siblings would ask how to pronounce a word or its meaning. Her mom would say go look at the word, and its meaning up! Then come back and tell me its definition and pronunciation. Which gave Nicole such intrigue of words, laying the foundation for future events. Such as her love of metaphors that she often uses to convey how she is feeling thru her poetry. She shows no shame as a very deep emotional writer/ poet. Nicole often says that they get me if someone reading my soul can read between its lines. The language of the soul has its own colloquial form (mother tongue), and only the ones that can understand its accent can relate!!

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Linda Ohlson Graham

Tue, 13 Sep 2022 00:00:00 GMT

Linda Ohlson Graham (so very proud to have been named CO Department of Peace Poet Laureate in Oct. 2009) is a fine photographer and ecstatic poet who has sailed thousands of miles … including the Bahamas, the Caribbean, and Central and South America. She also lived within (1984-93) and co-directed (1984-96) The (J.M.W). Turner Museum in Denver, CO. Her photography and spiritual writing portray the richness of her life's experience. Linda believes … with ALL of her Heart … that Peace CAN be actualized, our Earth's weather patterns CAN be calmed, terrorist attacks would end ... and insight(s) to arrest, and cure the pandemic would be realized ... honestly, quite simply, by 'a few moments of a collective intention re: Silencing thought ' ... and when thought does arise, to either Silence it ... or intentionally compose 'positive thought' statements-Prayers. Her book: Earth Ocean Heavens ... a mini guide book to aid Humanity in entering "The New Age" can be viewed @ https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4WKpAHlmhy1SlowMTRVMzYtdVdqQVhXV2lzNjNrZXlNZUN3/view?ts=59e915e6.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Kevin Lichty

Thu, 15 Sep 2022 00:00:00 GMT

Kevin Lichty was born and raised in the Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C. He received an MFA in Fiction from Arizona State University, where he continues to teach composition. His work has appeared in Yemasee, Ponder Review, Palooka, Broad River Review, and elsewhere. The Circle that Fits The fiction novella is a surreal, sometimes shocking account of carnival life, narrated in the first person by Daniel, a child protagonist who becomes the caretaker of his father's nightmares after his mother's mysterious disappearance. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1949065189/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_B5X7H23G151SA19AE500

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Linda Eguiluz

Thu, 22 Sep 2022 00:00:00 GMT

Author: Linda Eguiluz (egg-ee-loose) lives and writes in Austin, Texas. Book: The Carcass Undressed https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B6WTS1BP/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_P5DD6QFZBRN812DYWWVN Synopsis: In her debut collection, Linda Eguiluz explores the maladies of the body and its consequences. Drawing from the unconstrained depth of free verse and confessional poetry, this collection is divided into three sections: The Body, The Bones, and The Heart. Each section looks at the inner workings of the body and the environment that provokes it. Themes of motherhood, mental illness, relationships, and identity permeate the contents of this book—to bring a clearer picture of what it means to be a woman. https://instagram.com/lindawritespoems

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Linda Imbler

Thu, 08 Sep 2022 00:00:00 GMT

Linda Imbler’s poetry collections include six published paperbacks: Big Questions, Little Sleep, Big Questions, Little Sleep” second edition, Lost and Found, Red Is The Sunrise, and Bus Lights, Travel Sights. Soma Publishing has published her four e-book collections, The Sea’s Secret Song, Pairings, a hybrid of short fiction and poetry, That Fifth Element, and Per Quindecim. Her new book, Spica’s Frequency, was published on December 1, 2021. In addition to writing, she helps her husband, a Luthier, build acoustic guitars and steel strings in Wichita, Kansas, U.S.A. They are currently working on number 10. Examples of Linda’s poetry and a listing of publications can be found at https://lindaspoetryblog.blogspot.com https://www.facebook.com/limblerpoet https://www.instagram.com/imblerpoet2020/ https://www.amazon.com/~/e/B079CY8FML

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Bhikshuni Weisbrot

Tue, 06 Sep 2022 00:00:00 GMT

Bhikshuni Weisbrot lives in Queens, NY. She worked at the United Nations for 25 years and is the President of the United Nations SRC Society of Writers. She is the editor, along with Elizabeth Lara and Darrel Alejandro Holnes of “Happiness, the Delight-Tree,” An Anthology of Contemporary International Poetry honoring the International Day of Happiness. (March 20) which brings together poets from 67 countries, with poems in 35 world languages. A poet, most recently her work has appeared in "On Human Flourishing, A Poetry Anthology" (McFarland and Co., Inc). She is a regular contributor of both her own poems and that of her long-time spiritual teacher Sri Chinmoy (1931-2007) to the radio show "Green Living", with 3rd Strike Radio and has performed in many of his publicly staged plays. Bhikshuni is a former ultra-distance runner and continues to support multi-day racing as a member of the Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team. Happiness, the Delight-Tree, An Anthology of Contemporary International Poetry https://www.amazon.com/dp/1938599721/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_NXW8B313QK5J2VRE252H On Human Flourishing: A Poetry Anthology https://www.amazon.com/dp/B016R259FA/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_TM3NF3WAXV7R2YXRRJVN

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Candice M. Kelsey

Tue, 30 Aug 2022 00:00:00 GMT

Candice Kelsey (she/her) is a poet, educator, and activist. Originally from Cincinnati, she received her Bachelor's degree in English from Miami University, Ohio, with an emphasis on epic poetry. She studied law for two years in Chicago but withdrew to pursue writing. She earned her Master's degree in English, with an emphasis on feminist theory, at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, a city she considers home and where she made a life for twenty-eight years. Candice currently lives in Georgia and finds inspiration from watching white-tailed deer in the backyard with her husband and three children. She remains a Dodgers fan. She has served as a fiction reader for The New England Review and as a poetry judge for Ageless Authors. She has received three Pushcart and two Best of the Net nominations. Her second full-length collection, A Girl / Woman / Teacher / Poet, is out now with Alien Buddha Press (2022), while her debut full-length collection, Still I am Pushing, is out with Finishing Line Press (2020). Candice is the author of Generation MySpace, published by Marlowe & Company (2007), a cutting-edge study of how adolescents navigated the vanguard of social media. She mentors emerging writers. A Girl / Woman / Teacher / Poet: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B9LXFJ9Q/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_N4RA0RKH9JMSNSZHE74Q

QLPOR Presents A Saturday Night Poetry & Short Stories Special!

Sun, 28 Aug 2022 00:00:00 GMT

"The difference between poetry and short stories is not always clear, especially with the popularity of prose, narrative poetry, and micro-fiction. But to establish some differences, short stories usually still follow the five plot points; poetry is not dependent on that and can be presented in various forms, whether traditional verse or something contemporary. Poetry must make complex messages as condensed yet effective as possible, while short stories focus more on building characters and themes." Poets Kevin M. Hibshman and John Patrick Robbins will share poems and short stories from their new chapbook, The Mirror Masks Nothing. The chapbook is split between two writers taking a deep introspective look into their lives and work. It is raw, dangerous, unfiltered, and beautiful all the same. Kevin M. Hibshman and John Patrick Robbins leave no stone unturned and pull no punches in this unique first-of-its-kind book with Whiskey City Press. If your looking for soul then look no further than The Mirror Masks Nothing (The Mirror Masks Nothing: Robbins, John Patrick, Hibshman, Kevin M.: 9798831304831: Amazon.com: Books). To read the authors' bios, please visit: https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/67171656/poetry-and-short-stories "What is the difference between poetry and a short story? I need the answer in 3 to 5 sentences." eNotes Editorial, 21 Dec. 2010, https://www.enotes.com/homework-help/what-difference-between-poetry-short-story-ne-396642. Accessed 24 Aug. 2022.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Takudzwa Chikepe

Tue, 23 Aug 2022 00:00:00 GMT

Takudzwa Chikepe, famously known as VaChikepe: The Poet, is one of the best writing poets from Zimbabwe. A two-time featured poet at the Bridgewater International Poetry Festival; last year, he won The International Reggae And World Music Award (IRAWMA): Best Poet in the Mutabaruka Category (the first African to win this Award) amongst other awards. VaChikepe is also the founder of VaChikepe And The Hundred Sailors, the publisher of “The Sailors Review” newsletter/journal. He is currently studying for his Master of Divinity at Duke University in North Carolina.VaChikepe: The Poet believes that poetry is a calling; he uses different states of mind, music, and spirituality to define and express poetry; and he also believes that “Art is not just a subject, but a financial therapy that can heal nations.” The Sailors Review https://youtu.be/ctxFTlhVRQ8. 1. The Life of a Poet: Part 1 https://youtu.be/-6Krv3B2BFU. Part 2 https://youtu.be/Y6jlwUUCJeg

QLPOR Presents Sisters in the Name of Poetry

Thu, 01 Sep 2022 00:00:00 GMT

Noted poets Alyson Shore Adler, Kathy Barham, Cathleen Cohen, and Christina E. Johnson will read poems that touch on topics such as the "now," social concerns, the power of nature, influences, and mortality. They will also share poetry focusing on life's "lighter" side since resilience is also important. To read the poets' bios, please visit https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/66487686/sisters-in-the-name-of-poetry The mission of Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio is to provide a live format for emerging, mid-career, and established poets to showcase their work. Whether traditional poetry or spoken word, the show offers an online vehicle for artists to engage in conversational interviews about poetry. If you would like to be a guest on QL: POR, please contact the host, Dr. Michael Anthony Ingram, at maingram@gmx.com. You can also visit the website at qlpor.com to learn more about the podcast. .

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Diana Raab, PhD

Thu, 18 Aug 2022 00:00:00 GMT

Diana Raab, MFA, PhD, is a poet, memoirist, blogger, speaker, and award-winning author of thirteen books. Her work has been published and anthologized in thousands of publications. She frequently speaks on writing for healing and transformation. Raab blogs for Psychology Today, The Wisdom Daily, The Good Men Project, Thrive Global, and is a guest blogger for many others. She’s the author of two memoirs: Regina’s Closet: Finding My Grandmother’s Secret Journal and Healing with Words: A Writer’s Cancer Journey, and five poetry collections. She’s the editor of two anthologies: Writers and Their Notebooks and Writers on the Edge. Her poetry chapbook, An Imaginary Affair: Poems Whispered to Neruda, was released in July 2022 (Finishing Line Press). Many of her talks are based upon her book, Writing for Bliss: A Seven-Step Program for Telling Your Story and Transforming Your Life, and its accompanying book: Writing for Bliss: A Companion Journal. Conversation Cards for Meaningful Storytelling are based on these two books. Website: https://dianaraab.com. Chapbook: An Imaginary Affair: Poems Whispered to Neruda https://www.amazon.com/dp/1646628314/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_X4PRQR50049AKTG3F785?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Lesley Traynor

Sat, 20 Aug 2022 19:00:00 GMT

Lesley Traynor is a Scottish writer published nationally and internationally. In 2021, her most recent chapbook of poetry, Thrawn, was published by Hybriddreich. Her poem, ‘Towards Stromness,’ was accepted into the George McKay Brown Fellowship Centenary archive, and her poetry and poetry films representing her experience of Lockdown were accepted into the Elphinstone Institute archive. Winner of 2019 Edinburgh International Book Festival memoir writing prize and short-listed for the 2019 Beyond Borders International writing prize. She is a trustee of the Federation of Writers (Scotland), a former Director of the Scottish Writers’ Centre, and has an MLitt in Creative Writing. She is currently researching a Shetland-based novel for her MRes in Creative Practice with the University of the Highlands and Islands while transcribing seventeenth-century documents for the Orkney Archives. Passionate about supporting women’s voices, she founded the inclusive collective Women With Fierce Words in 2016, winning the 2021 Jonni Stanton International Award for a filmed event. Her poetry films have been screened at Celtic Connections, Beyond Border Literary Festival, and the Wigtown Book Festival. Facebook@womenwithfiercewords L A Traynor/Lesley Traynor Twitter @latraynor Instagram latraynor4060

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Faleeha Hassan

Tue, 16 Aug 2022 00:00:00 GMT

She is a poet, teacher, editor, writer, and playwright born in Najaf, Iraq, in 1967, who now lives in the United States. Faleeha is the first woman to write poetry for children in Iraq. She received her master's degree in Arabic literature and has now published 25 books. Her poems have been translated into English, Turkmen, Bosnian, Indian, French, Italian, German, Kurdish, Spain, Korean, Greek, Serbia, Albanian, Pakistani, Romanian, Malayalam, ODIA, and Nepali language. Ms. Hassan has received many awards in Iraq and throughout the Middle East for her poetry and short stories. Faleeha Hassan has also had her poems and short stories published in avariety of American magazines such as: Philadelphia poets 22, Harbinger Asylum, Brooklyn Rail April 2016, Screaming Mamas, The Galway Review, Words Without Borders, TXTOBJX, Intranslation, SJ Magazine, Nondoc, Wordgathering, SCARLET LEAF REVIEW, Courier-Post, I am not a Silent Poet, Taos Journal, Inner Child Press, Atlantic City Press, SJ Magazine, Intranslation Magazine, The Guardian, Words Without Borders, Courier-Post, Life and Legends, Wordgathering, SCARLET LEAF REVIEW, Indiana Voice Journal, The Bees Are Dead, IWA, Poetry Soup, Poetry Adelaide Literary Magazine, Philly, The Fountain Magazine, DRYLAND, The Blue Mountain Review, Otoliths, Taos Journal of Poetry and Art, TXTOBJX, DODGING THE RAIN, Poetry Adelaide Literary Magazine, NonDoc Philly, DRYLAND, American Poetry Review, The Fountain Magazine, Uljana Wolf, Arcs, Tiferet and Ice Cream Poetry Anthology, Dryland Los Angeles underground art & writing Magazine, Setu Magazine, Opa Anthology of contemporary, BACOPA Literary Review, Better than Starbucks Magazine, Tweymatikh ZQH Magazine, TUCK Magazine, Street Light Press. For additional biographical information, please visit https://kvisit.com/7QE/5IgH.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Alexander Poster

Sun, 14 Aug 2022 00:00:00 GMT

QLPOR Presents Matthew Descovia Returns!

Thu, 11 Aug 2022 00:00:00 GMT

Bio: Proud Father. Anti Human Trafficking Advocate. Women's Right Advocate. Lyricist. Empathetic Writer. "one voice could change the word." The mission of Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio is to provide a live format for emerging, mid-career, and established poets to showcase their work. Whether traditional poetry or spoken word, the show offers an online vehicle for artists to engage in conversational interviews about poetry. If you would like to be a guest on QL: POR, please contact the host, Dr. Michael Anthony Ingram, at maingram@gmx.com. You can also visit the website at qlpor.com to learn more information about the podcast.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents LaVan Robinson

Tue, 09 Aug 2022 00:00:00 GMT

I’m a poet and writer from Philadelphia, but I reside in Lancaster, PA. I’m a 13-year veteran of the military. I’ve self-published 8 books of poetry on Amazon and Kindle books. Available Now. The mission of Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio is to provide a live format for emerging, mid-career, and established poets to showcase their work. Whether traditional poetry or spoken word, the show offers an online vehicle for artists to engage in conversational interviews about poetry. If you would like to be a guest on QL: POR, please contact the host Dr. Michael Anthony Ingram at maingram@gmx.com. You can also visit the website at qlpor.com.

AaronRPoems.com and QLPOR Present Poetically Correct Summer Contest 2

Fri, 05 Aug 2022 00:00:00 GMT

Aaron R. The Poet sponsors multiple poetry contests throughout the year. The 2022 finalists in the Summer Edition 2 contest are @free.k_, @julietmarietaylor, @konscience101, @lyricalfaith, @onlykeyswill, @she_so_cold, and @tinys_creation. The winner will be announced! The mission of Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio is to provide a live format for emerging, mid-career, and established poets to showcase their work. Whether traditional poetry or spoken word, the show offers an online vehicle for artists to engage in conversational interviews about poetry. If you would like to be a guest on QL: POR, please contact the host, Dr. Michael Anthony Ingram at maingram@gmx.com. You can also visit the website at qlpor.com. to find out more information about the podcast.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Kashiana Singh

Thu, 04 Aug 2022 00:00:00 GMT

Kashiana Singh (http://www.kashianasingh.com) calls herself a work practitioner and embodies the essence of her TEDx talk - Work as Worship into her every day. Her chapbook Crushed Anthills from Yavanika Press in 2020 is a journey that unravels memory through 10 cities. She proudly serves as a Managing Editor for Poets Reading the News, and her voice is read and heard on various international platforms. Kashiana’s first poetry collection is called, Shelling Peanuts and Stringing Words. Her newest full-length collection, Woman by the Door has just been released with Apprentice House Press. Kashiana lives in North Carolina and carries her various geopolitical homes within her poetry.Besides being a learner of poetry, Kashiana’s last corporate assignment spanning 16 years was as Vice President, Health and Benefits Operations with Alight Solutions.

QLPOR Proudly Presents Pamela Hasan (Poetic Hummingbird)

Tue, 02 Aug 2022 00:00:00 GMT

Pamela Hasan is the author of Poetic Lessons, a collection of poetry about love, loss, grief, and empowerment. She writes poetry using the pen name Poetic Hummingbird. Through poetry, Poetic Hummingbird uses melodic melodies and rhythmic rhymes to invoke conversations that are often difficult to approach. She is known for writing/reciting poetry for collegiate programs centered around diversity, equity, and inclusion. She poetically weaves words together to encourage her readers to pause and reflect on their individual experiences with love, grief, self-worth, and pain. She empowers her readers to have a grateful heart and an optimistic spirit and to love and live unapologetically, without hesitation or reservation. Poetic Lessons is available on Amazon. To order a signed copy of Poetic Lessons, visit https://poetichummingbirdpoetry.com/. A portion of the proceeds from Poetic Lessons is donated to Widows Closets Grieve Believe Achieve Rebuild Program, which provides financial assistance to help widows/widowers acquire the basic necessities for survival. Are you in need of a daily jolt of positivity? Follow Poetic Hummingbird Poetry on Facebook and Instagram for inspirational notes and poetic quotes that promote awareness and restore hope or send an email to @poetichummingbird@gmail.com. “People either become blessings or Poetic Lessons.”

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Kathrine Yets

Sat, 30 Jul 2022 18:00:00 GMT

iLearn, iTeach Kathrine Yets lives in St. Francis, Wisconsin, U.S. She is an avid educator and poet. Her poetry can be found in many literary magazines and anthologies, including Blue Heron Review, Universal Oneness Anthology, River & South Review, and 5th Wall Press. In 2017, she won the Jade Ring Award from the Wisconsin Writers' Association. She has two chapbooks, So I Can Write (Cyberwit) and The Animal Within (Unsolicited Press). Her new chapbook iLearn, iTeach is forthcoming from Cyberwit. When she is not teaching or writing, she can be found on the shores of Lake Michigan, taking walks with her husband.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Teresa Pearsall-Young

Thu, 28 Jul 2022 00:00:00 GMT

Teresa Pearsall-Young is a native of Philadelphia, Pa, and was recently married to Pastor Anthony Young in 2021. She graduated from Overbrook High School in Philadelphia & earned an Associate Arts Degree from Southern New Hampshire University in 2019. Teresa has an extensive background in the Customer Service Healthcare field. Teresa surrendered her life to the Lord 22 years ago and has faced some struggles but has never given up on Christ. Teresa is a mother of one biological daughter, a grandmother of three, and a friend to many. God has blessed Teresa with a heart for helping people and the gifts of administrative help in the corporate world and ministry. Teresa is passionate about cooking; (ask folks about her potato salad and banana pudding) and most passionate about writing. Her writing extends into instructional documentation, short stories, and, her favorite, poetry. Teresa has been writing since a young teen, authoring stories, plays, and songs. Her writing talents went to another level when she gave her life to Christ. She has prepared many theme-based poems and writings for women's conferences and family dedications and continues to write about the wrongs and rights of life, always giving God the glory. ‘Seeds, Trees, Branches & Leaves, Teresa’s first book published in May 2021, is a compilation of poems and ‘stories’ summing up testimonies of life Before and After HIM, with the purpose of sharing how life’s journey and knowing Christ changed her life. The book is available on Amazon and other outlets. Teresa continues in ministry circles, being fed in the word and creatively sharing what has been learned about Jesus and the Kingdom of God. She has a heart for hurting women and hopes to help them find healing from their pain by expressing what they have been carrying so it will no longer hinder their future progress.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents LaToiya Whipple

Tue, 19 Jul 2022 00:00:00 GMT

LaToiya Whipple is the founder, Chief Executive Officer, and Life Coach of Rise Against The Odds LLC, a remote life coaching firm. I invite you to contact me to collectively discover techniques and tools; to transform your life personally and/or professionally. Let’s navigate to formulating a roadmap to wellness. LaToiya has been the keynote speaker for high school seniors heading to college. LaToiya Whipple, is a Preacher, College Professor, Motivational Public Speaker, Life Coach, and Author. LaToiya Whipple earned a Master's Degree in Education with an emphasis in Higher Education Leadership. In addition to having earned a Master’s Degree in Nonprofit Leadership. Furthermore, she also has earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Sociology. LaToiya can be contacted for bookings, life coaching, as well as motivational public speaking via email: riseagasinttheodds1042021@gmail.com, or on social media at L Diamond Whipple on Instagram. “Broken, Crushed, Shattered, Mended, Healed: How to Survive a Broken Heart”, is available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble. Broken, Crushed, Shattered, Mended, Healed: How to Survive a Broken Heart by LaToiya Whipple MA BA, Paperback | Barnes & Noble..LaToiya Whipple is currently divorced with no children at the moment.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Teresa E. Gallion

Tue, 12 Jul 2022 00:00:00 GMT

Teresa E. Gallion was born in Shreveport, Louisiana and moved to Illinois at the age of 15. She completed her undergraduate training at the University of Illinois Chicago and received her master’s degree in Psychology from Bowling Green State University in Ohio. She retired from New Mexico state government in 2012. Teresa is a seeker on a journey to work on unfolding spiritually in this present lifetime. Writing is a spiritual exercise for Teresa. Her passions are traveling the world and hiking the mountain and desert landscapes of the western United States. The land is sacred ground and her spiritual temple where she goes for quiet reflection and contemplation. She has published four books: Walking Sacred Ground, Contemplation in the High Desert, Chasing Light, a finalist in the 2013 New Mexico/Arizona Book Awards and her most recent book, Scent of Love, a finalist in the 2021 New Mexico/Arizona Book Awards. Her work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. You may preview her work at http://teresagallion.yolasite.com/

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Natalia Lazarus

Thu, 07 Jul 2022 00:00:00 GMT

Natalia Lazarus, a woman for all seasons, is a talented, captivating, and alluring International Actor, Stage Producer, Director, and Acting Coach with over 30 years in the Entertainment Industry. She is Syd Field’s “docent” and one of the few in the world authorized to teach his screenwriting technique. Natalia was privileged to have studied with Syd for 6 years. Natalia Lazarus is the Artistic Director at the helm of The Promenade Playhouse and the CEO/Founder of the prestigious and highly revered Los Angeles Performing Arts Conservatory in Santa Monica, CA which celebrated its 25th Anniversary Year in 2021. Since 1996 the LAPAC has offered numerous programs - Acting, Screenwriting, Directing, Filmmaking, and Personal Growth technique that she created and developed. In continuing its celebratory year, the LAPAC was also granted full accreditation by the National Association of Schools of Theatre (N.A.S.T.), a fete more than 5 years in the making. Lazarus, a woman with artistic, creative, and international flair, is currently exploring a new chapter in her extensive career as an author. Released on February14th, 2022, Natalia’s lyrical and poignant Debut is an Award-Winning, Autobiographical Love Story - in Verse - entitled My Love Affair: Thorns & Roses published by Central Park South Publishing. Natalia’s book rose to the Top 25 best-selling Poetry/Romance releases on Amazon in its first week. Delving into this new creative outlet with fervor, the book captures Natalia’s authentic emotions which were rooted from a whirlwind romance. The book will be released in English & French complimenting Natalia’s multi-lingual skills. (She speaks French, Spanish, Italian, and English fluently),

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Melody Gee

Thu, 30 Jun 2022 00:00:00 GMT

Melody S. Gee is the author of The Dead in Daylight (Cooper Dillon Books, 2016) and Each Crumbling House (Perugia Press, 2010), winner of the Perugia Press Prize. She is the recipient of Kundiman poetry and fiction fellowships, two Pushcart Prize nominations, and the Robert Watson Literary Prize. Her poems, essays, and reviews appear in Commonweal Magazine, Blood Orange Review, Lantern Review, and The Rappahannock Review. She is a freelance writer and editor living in St. Louis, Missouri with her husband and daughters. "Melody Gee’s gorgeous poems offer both divine wounds and delicious consolations. At the intersections of the familial and the sacred, The Convert’s Heart is Good to Eat reminds us that what is created is also consumed. Beautiful, sensory, and aching, this collection reminds us that not all hungers are mortal ones." – Traci Brimhall, author of Our Lady of the Ruins

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Caylin Capra-Thomas

Tue, 28 Jun 2022 00:00:00 GMT

Caylin Capra-Thomas's works include the chapbooks Inside My Electric City (YesYes Books) and The Marilyn Letters (dancing girl press). Her latest work is Iguana, Iguana (2022). Her poems have appeared in journals including New England Review, Pleiades, Copper Nickel, 32 Poems, Hayden's Ferry Review, and many others. The 2018-2020 poet in-residence at Idyllwild Arts Academy, she now lives in Columbia, Missouri, where she is a PhD student in English and creative writing. Alive to the beauty and anxiety of new worlds and people, Iguana Iguana imagines a tough and tender soundtrack for tumbleweeds in search of roots. Recursive, deliberate, and as adaptive as their titular lizard, these poems invite us to listen so as to better hear “...the sweet shriek / of those far-off trains you suspect are coming / to claim you. To lay open the hills you haven’t seen.” Caylin Capra-Thomas writes about understanding the strangers we meet and knowing the stranger within. In doing so, she maps a blueprint for "lay[ing] into the world / like it's good enough".

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Gordon Ferris

Sat, 25 Jun 2022 19:00:00 GMT

Gordon Ferris was born and raised in Finglas, a North West suburb of Dublin. In the early eighties, he moved to Donegal where he has lived ever since. He started writing in 2014 and has had many short stories and poems in publications including Hidden Channel, A New Ulster, The Galway Review, Impspired Magazine, and Lothlorien Poetry Journal. He has also won prizes in the summer 2020 HITA Creative Writing Competition for his poem 'Mother', and won the winter competition for his poem 'The Silence'. Gordon was awarded a Poetry Town Bursary by Poetry Ireland.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Niki Tulk

Tue, 21 Jun 2022 00:00:00 GMT

Niki Tulk is an ex-pat Australian and experimental theatre-maker, improviser, writer, poet, and author of Performing the Wound: Practicing a Feminist Theatre of Becoming (Routledge, 2022). She currently lives with her family and rescue dog in the White Mountains, New Hampshire. Her newest work is O - This stunning collection of poems from writer & performance artist Niki Tulk explores the aftermath of sexual assault. Tulk unearths myths and folklore, revealing profound truths about the stories we craft around violence, womanhood, and justice. For more details, visit www.nikitulk.com.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Ahmad Al-Khatat

Tue, 14 Jun 2022 00:00:00 GMT

Ahmad Al-Khatat was born in Baghdad, Iraq. His work has appeared in print and online journals globally. He has poems translated into several languages such as Farsi, Chinses, Spanish, Albanian, Romanian. He has published some poetry chapbooks, and a collection of short stories. He has been nominated for Best of the Net 2019 and was also nominated for the Pushcart Price 2020.

QLPOR Proudly Presents Sylvia "Ladi Di" Beverly and Special Guests

Thu, 16 Jun 2022 00:00:00 GMT

Sylvia Dianne Beverly is an Internationally acclaimed poet, presenting poetry in London, England, at the Lewisham Theater. A collection of her work is housed at George Washington University's Gelman Library. Ladi Di, as she is affectionally called is a proud member of Poets on the Green Line, Poetry X Hunger, Poetry Poster Project and Voices of Woodlawn. She celebrated the 40th Anniversary of Host Grace Cavalieri, reading on her show "The Poet and the Poem" at the Library of Congress Experience. She is a founding member of the Anointed PENS (Poets Empowered to Nurture Souls) Poetry Ministry, out of Ebenezer AME Church, an alum of Poets in Progress with Poet Laureate of District of Columbia, the late Dolores Kendrick. She is author of two books (Forever In Your Eyes and Cooking Up South). Recently her poetry appears in several International anthologies, Moonstone Press Anthology and part of Mike Maggio”s 30/30 Series for National Poetry month 2021 and 2022. The late Dr. Maya Angelou is her hero. She is the proud Matriarch of her family. Celebrating Black History 2018, she and her family received posthumously for her Dad, a “Congressional Gold Medal” from the United States Marines. She is a Poet of Excellence in Prince Georges County 2020. syladydi@comcast.net. Sylvia Beverly Facebook Instagram @lovepoet13

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Mela Blust

Tue, 07 Jun 2022 00:00:00 GMT

Since seeking publication just a few years ago, Mela's work has been nominated for multiple awards and has appeared or is forthcoming in dozens of literary journals and magazines. Her debut poetry collection, Skeleton Parade, is available with Apep Publications and her second collection, They Found a Woman’s Body, is available with Vegetarian Alcoholic Press. She is a contributing editor for Barren Magazine, and can be followed at https://twitter.com/melablust

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Archna Sahni

Thu, 09 Jun 2022 00:00:00 GMT

Poet / Life Coach Archna Sahni is a Toronto poet who lives between India and Canada. She was born in India and raised in the cities of Delhi, Chandigarh, Mumbai, and Kuala Lumpur. She immigrated to Canada in 1992 to make Toronto home, but often unexpectedly finds herself back in India for long periods, only to head back to Canada again. She is the author of First Fire (Calicut, India: Yeti, 2005) and Another Nirvana (Toronto: Mawenzi, 2018). Archna has published widely in literary magazines and performed her work in Canada, India, and USA. Her other avatars are educator and life coach; as life coach, Archna empowers persons by helping them shift from self-doubt to self-trust. Her book Another Nirvana can be purchased at https://www.mawenzihouse.com/product/another-nirvana/ and she can be reached at archnadocuments@gmail.com.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Susannah Kathleen Douglas

Tue, 31 May 2022 00:00:00 GMT

Susannah Kathleen Douglas hails from the beautiful twin-island Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. She is the last child of Merlin and Lloyd Douglas. At 44 years old, she is a divorced mother of two children, both of whom have challenged her to be the best version of herself. As a disciple of Jesus Christ, Susannah believes that the Bible is the best book ever written. An entrepreneur, Susannah’s passion is connecting with people. Her desire is to see them fulfill the will of God for their lives and to walk in Authenticity. With a Diploma in Cosmetology, Susannah has helped to transform people from the inside, and out, believing that true Beauty radiates from within. After years of running away from the call to write, Susannah finally surrendered this aspect of her life to the Lord - writing had always been a passion but she never felt equipped or qualified to do so. In 2021, she signed up for a "Writing to Heal" class and with the support and encouragement from the class teacher, she began writing again, with purpose. Susannah's love for poetry was ignited. Something about poetry caused her to express her once silenced, suffocated feelings and gave her a new level of hope and fulfillment. Susannah began to write her books, hopefully soon to be published, and began to share her poetry with a few friends. She went deeper and wrote more with the support and encouragement received. Believing in God’s timing, she knows He is orchestrating this season of her life by aligning her with the right people. For Susannah, the future is filled with the manifestation of all that God has promised with His Holy Spirit as her guide. She knows that when the time is right the Lord will allow all her books that HE has placed inside of her to be published.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Teresa James

Thu, 02 Jun 2022 00:00:00 GMT

Author Teresa James is known for her poetry and art shared throughout social media as Love of a Poet. Where you can actually interact with her. She is passionate about the creativity and beauty of poetry. She mostly writes short poems about love and relationships. She is a mother of seven children, a horticulturist, and philanthropist. While going through heartbreaks, struggles, and grief throughout life. She learned to write her emotions down on paper to vent and release pain. She now bleeds ink by writing and sharing through her poetry. "The beauty of a poem is not in the length of the content...It's in the power of the words." ❤

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents S. Yarberry

Tue, 24 May 2022 00:00:00 GMT

S. Yarberry is a trans poet and writer. They currently serve as the Poetry Editor of The Spectacle. S. has their MFA in Poetry from Washington University in St. Louis and is now a PhD candidate in literature at Northwestern University. S. is also the author of a new book of poetry A Boy in The City. A Boy in the City interrogates how our bodies both seduce and elude. Told through the lens of an intimate partnership, Yarberry explores the way we inhabit and are simultaneously distanced from our bodies–our loose seams, our disappearances and infinities, our longing among the brilliance and mundanity of the “streets and lights and strangers” of our cities. The collection feels like an easy Sunday morning a few months after a break-up; a raw nerve, romantic and splintered. Carl Phillips calls Yarberry a “defiant new voice” who “writes past the ‘festoonery’ of gender and easy binaries.” Mary Jo Bang says the poems in A Boy in the City are, “incisive, erotic, artfully antiro- mantic and Paul Tran says, “Yarberry’s gift to us is that we can become anything, too.” S. Yarberry Pronouns: they/them Website: https://syarberry.com/

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Cliff Bernier

Thu, 26 May 2022 00:00:00 GMT

Clifford Bernier’s The Silent Art won the Gival Press Poetry Award. He is also the author of Dark Berries and Earth Suite, each selected by the Montserrat Review as a Best Chapbook. He appears in The Write Blend poetry circle collection and accompanies the Voices of Woodlawn poets on harmonica. In addition, Mr. Bernier appears on harmonica in the Portuguese “Accumulated Dust” world music series and performs regularly in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia. He has been featured in readings in Los Angeles, Seattle, Chicago, Buffalo, Detroit, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and the Washington, DC area, including the Library of Congress, the Arts Club of Washington, George Washington University (where he is a member of the Washington Writer’s Collection) and the Bethesda Writer’s Center. He has been a reader for the Washington Prize and a judge for the National Endowment for the Arts’ Poetry Out Loud recitation contest. From 2003-2008 he hosted the Poesis reading series in Arlington, Virginia, and performed with the Jazzpoetry band at venues in and around Washington, DC. He has been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes and a Best of the Net Award. Visit Cliff's website at http://cliffbernier.com/

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Julie Valin

Tue, 10 May 2022 01:00:00 GMT

JULIE VALIN turns songs into poems, since she is perpetually influenced by music, and she was too shy to be in a rock ‘n’ roll band. Her poems have appeared in The Gasconade Review, The Black Shamrock, The Poeming Pigeon, Chiron Review, Red Fez, and more, plus several anthologies & collections, including the Punk Rock Chapbook Series by Epic Rites Press. She is a book designer for her business, Self to Shelf Publishing Services, and works at her community library, and is also a co-founder of the celebrated after-hours poetry press, Six Ft. Swells. She loves piling books artistically on her nightstand and running through the woods knowing nothing is really chasing her. She lives in Northern California with her husband and daughter. Nothing dies for good in Songs for Ghosts, Julie Valin's second poetry collection. In plainspoken and free verse rock 'n' roll style, Valin celebrates the moments that make and break us, travels that invigorate us, the people who mean the world to us, and the feelings attached to the ceaseless entrance and exit of these moments. Memories intertwined with songs is a motif, and, with a soundtrack included in the back, the book reads as if it's an invitation to hang out with the poet, listening to her handmade mixtape. To order a signed copy of Songs for Ghosts directly from Julie, please see below: http://tinyurl.com/mcsongsforghosts Please visit the Meadowlark's website: meadowlarkbookstore.com

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Austin Davis

Sun, 24 Apr 2022 17:00:00 GMT

Austin Davis is a 22 year old poet and senior at ASU. Austin is the founder of AZ Hugs For the Houseless and the author of “Lotus & The Apocalypse,” available now from Outcast Press.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Ellen Thea

Tue, 26 Apr 2022 00:00:00 GMT

Ellen Thea is an award-winning performance poet, drummer, dancer, and holistic counselor, utilizing tarot, astrology, crystals, and energy work. Her journey has taken her from New York City to South Florida to rural Alaska. She has been writing and performing almost her entire life, learning to write & starting dance at age 4 with her first audition (on a Broadway stage) at age 5, writing and performing short original sketches by third grade. Ellen's father, a talented visual artist, both inspired and intimidated her. Growing up in the cultural wonderland of NYC in the '50's, '60's and '70's, Ellen chose to use words and movement as both her paintbrush and medium. Ellen received a bachelor's degree in psychology with an (almost) minor in theatre from Union College, Schenectady, NY 1978. Her master's degree is in marriage and family therapy with a specialization in medical family therapy from Nova Southeastern University, Davie, Florida 1996. After college Ellen moved to South Florida where she had her three children. After suffering a head injury from a vicious mugging, Ellen heeded the counsel of a Cherokee medicine woman, who sent her to Alaska for a healing walk. Ellen's awards include Bitterroot Poetry Magazine Award 1986, the Douglas Freels Poetry Award 2002, the Dancing Poetry Competition 2013, and the Poetry Matters Award 2014. Her book, "On My Way To The Apocalypse" (a 55 page non-linear prose poem), was published by Dingaroo Press in 2012. (That same year, Ellen became a grandmother.) She's created and performed original works (full shows and as a featured artist) in New York, Florida, Ohio, Michigan and Alaska. Her work (both writing and esoteric) has been featured on the radio. Ellen's also been a newsreader and d.j. on the local radio station. In addition, she's created several specialized curriculums & workshops for children through adult learners.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Diane Wilbon Parks

Thu, 28 Apr 2022 00:00:00 GMT

Diane Wilbon Parks is an accomplished poet, visual artist, and author; Diane has written two poetry collections and a Children’s Book. She is the founder of “The Write Blend”, a culturally diverse poetry circle, and has been recognized as one of Prince George’s County Poets of Excellence and Literary Leaders. She has celebrated the installation of one of her poems and artwork as a permanent sign at the North Patuxent Research Refuge. Diane’s poetry has been widely featured nationally and internationally, online, and in newsletters, online magazines and journals, anthologies: Random House’s International Anthology, “Singing in the Dark”, and International Magazine, Wexford Women, and locally in the Annapolis, Westfield Magazine. She has been an Expert Consultant to the National Trust for Historic Preservation at Woodlawn and the National Endorsement for the Arts. Diane’s interviews have been included in the 43rd and 44th Anniversary of Grace Cavalieri’s “The Poet and The Poem at the Library of Congress. Diane is a USAF Veteran, a Member of UMD’s, Phi Kappa Phi’s Honor Society, a PMP - currently working as a Sr. IT Program Manager. Diane resides in Maryland with her husband; she has two adult children and a new granddaughter.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Teal Jandrain

Thu, 21 Apr 2022 00:00:00 GMT

Teal Jandrain is a prismatic emanation of rainbows in human form. She's been acting most of her life, appearing in over fifty theatrical productions in her home town of Fort Collins Colorado. She attended acting school at The American Musical and Dramatic Academy in Hollywood. Some of her favorite roles include Abigail Williams in The Crucible, Jill in Equus, The Moon in Lorca's Blood Wedding, Susie in Wait a Until Dark, and as the titular character in a trio of music videos for the band White Water Ramble called, A Band Widow's Lament. Teal's love of acting, screenwriting, and the study of human behavior helped fuel her passion for poetry. She loves the freedom of being a poet because she's always proudly scribbled outside the lines. Her ultimate dream is to make films that stir souls. Teal often wears costumes whilst galavanting in what's commonly known as "the real world," and fearlessly defends the dwindling magic remaining in the universe. Her mother Kate also appeared on QLPOR, and read poetry. Looking at bios from previous episodes has given Teal tremendous new goals. She intends to never grow up, dress more eccentrically the older she gets, always collect unicorns, obsessively write, nurture the growth of empathy among fellow dreamers, and inspire those who have forgotten how to dream to do so again. After walking away from 15 tough years in the restaurant industry, Teal started a YouTube channel called, TealztheRealDeal on January 1st, 2021, and completed her goal of releasing original poetry every day for 365 days. As an old soul, Teal frequents antique stores where she enjoys smelling old books and perusing treasures of days gone by. She still calls people on the phone, handwrites letters, and cherishes her VHS and cassette tape collection. During the pandemic,she became a collage artist which she sees as poetry through imagery. Teal is often described as "weird," she sees it as a huge compliment.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Matthew Descovia

Tue, 19 Apr 2022 00:00:00 GMT

Bio: Proud Father. Anti Human Trafficking Advocate. Women's Right Advocate. Lyricist. Empathetic Writer. "one voice could change the word."

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Fernando Rover Jr.

Sat, 16 Apr 2022 18:00:00 GMT

Fernando Rover Jr. is a San Antonio based interdisciplinary artist. His work comprises of elements of prose, poetry, photography, film, and performance art. He holds a dual Bachelor’s degree in English and history from Texas Lutheran University and a Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies from Prescott College. His interests range from millennial interests to popular culture, Black male queer experiences, feminism, and impact-based art. His works has appeared in numerous publications and anthologies, including Odyssey Online, Caged Bird, Black Press USA, and the San Antonio Observer. He is the author of two poetry collections: ‘Labyrinth’ (2019), winner of the 2019 Best Indie Book Award for Poetry and the 2020 Literary Titan Award as well as shortlisted for the 2020 Shelf Unbound Independent Book Awards, and ‘Sanctuary’: A ‘Labyrinth’ Redux (2020), both available on Amazon. His new book, ‘Maverick’ (2022) is an interdisciplinary art project built around the thesis of agency under two central themes: language as architecture and personal as political. Influenced by his hometown of San Antonio, Texas, Rover Jr. sets photographs of the east side of San Antonio against poetry that illustrates the notion of gentrification of the mind; the metaphysical and metaphorical experiences of displacement, anxiety, consciousness, and reclamation. The book, along with the art film was released March 20th, 2022 and is available on Amazon. Rover Jr. recently became the founder of ‘Frame Reference Media’, a third-space interdisciplinary media sole proprietorship with a focus on Black storytelling. For more info on Fernando Rover Jr. and how to engage with him, follow him on all social media platforms at @framereferencemedia and visit and check out his work at www.framereferencemedia.com.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Karen Poppy

Tue, 12 Apr 2022 00:00:00 GMT

Karen Poppy has work published in numerous literary journals, magazines, and anthologies. Her chapbooks CRACK OPEN/EMERGENCY (2020) and OUR OWN BEAUTIFUL BRUTALITY (2021) are both published by Finishing Line Press. Her chapbook, EVERY POSSIBLE THING, is published by Homestead Lighthouse Press (2020). An attorney licensed in California and Texas, Karen Poppy lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. More at karenpoppy.com.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents John Patrick Robbins

Thu, 07 Apr 2022 00:00:00 GMT

ADULT LANGUAGE AND THEMES John Patrick Robbins is the Mad Editor he is also a North Carolina national treasure and part-time supervillain and overweight male exotic dancer. His work has appeared in the greatest magazines and some places he doesn't run like The Dope Fiend Daily, Fearless Poetry Zine, The New York Times, Better Homes And Gardens, Piker Press, Punk Noir Magazine, The Bathroom Wall, and in the dreams of the poetry community alike. His newest book Rave Reviews To Killer Feedback is out now published by Between Shadows Press. He is also looking to be the writer in residence to your heart and or liquor cabinet because life's too short for sobriety my darlings. Cheers.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Valeri Beers

Sat, 02 Apr 2022 18:00:00 GMT

Valeri Beers is from Bangor, Maine. Her first book was titled ...details... , published by Thomas Hill Publishing. She has been writing all her life and is inspired to write by listening to music and needing to remember things. Valeri has been published in a number of literary magazines including Literature Today, Lit House, The Wicked, Poets of Maine, Qutub Minar Review, Dandelion in a Vase of Roses & Poetry Pasta. Her poetry page is under construction, but it's wordsoftheval2000.wordpress.com.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Mary Oishi

Tue, 05 Apr 2022 00:00:00 GMT

Mary Oishi is Albuquerque’s Poet Laureate (2020-2022). She is the author of Spirit Birds They Told Me (West End Press, 2011), and co-author with her daughter, Aja Oishi, of Rock Paper Scissors (Swimming with Elephants, 2018), finalist for the New Mexico Arizona Book Award. Oishi is published in numerous reviews and anthologies in the United States and internationally, in English and in translation, including 12 Poetas: Antologia De Nuevos Poetas Estadounidenses (La Herrata Feliz and MarEsCierto, 2017), a project of the Mexican Ministry of Culture. She served as Adjunct Professor for the University of New Mexico and is a returning instructor for the Taos Writers Conference (2021 – 2022). Oishi worked as a public radio professional and on-air personality at four radio stations in New Mexico and Colorado for more than 25 years, currently at KSFR-FM Santa Fe. Her social justice activism is life-long. She served as lead facilitator for an LGBTQ youth group for seventeen years, produced Peace Buzz, an event of art-as-protest in 2003, and was an NGO delegate to the UN World Conference Against Racism in 2001.

QLP: OR Presents Point of View: Women in Poetry

Thu, 17 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMT

In celebration of National Women's History Month, Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio (qlpor.com) presents POINT OF VIEW: WOMEN IN POETRY. Noted poets Alyson Shore Adler, Kathy Barham, Cathleen Cohen, and Christina E. Johnson will read their own work and engage in a discussion related to the role of women in the field of poetry. To read the bios of the poets, please visit https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/66487686/women-in-poetry-2022

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Jessica Genia Simon

Thu, 10 Mar 2022 01:00:00 GMT

Jessica Genia [pronounced Genya] Simon's poems have been published in the Atlanta Review, Slipform 2020 Anthology, Moment Magazine, Magnolia: A Journal of Women's Socially Engaged Literature, Vol. II, Edge, Vol. 9, Nature in the Now, Tiny Seed Literary Journal and Super Stoked: An Anthology of Queer Poetry from the Capturing Fire Slam & Summit. She participates widely in DC area poetry readings and events including Capturing Fire Poetry Slam & Summit, DC Guerilla Poetry Insurgency and events at Busboys and Poets. She works at Brady: United Against Gun Violence and lives with her wife in Silver Spring, MD.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Josephine LoRe

Tue, 08 Mar 2022 01:00:00 GMT

International Women's Day 2022 Honoree a pearl in this diamond world ... Josephine LoRe’s words have been read on stage and zoom-rooms, put to music, danced, integrated into art, and published in 11 countries and 4 languages including FreeFall in Canada, Tiny Seed in the US, and journals in Italy, England, Ireland, Germany, and Japan. Josephine has two collections, Unity and the Calgary Herald Bestseller The Cowichan Series. She is a member of the League of Canadian Poets and diverse online reading communities. She received the Norma Epstein Award for Creative Writing and was shortlisted for the 2019 Room Poetry Prize. She teaches workshops, mentors emerging poets, serves as an editor, and judges poetry competitions. She collaborates with artists and musicians, and her poetry can be found on YouTube and Bandcamp. Josephine is a Toronto-born first-generation Canadian of Sicilian descent who completed a Master’s degree in Comparative Literature in France. This candlelight poet lives and creates on land traditionally inhabited by the Piikani, Siksika, Kainai, Tsuut'ina and Nakota peoples. Josephine is grateful to these peoples for bringing language and poetry to this land. https://www.josephinelorepoet.com/

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents DeeLynn Leigh

Thu, 03 Mar 2022 01:00:00 GMT

Deelynn Leigh was born in South Boston, Virginia and grew up with her family in Carson City, Nevada. As a young girl she engulfed her life with athletics and outdoor activities. For relaxation she found her gift for writing while creating short stories. In grade school she wrote her first haiku poem which ignited her love for poetry and the ability to utilize words and strategic rhythms to express herself. Throughout the course of her life, she shared her poetry through spoken word opportunities from private to public stages and published independent works across various poetic volumes. Deelynn attended George Mason University where she earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology and English with a concentration in Poetry. Immediately following she obtained her Master of Arts degree in Religious Education from Liberty University. Deelynn is very passionate about her faith in God through Jesus Christ and seeks to create poetry that glorifies God and encourages others. Her purpose in life is to spread the Word of God to all, striving to do this effectively through her written words. Her poems are a testimony of God’s love, His mercy, and His grace. One of her most motivated scriptures is Jeremiah 29:11 “For I know the plans I have for you declares the Lord, plans to make you prosper and not to harm you, to give you hope and a future.” Her latest book is Lift Up: Inspirational Poems & Devotions which can be purchased online at Amazon.com. DeeLynn is also finishing a new book which will be available later in the year.

Aaron R. The Poet's Poetically Correct Poetry Contest: The New Year's Edition

Thu, 17 Feb 2022 01:00:00 GMT

Aaron R The Poet sponsors multiple poetry contests throughout the year. Chev won the 2022 Winter Edition of the contest. Konscience 101 won 2nd place. Other participants in the contest were Camile.Denine, Indea Hoffman, Miss Kiane, JT Lovegame, Only Keys Will, Sam Oliver, Kyraspeaks, GNRLYLUV (Jess) and Mayangozi and RSenThePoet. Join us for this special program.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Presents Martin Graff

Tue, 25 Jan 2022 01:00:00 GMT

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Rojé Augustin

Thu, 20 Jan 2022 01:00:00 GMT

Rojé Augustin is a native New Yorker who grew up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Her first novel, The Unraveling of Bebe Jones, won the 2013 National Indie Excellence Award in African American fiction. She wrote the novel while a stay-at-home-mom in London and Sydney. In 2013 Rojé’s script The Weekly was selected for the Australian Writer’s Guild prestigious Pathways Program. In May 2020 Rojé published her debut poetry collection, Out of No Way, Madam C.J. Walker and A’Lelia Walker, A Poetic Drama, which tells the story of Madam Walker’s phenomenal life story. Rojé continues to work as a screenwriter, journalist, and producer. She is a dual national currently living in Sydney with her husband and two daughters. When she's not working or spending time with family and friends, Rojé loves to rollerblade through the park while listening to her favorite tunes.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Diana Howard

Thu, 13 Jan 2022 01:00:00 GMT

Diana Howard is a poet and children’s author living along the Missouri River in southeastern South Dakota. She has published two children’s books, Applesauce and Boo Boo La Roo. Her poetry has appeared in several journals and on several websites. She is a member of the South Dakota State Poetry Society and the Poetry Alliance of southwest Florida. Visit her at https://thecottonwoodtree.com/. Winter Solstice by Diana Howard burrows deep into the heart-rendering poetic journey of a daughter trying to love and help her mother who is slowly losing her memory. Through poems and vignettes written over a period of 15 years, the reader will enter a world of denial, confusion, shame, fear, humor, sacrifice, patience and love - finding solace and empathy with an experience many of us go through, yet struggle to find words to describe.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Linda Imbler

Tue, 11 Jan 2022 01:00:00 GMT

Linda Imbler’s poetry collections include six published paperbacks: Big Questions, Little Sleep, Big Questions, Little Sleep” second edition, Lost and Found, Red Is The Sunrise, and Bus Lights, Travel Sights. Soma Publishing has published her four e-book collections, The Sea’s Secret Song, Pairings, a hybrid of short fiction and poetry, and That Fifth Element, and Per Quindecim. Her new book, Spica’s Frequency, will be published on December 1, 2021. Examples of Linda’s poetry and a listing of publications can be found at lindaspoetryblog.blogspot.com. In addition to writing, she helps her husband, a Luthier, build acoustic guitars and steel strings in Wichita, Kansas, U.S.A. They are currently working on number 10.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Christian J. Collier

Sat, 18 Dec 2021 20:00:00 GMT

Christian J. Collier is a Black, Southern writer, arts organizer, and teaching artist who resides in Chattanooga, TN. A 2015 Loft Spoken Word Immersion Fellow, he is also the winner of the 2020 ProForma Contest and the 2019-2020 Seven Hills Review Poetry Contest. He is an accomplished artist, public speaker, and educator who has shared the stage with several members of HBO’s Def Poetry cast, legendary poet and activist Ishmael Reed, Grammy-nominated artist Minton Sparks, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame members The Impressions, etc. Mr. Collier has also given a TED Talk and been featured on an episode of TNT’s State Farm Neighborhood Sessions. Christian J. Collier’s poems of witness have the kind of keen insight that slices to the heart of the subject. The Gleaming of the Blade examines Black masculinity in the contemporary American South, alongside the lingering ghosts of the past, and how it feels to be Black in a country whose divisions and struggles could signal the end of civilization. These poems never shy away, interrogating harsh injustices and contending with the truth of today’s America, a truth sometimes beautiful, sometimes biting.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Ashanti Anderson

Tue, 14 Dec 2021 01:00:00 GMT

Ashanti Anderson (she/her) is an award-winning writer who advocates for health equity, reproductive justice, disability rights, and criminal justice reform through her poetry, prose, playwriting, and more. A Black disabled queer woman herself, Ashanti’s writing frequently explores the connections between identity and health. Her debut short poetry collection, Black Under, is forthcoming with Black Lawrence Press in Fall 2021 after winning the Spring 2020 Black River Chapbook Collection. Black Under reflects the African-American experience over several era, the author leaving no stone unturned in her interrogation of the racialized violence that has occurred throughout history. At once haunting and hopeful, Ashanti “documents atrocities while singing.” Ashanti has collaborated with universities, at-risk youth groups, nonprofits, and healthcare professionals to develop programs and activities that promote diversity, inclusion, and minority health. She received her MFA in Creative Writing in 2018 and went on to teach creative writing courses and workshops for both teens and adults. Leading by example, Ashanti encourages her students to develop multi-dimensional characters, find their unique voice, and do their research Awards and honors: • Winner, Black Lawrence Press Black River Chapbook Competition (Spring 2020) • Winner, Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival Poetry Contest (2018) • Winner, Haley’s Flight, LLC Page-to-Screen Short Film Competition (2017)

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Sophia Naz

Sat, 11 Dec 2021 20:00:00 GMT

Poet, author, editor, translator and artist Sophia Naz has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize; in 2016 for creative nonfiction and in 2018 for poetry. Her work features in numerous literary journals and anthologies, including Rattle,The Penguin Book of Modern Indian Poets, Berfrois, Singing In The Dark, Meridian, Poetry At Sangam, Poetry International Rotterdam, The Adirondack Review, The Wire, Raushniyan, Chicago Quarterly Review, Blaze Vox, Scroll, The Daily O, Cafe Dissensus, RAIOT, Ideas And Futures, Chapati Mystery, Guftugu, Pratik, Gallerie International, Coldnoon, VAYAVYA, The Bangalore Review, Madras Courier and many others.. She has authored the poetry collections Peripheries,(2015) Pointillism, (2017)Date Palms (2017) and Shehnaz, a biography (2019). Open Zero is her fourth poetry collection, published in September 2021 by Yoda Press. Sophia lives in Glen Ellen California and can be found online at www.SophiaNaz.com

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Bill Nevins

Thu, 16 Dec 2021 01:00:00 GMT

Bill Nevins was born in 1947, grew up near New York City, graduated from Iona College and the University of Connecticut grad. School, lived in New England and Pennsylvania and moved to New Mexico in 1996. He is a life- long peace activist who opposed the Vietnam and Iraq wars and also worked to advance the Irish Peace Process. He is a grandfather and a so-called “gold star” parent whose son died in combat in 2013 as a US army soldier in Afghanistan. He’s a retired educator for University of New Mexico and other schools, a publishing journalist, a songwriter and a poet, with two books in print, Heartbreak Ridge and AWE and a 2007 feature film Committing Poetry in Times of War. He is working on a prose/verse memoir. Bill lives with his partner Jeannie Allen in Albuquerque and in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains near Angel Fire, NM. Bill has read his poetry in-person nationally and he has hosted several open mics. He is an active member of the National Writers Union, Cultivating Voices Live online, Southwest Writers, SOMOS of Taos, Irish American Writers and Artists and other cultural groups. He is the Poetry Editor of Logos a Journal of Modern Society and Culture online. Contact: bill_nevins@yahoo.com

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Jamey Boelhower

Thu, 09 Dec 2021 01:00:00 GMT

Jamey Boelhower is a poet and independent author with numerous published works to his name. Not only is Jamey a prolific writer but also he has been an educator for over 20 years. Although his focus is on poetry, Jamey has also made a name for himself with his compelling blogs and popular fictional novel Under the Lights. Jamey’s most recent works include April 2020: A Poetic Time Capsule of Writing and Living During a Pandemic, These Words Believe in Ghosts, and Father and Son: Words Apart, among many others. Throughout his career, Jamey has delved into a variety of topics, including family, heartache, and the mysteries of life. Jamey is well-known for challenging his readers' perspectives and inspiring them to see things in a deeper way. As a loving husband and father of six, Jamey enjoys spending his free time with his family. Currently, he is working on new works that will be released soon.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Heather Corbally Bryant

Tue, 07 Dec 2021 01:00:00 GMT

Heather Corbally Bryant teaches in Writing Program at Wellesley College. She has published an academic book on Elizabeth Bowen, as well as ten books of poetry, the eleventh forthcoming. She is at work on a memoir entitled, Don't Quit Before the Miracle. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Photo credit to Richard Howard

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Catfish McDaris

Fri, 03 Dec 2021 01:00:00 GMT

Catfish McDaris has been active in the small press world for 25 years. He shot howitzers 3 years in the army and used to fish and hunt as a boy in New Mexico. Sometimes he goes down to Lake Michigan and feeds seagulls and dreams of mountain horses. He’s working in a wig shop in a high crime area of Milwaukee. Catfish McDaris’ 25 years of published material is in the Special Archives Collection at Marquette Univ. in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He’s listed in Wikipedia. His ancestors are from the Aniwaya Clan of the Cherokee Nation. He won the Thelonius Monk Award in 2015.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Proudly Presents Cathleen Cohen

Wed, 01 Dec 2021 01:00:00 GMT

Cathleen Cohen was the 2019 Poet Laureate of Montgomery County, PA. A painter and teacher, she founded the We the Poets program at ArtWell, an arts education non-profit in Philadelphia (theartwell.org). Her poems appear in journals such as Apiary, Baltimore Review, Cagibi, East Coast Ink, 6ix, North of Oxford, One Art, Passager, Philadelphia Stories, Rockvale Review and Rogue Agent. Camera Obscura (chapbook, Moonstone Press), appeared in 2017 and Etching the Ghost (Atmosphere Press), 2021. She received the Interfaith Relations Award from the Montgomery County PA Human Rights Commission and the Public Service Award from the National Association of Poetry Therapy. Her paintings are on view at Cerulean Arts Gallery (ceruleanarts.com).

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Dr. Sam Illingworth

Wed, 17 Nov 2021 21:00:00 GMT

Dr Sam Illingworth is an Associate Professor in Academic Practice at Edinburgh University in the UK, where his work and research involves using poetry to help develop dialogue between different audiences. A published poet and award-winning slam artist, Sam hosts the ‘Poetry of Science’ podcast and is also the founder of Consilience, the world’s first peer-reviewed science & poetry journal. You can find out more about Sam and his work by visiting his website: www.samillingworth.com or connect with him on Twitter @samillingworth.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Martina McGowan

Wed, 24 Nov 2021 01:00:00 GMT

Martina McGowan is a physician, poet, writer, public speaker, advocate, and activist in the fight against social, racial, and sexual injustices. She is author of “i am the rage,” a poetic exploration of living inside injustice, February 2021, SourceBooks. 2021 International Book Awards Winner of the Social Change category. Listed by: 1. American Academy of Poets: a. A Poetry Reading List for the 25th Anniversary of National Poetry Month 2021 b. A Poetry Reading List for Summer 2021 2. Woman’s Day among the “20 of the Best Poetry Books to Read in 2021” She is a Poetry Editor for “The Elevation Review Magazine.” Her work has appeared in: Literary Magazines: Lalibreta.online, Mom Egg Review, Poetry is Life, Rigorous Magazine, INK Babies Magazine. Anthologies: "2020: The Year that Changed America," curated by Kevin Powell, “Joined Up Writing: The Second Instalment,” curated by Fin Hall, “the ocean waves'' by The Red Penguin Collection, 2021, “The Voices Real 6” by Poetry Is Life Publishing, 2021, Fixed and Free Poetry Anthology 2021, Black Imagination 2022, curated by Natasha Marin, McSweeny’s Book purchase and contact information: Book: “i am the rage,” https://amzn.to/3tl07ch, IG @martinamcgowan, FB: @MartinaMcGowanMD, Blog: MartinaMcGowan.com. Email: iamtheragebook@gmail.com.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Kevin M. Hibshman

Tue, 16 Nov 2021 01:00:00 GMT

Kevin M. Hibshman has had his poetry, prose, reviews and collages published around the world, most recently in Punk Noir Magazine, Rye Whiskey Review, Piker Press, The Crossroads, Drinkers Only, 1870, Synchronized Chaos, Yellow Mama, Unlikely Stories Mark V, Literary Yard, Lothlorien Poetry Journal and Medusa's Kitchen. He has edited his own poetry journal, FEARLESS for the past thirty years. He has authored sixteen chapbooks, including Incessant Shining (2011, Alternating Current Press).He received a BA in Liberal Arts from Union University/Vermont College in 2016. A new book, Just Another Small Town Story will be available from Whiskey City Press in 2021.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents John Patrick Robbins

Thu, 11 Nov 2021 01:00:00 GMT

John Patrick Robbins, is the editor in chief of the Rye Whiskey Review his work has been published in Fearless Poetry Zine, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Fixator Press, The Dope Fiend Daily, Spill The Words Press, Red Fez, Punk Noir Magazine and The Dope Fiend Daily. He also runs Whiskey City Press his work is always unfiltered. He is also kinda crazy and likes to party if you hadn't heard.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Sandra Yannone

Wed, 03 Nov 2021 00:00:00 GMT

Sandra Yannone’s poems and book reviews have appeared in numerous print and online journals including Ploughshares, Poetry Ireland Review, Prairie Schooner, Sweet, SWWIM Every Day, Naugatuck River Review, Impossible Archetype, and Lambda Literary Review. Her poem “Requiem for Orlando” appeared in Pulsamos: LGBTQ Poets Respond to the Pulse Nightclub Shooting, a special online edition of Glass: A Journal of Poetry in August, 2016. Salmon Poetry published her debut collection Boats for Women in 2019; her second collection The Glass Studio is forthcoming. She currently hosts Cultivating Voices LIVE Poetry on Facebook via Zoom on Sundays. Visit her at www.sandrayannone.com.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Don Krieger

Fri, 05 Nov 2021 00:00:00 GMT

Don Krieger is a biomedical researcher whose focus is the electric activity within the brain. He is author of the 2020 hybrid collection, "Discovery" (Cyberwit), the 2022 hybrid chapbook, "When Danger Is Past, Who Remembers?" (Milk and Cake Press), a 2020 Pushcart nominee, and a 2020 Creative Nonfiction Foundation Science-as-Story Fellow. His work has appeared in American Journal of Nursing, Neurology, Seneca Review, The Asahi Shimbun, The Blue Nib, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and others, and has been translated into Farsi, Greek, Italian, German, and Turkish.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Kim Ports Parsons

Thu, 04 Nov 2021 00:00:00 GMT

After working in education for thirty years as a professor, mentor, public-school teacher, and librarian, Kim now spends as much time as possible on the reading, writing, and sharing of poetry. Kim volunteers weekly for the international, intergenerational, intersectional poetry organization, Cultivating Voices LIVE Poetry, because she believes in poetic community. She creates the graphic designs for the group's events, and is privileged to collaborate with founder Sandra Yannone and fellow poet Don Krieger on program ideas and management. She earned her BA in English from Goucher College, her MA with Creative Writing Emphasis from the University of Maryland-College Park, and her PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her gratitude overflows for her teachers and mentors -- Elizabeth Spires, Stanley Plumly, Michael Collier, Marcia Southwick, Greg Kuzma, and Hilda Raz. Her work appears in many journals, recently in Cider Press Review, The Blue Nib, and Banyan Review. She is currently seeking a publisher for her full-length manuscript, "The Mayapple Forest." Her website can be found here: https://www.kimportsparsons.com/

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Ahmad Al-Khatat

Thu, 21 Oct 2021 00:00:00 GMT

Ahmad Al-Khatat was born in Baghdad, Iraq. His work has appeared in print and online journals globally and has poems translated into several languages. He has been nominated for Best of the Net 2019 and was also nominated for the Pushcart Price 2020. He is the author of some poetry chapbooks and a collection of short stories . He lives in Montreal, Canada.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Deelynn Leigh

Thu, 28 Oct 2021 00:00:00 GMT

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Zach Beach

Tue, 19 Oct 2021 00:00:00 GMT

Zach Beach, MA is an international yoga teacher, best-selling author, poet, love coach, founder of The Heart Center love school, and host of The Learn to Love Podcast. He is the author of the Amazon best-seller The Seven Lessons of Love and two poetry collections, his first entitled Drinking Roses on Sunday and his latest collection is 108 Savasana Poems: Blissful Words From the Heart of Yoga. Zach's writings have appeared on such websites as The Huffington Post, Elephant Journal, and MindBodyGreen, while his poems have been seen in such publications as October Hill Magazine, The Oddville Press, and The CHILLFILTR Review. Learn more at www.zachbeach.com

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Susan Abbott

Thu, 14 Oct 2021 00:00:00 GMT

Susan Abbott paints, draws, writes, does wild and crazy things often with color, sometimes with words. Since March 2021 she has been on a tear of writing villanelles. Prevalent themes in her work are about women (family, friends, historical, mythical, magical, imaginary),love, death, nature, spirituality, social injustices. She is not shy about using humor to bring a sense of poignancy along with a lighter to touch to some difficult topics. Her work has appeared in old feminist rags like “So’s Your Old Lady,” “Sojourner,” and “Perspective.” The coming out correspondence with her mother was included in “Between Ourselves: Letters Between Mothers and Daughters” (Houghton Mifflin, 1984). Her newer work appears in Cholla Needles, When Women Awake: Grief Issue, “Feckless Cunt: A Feminist Anthology (World Split Open Press, 2018); and “Touching Creatures Touching Spirit: Living in a Sentient World” by Judy Grahn, (Red Hen Press, 2021). Her chapbook “Nasty Woman Rise: The Dream and the Curse” (2017) was published by Cholla Needles. She is the illustrator along with poet Cynthia Anderson of the collaborative chapbook “Now Voyager” (Cholla Needles, 2019). A chapbook of her newer poems and art, “The Every Day Holy of We” is due out from Cholla Needles in 2022.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Nikki Grimes

Thu, 07 Oct 2021 00:00:00 GMT

New York Times bestselling poet Nikki Grimes received the 2020 ALAN Award for outstanding contributions to young adult literature. Her distinguished works include the much-honored books Garvey’s Choice, ALA Notable book Southwest Sunrise, Coretta Scott King Award winner Bronx Masquerade, five Coretta Scott King Author Honor books, Print and Siebert Honor winner Ordinary Hazards, Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor winner One Last Word, its companion Legacy: Women Poets of the Harlem Renaissance, and the New York Times bestseller Kamala Harris: Rooted in Justice. She is the creator of the ALA Notable Poetry Book Come Sunday, At Jerusalem’s Gate, and Voices of Christmas, and has been featured in the pages of Image: Journal of Arts and Religion, Today’s Christian Woman, Poetry Magazine, and on the Academy of American Poets series Poem-a-Day, among others. Ms. Grimes lives in Corona, California.

Poetically Correct Poetry Contest 2021: Summer Edition

Fri, 01 Oct 2021 00:00:00 GMT

Aaron R The Poet sponsors multiple poetry contests throughout the year. Chev won the the 2021 Summer Edition of the contest. Key Wills won 2nd place and Miss Kiane won 3rd place. Other participants in the contest were Jae/Intangible Motivation, Yvette G. Santana and She So Cold. Listen to all tonight at 8:00 PM (EST).

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Don Kingfisher Campbell

Thu, 30 Sep 2021 00:00:00 GMT

Don Kingfisher Campbell, MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University Los Angeles, taught Writers Seminar at Occidental College Upward Bound for 36 years, been a coach and judge for Poetry Out Loud, a performing poet/teacher for Red Hen Press Youth Writing Workshops, L.A. Coordinator and Board Member of California Poets In The Schools, poetry editor of the Angel City Review, publisher of Spectrum magazine, and host of the Saturday Afternoon Poetry reading series in Pasadena, California. For awards, features, and publication credits, please go to: http://dkc1031.blogspot.com

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Kawsar Khalil

Sat, 09 Oct 2021 14:30:00 GMT

I am 38 years old and writing since fifteen in Urdu. Lately joined English literary universe as a poet. Before that I was already wotking on a novel. The work goes on. Professionally I works as an Incharge Advances in a bank. Done Masters in Political Science. And perhaps that is enough that is worth of mention. Rest it is a life of an ordinary person.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Tanya Ko Hong

Tue, 28 Sep 2021 00:00:00 GMT

Tanya (Hyonhye) Ko Hong is a bilingual Korean American poet and translator. She has an MFA in poetry from Antioch University. Tanya is the author of four poetry collections, most recently The War Still Within: Poems of the Korean Diaspora(KYSO Flash Press, 2019), written primarily in English. Before that, she published Mother to Myself (Prunsasang Press, 2015) in Korean, Yellow Flowers on a Rainy Day (Oma Books of the Pacific, 2003) in English, and Generation One Point Five (Esprit Books, 1993) in Korean with English translations. Her poetry appears in Rattle, Beloit Poetry Journal, Entropy, Cultural Weekly, WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly (published by The Feminist Press), the Choson Ilbo, The Korea Times, and the Aeolian Harp Series Anthology, among others. Tanya was the first Korean-American recipient of the Yun Doon-ju Korean-American Literature Award. Her segmented poem, “Comfort Woman,” won the 11th Moon Prize from Writing in a Woman’s Voice and received an honorable mention from the Women’s National Book Association. She was a finalist for Frontier’s Chapbook Contest and the Ko Won Literature Award, and a semi-finalist in the Jack Grapes Poetry Contest. She has received grants from the Korean Cultural Center, the Daesan Foundation, and Poets & Writers. Weaving together two cultures, Tanya’s poetry gives voice to multiple generations of Korean and Korean-American women. Her most recent collection, The War Still Within includes a well-researched and vividly imagined sequence of poems based on the experiences of the Korean “comfort women” who were forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Jonathan Hopkins

Thu, 16 Sep 2021 00:00:00 GMT

Jonathan Hopkins is no stranger to the exquisite art of writing (sic). He began writing poetry at the age of 14 and continues to write over 35 years later. He has penned several short stories and over 200 pieces that range in style from sonnet to modern spoken word. His book, “Golden Dreams on Copper Wings: Life’s Flight Through Poetry” is a retrospective, often humorous, look at his life through the eyes of his pen. Jonathan was a fixture in the Washington DC area poetry scene under the Pseudonym “The Wryte One.” His peers have described him/his work as “genius,” “... one of the most prolific and fanatically-flowing writers I’ve met,” “neurotic word-play,” ”the definition of poetry,” as well as countless other superlatives. Jonathan is also a gifted guitarist who has been playing since the age of 16. He has played with a plethora of local artists, performed in numerous venues, worked on several recorded projects and has even shared the stage with Eric Benet. Jonathan hopes to express his life, his love and his Lord Jesus Christ through his gifts of writing and music.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Ana Castillo

Tue, 07 Sep 2021 00:00:00 GMT

Ana Castillo is a celebrated author of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and drama. Among her award-winning books are So Far from God, The Mixquiahuala Letters, Black Dove: Mamá, Mi'jo, and Me, The Guardians, Peel My Love Like an Onion, Sapogonia, Massacre of the Dreamers: Essays on Xicanisma. Her new collection of poetry is My Book of the Dead. Born and raised in Chicago, Castillo resides in southern New Mexico.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Ross Lane

Wed, 01 Sep 2021 18:00:00 GMT

Ross Lane is the author of 10 modern poetry publications all of which deal with a search for meaning, identity and the course of life. Ross is published by Wordcatcher Publishing. His publications can be broken down into two trilogies with "The Gathering Trilogy" being formed from his first three collections "Anthology, Collection & Ensemble," and "The Thought Trilogy" being formed of "Fly-Tipping, Driftwood and Beacons." Ideologue, his ninth collection, is a stand-alone publication. He is also the author of "Highlands: A Poet's Journey in Scotland" which deals with 25 years of travel through the magnificent Highlands of Scotland along with "Gathering," an omnibus of the first three releases with a selection of brand-new writings. Ross will release two new collections over the coming year, “Journeyman” and a travel poetry collection written during his time visiting the Greek Island of Cephalonia. Born in Wales, in the Cynon Valley in 1975 and educated at Aberdare Boy’s Comprehensive School. He later studied at the University of Glamorgan where he obtained a BA (Hons) in English Literature, History, Philosophy & Psychology, during which time he learned from some of the United Kingdom's leading poetry authors. As a writer he is heavily influenced by the works of David Lynch, Seamus Heaney, Robert Smith, Sting and Mike Peters MBE. On a more personal level, Ross attributes much of his inspiration to his family, his parents Wendy & John, sister Cathryn, niece Georgia and fiancée Natalie. As an avid creative he has been involved in many performance types from orchestras, swing bands, rock ensembles, short film and movie production both from a writing and performance perspective. He currently lives in Cwmbach, South Wales. His work is available on Facebook (@RossLanePoetry) and his YouTube channel.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Ryan Quinn Flanagan

Fri, 27 Aug 2021 00:00:00 GMT

Ryan Quinn Flanagan is a Canadian-born author who lives in Elliot Lake, Ontario, Canada with his wife and many bears that rifle through his garbage. His work has appeared both in print and online in such places as: The New York Quarterly, Evergreen Review, Cultural Weekly, Setu, GloMag and The Oklahoma Review. He enjoys listening to the blues and cruising down the Trans Canada in his big blacked out truck.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Kate Clare Wegrzyn

Tue, 31 Aug 2021 00:00:00 GMT

As a lifelong Storyteller, I’ve enjoyed creating stories from nature’s imagery, the imaginative adventures of childhood, and a life well-lived. Impromptu spoken word has remained my JOY, combined with song and compassion. These elements have sparked my writings, inherited from my grandmother and mother, both early childhood teachers and Civil Rights activists. They introduced me to poetry, creative writing, Haiku, and art appreciation with continual museum visits. At age twelve, my family moved into a new home with an extensive collection of National Geographics in the attic, which introduced me to the world. This inspired more diverse writing throughout my high school years. Writing continued at college in Washington D.C. I studied political science, history, and sociology. Next, I followed my family to Colorado which enhanced my creative writing in prose and memoir. In 1978, I founded a retail gallery and boutique, where I wrote continuously about the global handicrafts, textiles, the customs of the country of origin, and of the stones set in jewelry. I created a wholesale business as a sales representative to bring innovative products to retail store owners. I traveled the prairies, foothills, and the Rocky Mountains, from the borders of Canada to Mexico. I wrote constantly about the diverse terrain, the cultural history of the people, and the difficulties that Manifest Destiny’s land /gold rush inflicted. At the end of the 2009 recession, I went from a 3,000 sq ft store & moved SOLO into a tiny space. My lease was not renewed for the second time and I was unable to ride out the economic fall. After 35 years, I was cut loose, penniless by 2012. By 2015, the world of writing was calling me! I attended free annual writing workshops at the Public Library and local Art Galleries. With the guidance of a poetry mentor, my writing inspiration was heightened beyond my wildest dreams. POETRY now rules my quest!

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Benito Pastoriza Iyodo

Thu, 26 Aug 2021 00:00:00 GMT

Benito Pastoriza Iyodo is an author of poetry, poetics, fiction and literary articles. The themes of his literary works include: man's evolution from childhood to adulthood, examination of self, the precipices of culture and its rituals, violence in the cities, examination of stereotypes, the constructs of communication, gender roles and sexuality, education systems and racism, exploitation and the manifestation of exclusion through political and economic powers. His literary career is manifested in eight books: five collections of poetry, a novel and two books of short stories. Three books of poetry and one volume of short stories have been published in bilingual editions (the original Spanish and English). The author's poems and short stories have been included in anthologies and journals published in the United States, Latin America and Spain. His published works are: The color of the colorless (Lo coloro de lo incoloro), A matter of men (Cuestión de hombres), September Elegies (Elegías de septiembre), Letters to the shadow of your love (Cartas a la sombra de tu piel), The waters of Paradise (El agua del paraíso) Beloved, beloved of my heart (Nena, nena de mi corazón), Brothel of the word (Prostíbulo de la palabra) and Hominis Aurora. Benito Pastoriza Iyodo was born in Puerto Rico. He received his bachelor's degree in English and Hispanic Studies at the University of Puerto Rico. Later, he obtained his master's degree in Spanish Language and Literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He completed his doctoral coursework in Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago. He has been recognized through various literary prizes, including the Ateneo Puertorriqueño Prize, the Chicano/Latino Literary Prize, the Julio Cortázar Prize (Uruguay) and the Hispanic Culture Review Poetry Award.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Kiana Balacich

Thu, 19 Aug 2021 00:00:00 GMT

Kiana Balacich is a writer, musician, and educator from New York City. Kiana hosts the Instagram Live poetry show "Words and Music" on @Poetconnection, and the poetry fundraiser "Heal and Help" with Kelly Myerson and Vania Verses. Kiana's published features include the Eve Poetry Magazine and the forthcoming "Poets Against Poverty Volume 2."

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents James Nguyen

Wed, 18 Aug 2021 00:00:00 GMT

James Nguyen is a serial entrepreneur who has previously been featured across CNBC, Sky, ABC and been a contributing writer on Forbes. In jqn, James is able to distill his experience and lessons about life and business through the beauty of spoken word poetry. His topics range from truths about life, love, and spirituality; while he also expounds on first principles from business and entrepreneurship in a collection of poems as well.

QL: POR Proudly Presents Religious, Spiritual and Inspirational Poetry

Tue, 14 Sep 2021 00:00:00 GMT

Happy or joyful poems that make you rejoice in life and the essence of being. Reflective poems about dealing with love and relationships. Inspiring poems that encourage you to take a chance, experiment, and follow your dreams to wherever the journey leads. Motivational poems that tip your life inspiration into action and foster growth and development. Confronting poems that may shake you up a little, and hopefully stir you on to greater self-empowerment. Co-hosted by Aaron R. The Poet, DeeLynn, Dr. Michael Anthony Ingram, Brian Donnell James and Jackie Oldham

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Maureen Mays

Thu, 05 Aug 2021 00:00:00 GMT

Maureen Mays is a published author of The Color of Life in the House of Mei, Love Still Smiles on Dark Days, Because She Had Something to Say and Married: It’s Complicated. Writing has been a therapeutic pastime that was discovered in her teenage years. Her love for writing was rekindled after many years of being a closet writer. She now Blogs, speaks, writes, and encourages others to not only embrace their talents, and dreams but more importantly embrace their God given purpose. Maureen served in the United States Army Reserves a military police officer and civil affairs specialist. She is a devoted mother of two children. They both share her love of philanthropy by giving back to their church and community. They also share her love of entrepreneurship as they watch and strategically create, study, and embark on business opportunities. She is a local resident of the DC metro area. She attended Howard University and later graduated from the University of Maryland. She enjoys painting, cooking, live music, gardening, and enjoying life to its fullest. Maureen is available for speaking engagements and public appearances.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Francis DiClemente

Thu, 29 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMT

Francis DiClemente Biography: Francis DiClemente lives in Syracuse, New York, where he works as a video producer. He is the author of six poetry collections, most recently Outward Arrangements: Poems (2021) and Dreaming of Lemon Trees: Selected Poems (Finishing Line Press, 2019). He is the co-director of the documentary short film The Real Bedford Falls: It’s a Wonderful Life, which explores the connections between the town of Seneca Falls, New York, and Bedford Falls, the setting of the classic movie It’s a Wonderful Life. His full-length stage play, Beyond the Glass, inspired by the Edward Hopper painting Nighthawks, was produced by the Las Vegas Little Theatre in Las Vegas, Nevada, in 2017. He received a bachelor’s degree in communications/journalism from St. John Fisher College in Rochester, New York, and earned a master of arts in film and video from American University in Washington, DC. His blog can be found at https://francisdiclemente.com/. Photo by Shane Johnson.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Nicole Verrone

Tue, 03 Aug 2021 00:00:00 GMT

Nicole Verrone wrote Nest of Stars over six months, after a twenty-year hiatus to raise four daughters. Born in North Carolina, she spent summers on her grandparents’ dairy farm where the poetry of an uncle lost in a tragic car accident was on display. This formative event instilled the beauty and brevity of life through verse. A writer since adolescence, her first poem was published in the local newspaper in 1986. She earned a BA in English from UNC-Greensboro, taught high school literature, and currently serves on an educational team as accreditation and continuing education consultant in the healthcare industry. Verrone lives vicariously through the accounts of adult daughters studying to become healthcare professionals and providers. Her youngest, a pre-teen, still hangs out in the nest. Verrone has been married for a long time to a fly fishing guru and her best pal. She attempts to embrace intangible gifts, fill time and space with art and music, reading and philosophy, and has an unquenchable thirst for stories and travel. Nest of Stars is her first published work.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Martin Graff

Thu, 12 Aug 2021 00:00:00 GMT

Martin Graff is an artist, author, musician, and extreme-chin-beard enthusiast living in Arlington, VA. He imagines and illustrates faces―human, animal, alien, abstract―and writes poetic prose to associate with each. His live spoken-word show adds original piano compositions to heighten the experience. “It started in childhood. To amuse the five-year-old me, my father drew a face on the inside bottom of a large water thermos that he used for tennis. When you looked into the empty container, you could see a deep, swollen, horizontal slit at the end where the halves of the plastic mold came together. With a long pencil, Dad drew two black circles above the slit, now a ‘mouth,’ and my imagination was triggered: the resulting expression was weird, cute, and mildly foreboding all at once. That simple, neutral water bottle became a sentient oddity for which to compose a strange and entertaining backstory. I’ve been at it ever since, finding unexpected narratives and messages in the ordinary details around me.”Graff's original humor, affecting commentary, and whimsical artwork offer a uniquely engaging respite that cuts through the noise of our information-age lives with concise, essential truths certain to entertain as they set mind in motion. The Face Zone: Surreal Daydreams to Trip Your Imagination... https://www.thefacezone.com/, https://tripsforpiano.com/.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Scott Simmons

Thu, 22 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMT

Scott Simmons is the editor in chief of The Dope Fiend Daily and his poetry has appeared at the Anti-heroin chic, Medusa's kitchen, Duane's Poetry, Horror Sleaze Trash, Under The Bleachers, The Black Shamrock Magazine, and The Abyss. His first book The Editor's Manifesto (2021) showcases a mixture of his poetry, humor, and artwork and it is available on Amazon.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Indran Amirthanayagam

Tue, 17 Aug 2021 00:00:00 GMT

Indran Amirthanayagam (www.indranmx.com) writes in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese and Haitian Creole. He has published twenty poetry books, including the forthcoming Blue Window (translated by Jennifer Rathbun),The Migrant States (www.hangingloosepress.com), Coconuts on Mars, The Elephants of Reckoning(winner 1994 Paterson Poetry Prize), Uncivil War and.The Splintered Face: Tsunami Poems. In music, he recorded Rankont Dout. He edits the Beltway Poetry Quarterly (www.beltwaypoetry.com); curates www.ablucionistas.com; writes https://indranamirthanayagam.blogspot.com; co-directs Poets & Writers Studio International, writes a weekly poem for Haiti en Marche and El Acento; has received fellowships from the Foundation for the Contemporary Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, The US/Mexico Fund for Culture, the Macdowell Colony. He is a 2021 Emergent Seed grant winner. Hosts the Poetry Channel https://youtube.com/user/indranam.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Prachi Kothari

Sat, 07 Aug 2021 14:30:00 GMT

Prachi Kothari is a 10-yr-old author and has published many books in her series, "The lightning bulbs of my heart". She was born on 10th December 2009 in Mumbai, India. Along with that, she is an excellent blogger at her site: exemplaryprachi.blogspot.com where she wrote 50 blogs in 10 days. She also works as a young writer freelancer at Fiverr. She is one of the youngest podcasters and runs her show, 'Extraordinary World On Earth' where she spreads excellent awareness of the environment. She is a YouTuber at 'Prachi Kothari' where she recites many of her beautiful poems.' She admires writing and aims to create a better world for all.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Jake St. John

Thu, 15 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMT

Jake St. John spends his nights in a cabin on the edge of the woods. He is the author of several collections of poetry including Night Full of Diamonds (Whiskey City Press, 2021), Snow Moon (Holy & Intoxicated Publications, 2019) and Lost City Highway (A Jabber Publication, 2019). He is the former co-editor of Flying Fish and the former editor of Elephant. He is considered an original member of the “New London School” of poetry. His poems have appeared in print and online journals around the world.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Bill Cushing

Tue, 10 Aug 2021 00:00:00 GMT

Born in Virginia, Bill Cushing grew up in New York, attended school in Pennsylvania, began college in Missouri but quickly found himself back in Virginia and New York as well as Florida, Maryland, Texas, the Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico before moving to California in 1996. When he began his studies at the age of 37, he edited GO magazine, an alternative arts publication in Jacksonville, Florida. As an undergraduate at the University of Central Florida, he was often referred to as the "blue collar" poet based on his previous years working at various jobs. He earned an MFA in writing from Goddard College in Vermont. He is currently working on a memoir focused on his time serving as an electrician in the Navy and later working on both Navy ships and oil tankers. His three collections of poetry are A Former Life (honorable mention from the 2020 Kops-Featherling International Book Award), Music Speaks (third place winner in the 2021 New York City Book Awards) and . . . This Just In . . . (2021). Bill has had reviews, articles, and poems published in Another Chicago Magazine, Birders World, Brownstone Review, genius & madness, Glomag, Metaphor, Sabal Palm Review, the San Juan Star, and West Trade Review. He is proud of having been part of both volumes of the award-winning Stories of Music along with the inaugural issue of Borfski Press, Getting Old, and Lullaby of Teeth, an anthology whose title was inspired by one of his poems. In 2017, Bill was named one of the Top Ten Poets of L. A. Recently he was also named as one of "Ten Poets to Watch in 2018." Bill continues to write, read, and facilitate a writing workshop (9 Bridges chapter) after retiring in 2020 from 23 years of teaching English at East Los Angeles and Mt. San Antonio colleges. He resides in Glendale with his wife and their son.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents James Coats

Thu, 01 Jul 2021 03:00:00 GMT

James Coats is a poet, performer, and educator born in Los Angeles and raised in Southern California. With a passion for all things creative, he strives to capture authentic self-expression through his work whether photography, painting or writing. He believes that poetry has the ability to bring diverse groups together, offering a way to connect through shared challenges, achievements and experiences. You can find him attending poetry readings throughout California or follow his poetry via his Instagram @MrLovingWords. Additionally, you can take a poetry workshop with him through his organization Lift Our Voices Education which hosts an award winning workshop monthly called Be The Change: Social Justice Writing Workshop.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Kianga Dauphin

Thu, 01 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMT

I began writing as a way to express intense emotions. I tend to write more when I have negative emotions. At first, the only people I shared my poetry with were my therapist and my mom. I actually did not even know I was writing poetry. I was just putting down on paper how I felt. I took a creative writing poetry class in the fall of 2020 to learn how to improve my abilities. Through that class, I was able to learn about different styles of poetry and practice them. The class helped me to find my voice. My mother use to read poetry to me as a child from great poets such as Langston Hughes, Sterling Brown and Lucile Clifton amongst others. She has supported my writing throughout my life.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Celia Drill

Thu, 24 Jun 2021 00:00:00 GMT

Celia Drill is a native Californian currently living in Wisconsin. She has published two volumes of poetry, Body of Crimson Leaves, with Backwater’s Press, and Awake Through Dreams with Little Red Tree Press. She has just completed her third manuscript entitled Mystic Traveler. Celia has her MFA from San Francisco State University, has taught creative writing at several universities, and currently runs her own business.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Serena Agusto-Cox

Thu, 08 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMT

Serena Agusto-Cox, a Suffolk University alum and volunteer with the Gaithersburg Book Festival, was one of the first featured readers of the DiVerse Gaithersburg reading series. Poems can be read in The Magnolia Review, MacQueen's Quinterly, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Dime Show Review, Dissonance Magazine, Mothers Always Write, Bourgeon, and elsewhere. Work appears in the This Is What America Looks Like anthology, Mom Egg Review’s Pandemic Parenting issue, The Plague Papers digital anthology, H.L. Hix’s Made Priceless, Love_Is_Love: An Anthology for LGBTQIA+ Teens, and Midge Raymond’s Everyday Book Marketing. She operates the book review blog, Savvy Verse & Wit, and Poetic Book Tours. She is currently working on her first chapbook.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Bypo Phoenix

Fri, 18 Jun 2021 00:00:00 GMT

BYPO PHOENIX is a DC native dedicated to destigmatizing the manic depressive spectrum. He advances politics of collective liberation through his poetry and street art. He is the creator of two zines of poetry and has an online presence at byporevolution.com.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Chuka Susan Chesney

Thu, 10 Jun 2021 00:00:00 GMT

Chuka Susan Chesney is an artist and a poet. Her poems, art, and/or flash fiction have been published in Peacock Journal, Inklette, New England Review, Compose, Picaroon, and Lummox. Chesney’s paintings and collages have been in exhibitions and galleries across the United States. The mission of Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio is to provide a live format for emerging, mid-career, and established poets to showcase their work. Whether traditional poetry or spoken word, the show offers an online vehicle for artists to engage in critical dialogue and discussion about poetry. If you would like to be a guest on QL: POR, please contact the host Dr. Michael Anthony Ingram at maingram@gmx.com.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Matthew Descovia

Wed, 23 Jun 2021 22:30:00 GMT

Bio: A native of Los Angeles, California and Warren, Arkansas Proudly representing Laredo, Texas. PROUD DAD (DEFENDER (OF) ALL DISCIPLES), Certified Anti Human Trafficking Ambassador, Traveler, Spell-Casting Poet, Holistic Healer. Your light, have as much reason to shine as the next soul. Why should I condemn you to eternal darkness? In a world where we resonate light? Primary Motive: To utilze full advantage of our physical abilities, communication and empathy to bring a successful end to Rape Culture and Child Slavery.

QL: POR Proudly Presents A JUNETEENTH Open Mic Poetry Reading

Sun, 20 Jun 2021 00:00:00 GMT

Juneteenth or Emancipation Day is a holiday commemorating the release of those held in bondage during slavery. It started in Galveston, Texas, and is now celebrated every year on June 19 across the United States. Noted poets Brian Donnell James and Jackie Oldham will co-host the event. A found poem by Dr. Michael Anthony Ingram, (2021) In 1941, Laura Smalley, a former slave in Texas, told a WPA worker about the day she heard of her freedom. “I remember. We all got up that morning and went to the big house to see ole’ master. I thought ole’ master was dead, I didn’t know he had gone to war, He was back. All the slaves gathered around to see ole’ master. He didn’t tell us we were free. He worked us for six more months and turned us loose on the 19th of June. That is why we colored folks celebrate that day, celebrate that day, celebrate that day, celebrate that day.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/06/11/juneteenth-trump-rally-tulsa-race-massacre/

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Robert Garnham

Wed, 02 Jun 2021 18:00:00 GMT

Robert Garnham has been performing comedy poetry around the UK for ten years at various fringes and festivals, and has had two collections published by Burning Eye. He has made a few short TV adverts for a certain bank, and a joke from one of his shows was listed as one of the funniest of the Edinburgh Fringe. He was recently an answer on the TV quiz show Pointless. Lately he has been writing short stories for magazines and a humorous column in the Herald Express newspaper. In 2020 he was nominated for the Pushcart Prize.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Lynne Viti

Thu, 20 May 2021 00:00:00 GMT

Lynne Viti, a lecturer emerita in the Writing Program at Wellesley College, was born and raised in Baltimore and now lives in Massachusetts. She is the author of Dancing at Lake Montebello: Poems (Apprentice House Press), and two chapbooks from Finishing Line: Baltimore Girls and The Glamorganshire Bible, as well as a short story collection, Going Too Fast (Finishing Line 2020) Her work has appeared in over 100 journals and anthologies, including The Wire: Urban Decay and American Television, The Baltimore Sun, Welcome to the Neighborhood, Bad Hombres & Nasty Women, and Incandescent Minds. She blogs at lynneviti.wordpress.com. Dancing at Lake Montebello is available from Apprentice House Press, Bookshop.org, and many other online booksellers.

A National Mental Health Awareness Month Poetry Program

Fri, 28 May 2021 00:00:00 GMT

The program is sponsored by Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio and the National Alliance on Mental Illness, Washington, DC Chapter. Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio is a popular BlogtalkRadio podcast. It is also available on ITunes and Sound Cloud. Please visit www.blogtalkradio.com/ql_p for more details. NAMI DC is the local chapter for the National Alliance on Mental Illness in the District of Columbia, providing education, support, and advocacy for individuals and their families with mental illness. Donate The organization strives to fight stigma, provide support, and advocate for individuals with mental illness and their families. Your contribution will help strengthen the movement. Please click the link below to make your donation today. If you would like to donate in honor or memory of someone(s), please give us the name(s) the way you want it listed in the comment box provided at checkout. http://www.namidc.org/donate Membership Join thousands of Americans dedicated to improving the lives of people with mental illness.http://www.namidc.org/join-us Guest Poets Biographical Sketches: National Mental Health Awareness Month Poetry Reading.docx

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Arthur Cole

Wed, 12 May 2021 18:00:00 GMT

Arthur Cole joined the South Wales Police at the age of nineteen.As a career detective he has dealt with all manner of major crime, including murder, robbery, and serious sexual offences. Arthur retired from the service in 1997Arthur is married to Caroline, and they have two grown up children. Christopherr, and Karen.Arthur was born in a small mining village situated at the top of the Llynfi Valley Maesteg. The majority of Arthur’s relatives were themselves miners. In February 2016, he started on his literary journey, when he collaborated with his now co-author Nigel Williams, writing their first Terry McGuire crime thriller ‘UNETHICAL CONDUCT’They have since written a further eight books in the series, Arthur has also written three books of poetry, POEMS FOR A LOST GENERATION-First World War. AN INDUSTRY NOW LOST-Coalmining, and 50 FAMOUS PEOPLE The very first poem that Arthur wrote was titled ‘ABERFAN’ in January 2016. This poem describes a soil tip disaster in South Wales that claimed many lives, the majority being young children who were attending the Pant Glas Primary school in Aberfan.The disaster resounded all over the world.Although Arthur loved English literature whilst in school, he never wrote poetry, so you could say it has taken him over 50 years for him to discover this particular talent.Arthur writes every day, when not writing poetry, he is fathoming, and writing plots for the next crime thriller..

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Erin Carlyle

Thu, 06 May 2021 00:00:00 GMT

Erin Carlyle is a poet whose roots are in the American South. Her poetry often explores the connections between poverty, place, and girlhood, and can be found in journals such as New South, Tupelo Quarterly, Bateau Press, and Prairie Schooner. Her Chapbook You Spit Hills and My Body was published on Dancing Girl Press in 2015, and Her debut full-length collection, Magnolia Canopy Otherworld, won the annual Driftwood Press Poetry Manuscript Contest and was published in December of 2020.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents The Write Blend

Thu, 29 Apr 2021 00:00:00 GMT

Bio: The Write Blend is a unique, culturally diverse poetry ensemble of six poets whose poetry is published in a new collection of poems, entitled “The Write Blend.” The poetry ensemble has most recently been featured on Poets vs Pandemic sponsored by Café Muse and Word Works Organizations. The Write Blend has read at the Library of Congress for the Maryland State Poet Laureate, Grace Cavalieri’s, “The Poet and The Poem.” The Write Blend has also performed for a Black History Poetry Festival, sponsored by the William Joseph Seymour Foundation in Oxon Hill United Methodist Church. Hist: Founded July 2018. Diane Wilbon Parks is the Founder of The Write Blend and invited each poet in The Write Blend to become a part of the circle of six. Because many poetry events/readings did not have a culturally diverse representation in the audiences and or featured poets, Diane believe it was critical to recruit well established, culturally diverse poets who could offer a broader landscape of poetry to all audiences. As a result, the six poets have become the right blend of voices that deliver a unique signature in their body of work and writing style, their individual contributions as leaders in the poetry community, as well as their matchless voices.

QL:POR Presents Ken Allan Dronsfield and Michael Lee Johnson

Fri, 30 Apr 2021 00:00:00 GMT

To read the bios of Ken Allan Dronsfield and Michael Lee Johnson, please visit QLPOR - Dronsfield and Johnson.docx The mission of Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio is to provide a live format for emerging, mid-career, and established poets to showcase their work. Whether traditional poetry or spoken word, the show offers an online vehicle for artists to engage in critical dialogue and discussion about poetry. If you would like to be a guest on QL: POR, please contact the host Dr. Michael Anthony Ingram at maingram@gmx.com.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Thandiwe McMillan

Thu, 08 Apr 2021 00:00:00 GMT

Thandiwe McMillan is a young poet, author, artist and actress from New York City. She’s been writing poetry and short stories since her childhood and her poems were #1 on Teen Ink, during adolescence. She attended Swarthmore College and spent her last semester developing her poetry and writing with Philadelphia Poetry Laureate Trapeta Mayson. After graduating in May 2020 with a B.A in Theater, she joined a fellowship that assisted writers with publishing their first book. Her first poetry and illustration book Flowers In Winter was released in March 2021. This raw and vulnerable compilation explores the self-discovery of a young woman from childhood to present and her experiences with love, loss, and community. Thandiwe’s essays and poetry have been published in Voices, Philadelphia Poets 25 and Under as well as The Phoenix. To connect with Thandiwe, you can follow her on instagram https://www.instagram.com/thandiwe_artist/ or Facebook https://www.facebook.com/thandiweartist

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Jacinta V. White

Thu, 01 Apr 2021 00:00:00 GMT

Jacinta V. White is a teaching artist, coach, facilitator, and entrepreneur. She's the founder of The Word Project and the Publishing Editor-in Chief, for the international quarterly, Snapdragon: A Journal of Art & Healing. Her most recent collection, Resurrecting the Bones: Born from a Journey through African American Churches & Cemeteries in the Rural South, published in 2019 (Press 53) has received national attention. To find out more about Jacinta and her work, visit JacintaWhite.com.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Gerry LaGuardia Leonard

Thu, 25 Mar 2021 00:00:00 GMT

Gerry LaGuardia Leonard writes in poetic prose, storytelling about the state of today’s world. She claims to have always walked the paths of altruism and artistic pursuits. Today, she defines herself as an emerging poet, adding it to her accomplishments as wife, mother, drama student, pottery artist and a fifteen-year career as a Certified Chemical Dependency/Relapse Specialist, instructing in Northern California jails. Gerry began writing poetry as a family legacy, then joined Facebook poetry groups. She is a member of the Denver Poetry Society and attends poetry readings around Denver. Her poems have been published in various anthologies, including a peace poem scripted on cloth, for a unique flag exhibition in India. Gerry claims that poetry is perfectly suited for unique artistic presentation, self-publishing an accordion book of poems. After living 35 years in No. California, she now resides in Denver, Colorado, where she was born and raised. https://www.facebook.com/1261121695/videos/10218725322105113

World Poetry Day 2021

Sun, 21 Mar 2021 17:00:00 GMT

World Poetry Day was adopted as 21 March by UNESCO in 1999. It is an invitation to reflect on the power of language and the full development of each person’s creative abilities. It also supports linguistic diversity through poetic expression and offers endangered languages the opportunity to be heard within their communities (https://globaldimension.org.uk/). Over the years, it has become the largest literary celebration in the world with schools, publishers, libraries, booksellers, and poets celebrating poetry’s vital place in our culture. This year's observance will feature the following celebrated and award winning poets: Don Beukes (Pontivy, France), Heath Brougher York, Pennsylvania), Scott Thomas Outlar (Atlanta, Georgia), Archna Sahni (Toronto, Canada), and Sandra Yannone (Olympia, Washington). To read each poet's biography, please visit World Poetry Day 2021.docx.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Sarah Lipton-Sidibeh

Wed, 21 Apr 2021 18:00:00 GMT

Sarah Lipton-Sidibeh, BA Honours, LLCM, FRSA, was born in London, England. She has written three volumes of short stories, three volumes of poetry, a play, a children's book, film scripts, song lyrics and two educational textbooks. Three of her short stories were broadcast on the radio. Her poetry has been published in numerous anthologies. She received an award from The Poetry Society, England, for some of her poetry. She received commended and honours certificates for some of her poems at The Richmond Music Festival, England. Her poem, 'Stagnation,' was shortlisted in The National Anthology Poetry Competition' in 2005. Her poem, 'Wishful Thinking,' was printed in 'The Poems In The Waiting Room' pamphlet in 2010. These pamphlets are distributed to hundreds of doctors' surgeries in Britain. Sarah was The Featured Poet in 'Bareback Lit Magazine' in October 2012. She was awarded a commended certificate for her song, 'I Wish,' from The United Kingdom Songwriting Competition in 2016. She is completing her first novel.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Kelly C. Bradley

Thu, 18 Mar 2021 00:00:00 GMT

Kelly Bradley is a tech writer and Sr. Product Manager in the Washington DC area where she writes stories and creates apps based on data. She wrote her first poem in Second grade, a requiem to her cat, Petey. Her first collection, published by FootHills Publishing, “love, loss and the enormity of it all” addresses themes of grief, joy, love, heartbreak and perseverance. When not working or writing poetry, Kelly writes songs and rap lyrics, dances to electronic dance music and hikes year-round with her dog, winter. She has co-written two songs are out on all the music platforms. Website: https://www.kellycbradley.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kellycbradley/ (@kellycbradley) Purchase book from publisher: http://www.foothillspublishing.com/2021/bradley.html

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Mysti S. Milwee

Thu, 11 Mar 2021 01:00:00 GMT

Mysti S. Milwee is an International award-winning and published synesthesia artist (paints to music), poetess, writer, screenwriter, book cover art designer, and illustrator from Southside, Alabama. She is the editor and publisher of Sequoyah Cherokee River Journal. She has Native American background and is a Sequoyah-Cherokee translator. Her poetry, writings, and visual art has been published in over 3,000 + publications worldwide and in over 12 countries. She is the “Poet Laureate” of Fire Eagle Ministries, and over 1,000 poems has been written for over 50 ministries and outreach in over 12 countries. Her poetry, writings, and art has been used for academic and ministry studies across the US and abroad. She is the recipient of the 2021 International Cultural Arts & Literature Communications Collaborator Award, 2021 Global Translation Award in Native American Literature, 2020 International Native American Literary Translation Award, 2020 International Key to Success Award, 2020 International Golden Feather Leadership Scholar, 2020 Best Short Story for Documentary, 2020 Best Lyrics for Christian Music (for song “Unsung Hero”), 2020 Best Lyrics for Music Video (for song lyrics “Through the Fire”, 2020 Global Arts & Humanities Award, 2020 Global Arts & Literary CultureAward and was awarded the 2020 Best Screenplay for “The Loner”. She is a “literary and arts mentor” with the International Team with One Million Talent Academy Plus, Assessment for Development.She is the Author of her poetry book “Human Reaction” Inspirational Life Lessons Expressed in the Poetry of a Native American Woman’s Soul, and is available for purchase on Amazon.To view more about the author visit: http://www.mystismilwee.wordpress.com/Visit her online poetry and visual arts journal at: http://www.sequoyahcherokeeriverjournal.wordpress.com/

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Kim B Miller

Thu, 04 Mar 2021 01:00:00 GMT

Kim B Miller’s poetry is inspirational, her words are bold and she is unapologetically blunt. Kim is the Poet Laureate for Prince William County. She is the First African American Poet Laureate for PWC, VA. Her poems have been published in African Voices magazine, a Portuguese book, a DC newspaper, an interfaith anthology and several magazines and books. Kim performed at The National Black Theater, The Atlas Performing Arts Center, Northern Virginia Community College and many other venues. Kim has an online store and her website is www.kimbmiller.com. Her latest book is: My Poetry is The Beauty You Overlook.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Jerry T. Johnson

Thu, 25 Feb 2021 01:00:00 GMT

BIO Jerry T. Johnson is a Poet and Spoken Word Artist whose poetry has appeared in a variety of literary publications worldwide including: Burning Word Literary Journal, great weather for MEDIA 2017 & 2020 Anthologies, The Long Islander, Straylight Literary Journal, Here Comes Everyone, Drunk Monkeys, Blue Lake Review and many more. In addition to his published work, Jerry also features at many Spoken Word and Poetry venues inthe New York City and Southern Connecticut areas. Jerry lives with his wife Raye in Danbury, Connecticut. You may follow Jerry’s work on the following social media networks: jtjohnpoet.comtwitter.com jetjohn3facebook.com jtjpoetry

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Brian Donnell James

Thu, 04 Feb 2021 01:00:00 GMT

Poet, Novelist, Public Speaker Brian Donnell James is the 2020 "United Nations" FAO World Food Day Poetry First Prize Winner, for his poem ”Testimony” which was read before a virtual audience of nearly a thousand attendants and broadcast worldwide. He is also a 2020 National Poetry Writing Month Award Winner and also placed second in the 2020 Write by the Rails Poetry Contest, sponsored by the Virginia Writers Club. He is a poet, writer, and public speaker that has been published in Africa, Europe, and throughout the United States in several poetry anthologies, journals, and magazines. He has spoken at several universities and colleges including George Mason University, Penn State University, Howard University, Montana State University, and Northern Virginia Community College. His video performances and text has been discussed and analyzed as a part of an honors colloquium sponsored by Dr. Hiram Larew at Oregon State University as well as the University of Georgia. Brian also was a guest commentator for 96.1 Jamz in Tallahassee Florida and WCFB Star 94.5 in Orlando Florida and has received numerous certifications and recognitions from organizations including The American Red Cross, Washington DC Family, and Child Service Agency, The Alliance to End Hunger, Capital Area Food Bank, Poetry X Hunger, The City of Alexandria, Virginia and the Elks Club of Alexandria, Virginia.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents John Patrick Robbins

Thu, 28 Jan 2021 01:00:00 GMT

John Patrick Robbins, is the editor in chief of the Rye Whiskey Review, Under The Bleechers, The Black Shamrock Magazine, Crossroads Magazine, The Abyss. He is the Author of The Still Night Sessions Published by Whiskey City Press. His work has been published in Fearless Poetry Zine, Punk Noir Magazine, San Pedro River Review, The Dope Fiend Daily, Heroin Love Songs, 1870 Magazine, San Antonio Review, His work is always unfiltered. https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/john-patrick-robbins/the-still-night-sessions/paperback/product-g96w2m.html?page=1&pageSize=4

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Kay Bell

Thu, 18 Feb 2021 01:00:00 GMT

Bio: Kay Bell is the author of two poetry collections: Cry Sweat Bleed Write published by Lily Poetry Review Books and Diary of an Intercessor published by Finishing Line Press. She earned a BA in English and an MFA in Creative Writing at The City College of New York (CUNY) where she also served as a poetry mentor in the Poetry Outreach program. Kay lives in the Bronx, New York and is passionate about bringing the arts back into public schools and issues that affect marginalized communities.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Jackie Oldham

Thu, 11 Feb 2021 01:00:00 GMT

Jackie Oldham is a writer from Baltimore, Maryland, focused on poetry, essays, and short stories. Her poetry and essays appear mainly on her personal blog, baltimoreblackwoman.com on WordPress. These writings led to invitations to read her work at local venues [Ikaros Restaurant, Baltimore, MD (2018 and 2019); Beth Am Synagogue Poetry Shabbat (2019 and 2020], for the Quintessential Listening: Poetry podcast (2019 and 2020), and the Black Poets Matter series, presented by Mad Mouth Poetry (available on Facebook). In 2020, two of her poems were published: “Golem Emet” [September 24, 2020, https://oddballmagazine.com/poem-by-jackie-oldham/] and “Just Another Covid Saturday” October 9, 2020, https://globalpoemic.wordpress.com/2020/10/10/just-another-covid-19-saturday/]. Her essays have appeared as Editorials and Letters in the Baltimore Sun newspaper. Her first short story, “Age-isms,” was published in midnight & indigo, an online and print literary journal featuring Black Women (2019). She is retired from a career as a production copy editor and trainer for a firm (originally Waverly Press) that specialized in printing and publishing scientific and medical journals and books.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Shakira Croce

Thu, 14 Jan 2021 01:00:00 GMT

Shakira Croce is a writer living in Brooklyn, New York.Leave It Raw (Finishing Line Press, 2020) is her debut poetry collection, featuring poems that explore the nuances of sexuality, marriage, motherhood, the arts, and ambition, speaking to relationships’ potential to hurt and heal. Each story offers bits of experience that provide an intimate glimpse of the intricacies of life. Croce’s poetry translations have appeared inBabelmagazine, and her poetry has been featured in several literary magazines and journals, including the New Ohio Review, Pilgrimage Press, HIV Here & Now,Transactions, Ducts, pioneertown, Permafrost Magazine, and Shark Reef. She was a featured reader in the Boundless Tales Reading Series, and she was a finalist in the Linda Flowers Literary Award competition. Croce holds a Bachelor of Arts from Sarah Lawrence College and a Master’s in Public Administration from Pace University. Born in Geneva, New York in 1987, she grew up in Gainesville, Georgia and later studied in Florence, Italy. She currently works in New York City as Assistant Director of Communications and Public Relations at New York’s largest Medicaid Special Needs Health Plan, Amida Care.She lives with her husband, son, and two cats

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Jude Hunkar Anderson

Tue, 05 Jan 2021 19:00:00 GMT

I’m a girl from a small rural village in Hungary. Growing up in humble but love filled surroundings, I always knew there’s more out there for me. In 2000 when I was 20, I moved to the UK and have created a new life that has been nothing less but incredible. I came a long way in the last 20 years. My family is my life, my husband and our two girls. Love, pure and simple. I’m a woman, a wife and a mummy but now I’m also a poet. This year 2020 broke me in every way but that wasn’t the end. I rebuild me again bit by bit. I have grown, stronger, wiser while finding magic in writing. I’ve only been writing poetry since April. Poetry is my way to share my heart and soul with the world and I have so much more to give. Life is my theme and people. I’m only at the beginning of this exciting adventure and I cannot wait to see where it will take me.

An Open-Mic Poetry Tribute to the Life and Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Tue, 19 Jan 2021 01:00:00 GMT

Join us as we pay special tribute to the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr. King, during his lifetime, confronted many issues that are still with us today. Ever the dreamer, he always taught that hope, courage, truth, service, respect, and dignity have no boundaries despite the obstacles. On Monday, January 18, 2021 at 8:00 PM (EST), please call into the show (646)-787-1631 and share poetry related to peace, justice, and equality for all. Acclaimed poet Joseph Ross will be our special guest. Joseph wrote the seminal new poetry collection, Raising King. Please visit https://willowlit.net/raising-king/ for more information about the book. The mission of Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio is to provide a live format for emerging, mid-career, and established poets to showcase their work. Whether traditional poetry or spoken word, the show offers an online vehicle for artists to engage in critical dialogue and discussion about poetry. If you would like to be a guest on QL: POR, please contact Dr. Michael Anthony Ingram at maingram@gmx.com.

Poetically Correct Poetry Contest #1

Sat, 09 Jan 2021 18:00:00 GMT

AaronRPoems.com sponsors multiple poetry contests throughout the year. Hilton Lewis won the the December 2020 Poetically Correct contest. The other participants in the contest were Joel “King” Atterberry, Allyson Autrey (First Runner-Up), Farida Aziz, Jerome “J writezzz” Bradley, James Dean, Alatashe Kowale, and Deelynn Leigh. The mission of Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio is to provide a live format for emerging, mid-career, and established poets to showcase their work. Whether traditional poetry or spoken word, the show offers an online vehicle for artists to engage in critical dialogue and discussion about poetry. If you would like to be a guest on QL: POR, please contact Dr. Michael Anthony Ingram at maingram@gmx.com.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Presents Marianne Szlyk and Ethan Goffman

Thu, 24 Dec 2020 01:00:00 GMT

Marianne Szlyk’s poems have appeared in of/with, bird’s thumb, Mad Swirl, Solidago, One-Sentence Poems, Bourgeon, Mike Maggio’s COVID-19 series, Sheila-na-gig, Verse Virtual, Cactifur, Music of the Aztecs, and Resurrection of a Sunflower, an anthology of work responding to Vincent Van Gogh’s art. Her new book, Poetry en Plein Air, is available from Pony One Dog Press and Amazon. She has also revived her blog-zine The Song Is… as a summer-only publication for poems and prose inspired by music, especially jazz: http://thesongis.blog. Recently she read her poems at the River Road Reading Series in Eugene, OR...through the magic of Zoom. She and her husband also coordinate It Takes a Community, a poetry group that brings together MC student poets and poets from the community. These days, the community is much larger, even including poets from New York, Wisconsin, Italy, and Nigeria! Ethan Goffman’s first volume of poetry, Words for Things Left Unsaid, was published by Kelsay Books in March of 2020. His poems have appeared in Alien Buddha, Ariel Chart, BlazeVox, Bradlaugh’s Finger, Burgeon, The Loch Raven Review,Mad Swirl, MadnessMuse,Ramingo’s Blog,Setu, and elsewhere. Ethan is co-founder of It Takes a Community, a Montgomery College initiative bringing poetry to students and local residents. He is also founder and producer of the Poetry & Planet podcast on EarthTalk.org. https://earthtalk.org/poetry-and-planet/

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Tali Cohen Shabtai

Sat, 05 Dec 2020 17:00:00 GMT

Tali Cohen Shabtai, is a poet, she was born in Jerusalem, Israel. She began writing poetry at the age of six, she had been an excellent student of literature. She began her writings by publishing her impressions in the school’s newspaper. First of all she published her poetry in a prestigious literary magazine of Israel ‘Moznayim’ when she was fifteen years old.Tali has written three poetry books: "Purple Diluted in a Black’s Thick", (bilingual 2007), "Protest" (bilingual 2012) and "Nine Years From You" (2018).Tali’s poems expresses spiritual and physical exile. She is studying her exile and freedom paradox, her cosmopolitan vision is very obvious in her writings. She lived some years in Oslo Norway and in the U.S.A. She is very prominent as a poet with a special lyric, "she doesn’t give herself easily, but subject to her own rules," Tali studied at the "David Yellin College of Education" for a bachelor's degree. She is a member of the Hebrew Writers Association and the Israeli Writers Association in the state of Israel. In 2014, Cohen Shabtai also participated in a Norwegian documentary about poets' lives called "The Last Bohemian"- "Den Siste Bohemien",and screened in the cinema in Scandinavia. By 2021, her fourth book of poetry will be published which will also be published in Norway. Her literary works have been translated into many languages as well.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Ahmad Al-Khatat

Thu, 03 Dec 2020 01:00:00 GMT

Ahmad Al-Khatat was born in Baghdad, Iraq. His work has appeared in print and online journals globally and has poems translated into several languages. He has been nominated for Best of the Net 2018. He is the author of The Bleeding Heart Poet, Love On The War’s Frontline, Gas Chamber, Wounds from Iraq, Roofs of Dreams, The Grey Revolution, and Noemi & Lips of Sweetness. He lives in Montreal, Canada.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Celaine Charles

Thu, 10 Dec 2020 01:00:00 GMT

Bio:Celaine Charles lives in the Pacific Northwest where she teaches elementary school, writes poetry and fiction, and blogs about her writing journey on Steps In Between. Her poetry book, Colors Collected, debuted in August 2019. Her poetry series, Colors, hosted on Channillo, was awarded Best Continuing Series, Best New Series, and Best Poetry Series for the 2018 Channillo Awards. Previous works include shared poetry with the Tupelo Press 30/30 Challenge Project, and various publications: Dime Show Review, Kingdoms in The Wild, Nine Muses Poetry, Spillwords Press, The Seattle Star, and The Sunlight Press, among others. Celaine was a poetry finalist in the PNWA Literary Contest, July 2017. Her debut YA Fantasy, Seam Keepers, is forthcoming in 2021 (The Wild Rose Press). Contact CC on all social medias, especially Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cc_celainecharles/, Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100020278358757, and Twitter: https://twitter.com/celaine_charles.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Heather Corbally Bryant

Thu, 19 Nov 2020 01:00:00 GMT

Heather Corbally Bryant teaches in the Writing Program at Wellesley College. She went to Harvard College and received her PhD at the University of Michigan. She has taught at Harvard, University of Michigan, and Penn State where she won awards for her teaching. She has written extensively on Elizabeth Bowen, and is the author of ten books of poetry; her poems have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize; one of her chapbooks won honorable mention in the Open Chapbook competition of the Finishing Line Press.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Claudine Nash

Thu, 12 Nov 2020 01:00:00 GMT

Winner of the 2020 Blue Light Book Award for her poetry collectionBeginner's Guide to Loss in the Multiverse(Blue Light Press, 2020),Claudine Nash is a psychologist and award-winning poet who writes extensively about loss, healing and the liberation of releasing the past. Her other collections include the full-length booksThe Wild Essential(Kelsay Books: Aldrich Press, 2017)andParts per Trillion (Kelsay Books: Aldrich Press, 2016) as well as the chapbooksThings for Which You Thirst (Weasel Press, 2020) and TheProblem with Loving Ghosts(Finishing Line Press, 2014).She has also edited three poetry anthologies:Epiphanies and Late Realizations of Love(Transcendent Zero Press, 2019),Destigmatized(Madness Muse Press, 2017) andIn So Many Words(Madness Muse Press, 2016). Widely published, her work has been nominated forthe Pulitzer, Pushcart and Best of the Net Anthology Prizes and has earned numerous literarydistinctions including prizes from such publications and artistic organizations as Artists EmbassyInternational, Thirty West Publishing House, The Song Is..., and Eye on Life Magazine among others.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Don Beukes

Thu, 05 Nov 2020 18:00:00 GMT

Bio Don Beukes is a South African and British writer. He is the author of 'The Salamander Chronicles' (CTU) and 'Icarus Rising-Volume 1’ (ABP), an ekphrastic collection. He taught English and Geography in both South Africa and the UK. His poetry has been anthologized in numerous collections and translated into Persian, French and Albanian. He was nominated by Roxana Nastase, editor of Scarlet Leaf Review for the 'Best of the Net' in 2017 as well as the Pushcart Poetry Prize in 2016. He was published in his first SA Anthology ‘In Pursuit of Poetic Perfection’ in 2018 (Libbo Publishers). Bio Don Beukes es un escritor sudafricano y británico. Es el autor de 'The Salamander Chronicles' (CTU) y 'Icarus Rising-Volume 1' (ABP), una colección de ekphrastic. Él enseñó inglés y geografía en Sudáfrica y el Reino Unido. Su poesía ha sido antologizada en numerosas colecciones y traducida al persa, francés y albanés. Fue nominado por Roxana Nastase, editora de Scarlet Leaf Review por "Best of the Net" en 2017, así como por el Premio Pushcart Poetry en 2016. Fue publicado en su primera Antología de SA "En busca de la perfección poética" en 2018 ( Editores Libbo).

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Frogg Corpse

Thu, 22 Oct 2020 00:00:00 GMT

Frogg Corpse is a poet from Louisville, Kentucky. Frogg has been writing poetry since he was eight years old. At age 12 in 1999 Frogg was one of the youngest poets and members at that time to be a part of a convention and a member of the International Society of Poets now known as the defunct poetry.com. Frogg had the pleasure of writing a poem with Pulitzer prize Poet W.D. Snodgrass in his time at Coronado Springs, Florida. Through the years Frogg improved upon his writing until he felt he was ready to approach it with enthusiastic ambition. Frogg became a vocalist and wrote lyrics for metal bands in his adolescence. As an adult, he published a memoir titled “The Mourning Hour” in 2011. The Mourning Hour was showcased in 2012 at the London Book Fair. He has performed Spoken Word at Gonzofest for three years in Louisville from 2014-2016. Gonzofest is a festival event celebrating the life and legacy of writer and Louisville native Hunter S. Thompson. He was a featured poet Halloween 2019 by Cajun Mutt Press. He also has poetry in the Fall 2019 edition of Artifact Nouveau Magazine. He has written guest blog in 2019 for 48HrBooks. The guest blog discusses the importance of documenting dreams to improve writing. Frogg has poems in the first and third issues of Necro Magazine. Frogg has performed in a 2020 Slam Poetry event hosted by Spoken Word artist Suli Breaks. MTV’s Jackass star Steve-O owns a copy of Frogg Corpses aforementioned memoir. He has also worked in 2011-2014 as a haunt actor at Waverly Hills Sanatorium in Louisville. During 2012 Frogg Auditioned as a vocalist for the American Idol Season 12 series on FOX. He has also worked as a background actor for Magician Criss Angel in 2013 for Angel’s Spike TV show BeLIEve in Las Vegas. And while in Las Vegas, Frogg Corpse also had a minor role in the film The Las Vegas Story which featured established actor Eric Roberts while auditioning twice for NBC’s The VOICE.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Jesse Ellsbury

Thu, 15 Oct 2020 00:00:00 GMT

Jesse Ellsbury is a poet and singer-songwriter from the DC Area. His first poem came to him on the schoolbus when he was fourteen and he's been writing ever since. He is now approaching his 5,000th poem and has surpassed 600 songs, many of which are listenable. He has long described himself as a closet optimist, with a heavy dose of cynicism and despair wrapped around a small core of hope. His latest project is chronicling the demise of America in short little poems that can be found tacked to his Facebook profile every morning. -- Jesse Ellsbury, MAT

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents C.M. Crockford

Thu, 01 Oct 2020 00:00:00 GMT

C.M. Crockford is a writer with credits in Serotonin, Neologism Poetry Journal, No Recess! Magazine, The Spool, and the Daily Drunk Mag among other publications. His poem "Sensory" was recently nominated for Best Of The Net 2020. Mark The Place, his second chapbook, is available from Thirty West Publishing and is in its second print run. Crockford currently lives in Philadelphia with his partner Julia and their cat Shaun.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Linwood Jackson, Jr.

Thu, 24 Sep 2020 00:00:00 GMT

Linwood Jackson Jr. is an author writing on the Bible’s philosophy, and on its life-altering benefit. He is someone who believes in the power of the Bible's words when sincerely exercised and studied. Through his books, speeches, and discourses, he encourages to think and feel for self, that self-love may bloom into self-possession through the knowledge acquired from experience. This, he says, betters the personal and devotional life not only for the person but also for all around them. Linwood Jackson, Jr's Book https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08DRTPHH6/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i1

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Kristin Ferragut

Thu, 17 Sep 2020 00:00:00 GMT

Kristin Kowalski Ferragut writes, teaches, plays guitar, hikes, supports her children in becoming who they are meant to be, and enjoys the vibrant writing community in the DMV. Kristin has been a Featured Reader at Words Out Loud at Glen Echo, Evil Grin in Annapolis, DiVerse Gaithersburg, and Third Thursday Poetry Series in Takoma Park. Her work has appeared in Beltway Quarterly Poetry, Nightingale and Sparrow, Bourgeon, Mojave He[Art] Review, Anti-Heroin Chic, and Fledgling Rag among others.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Duane Vorhees

Thu, 10 Sep 2020 00:00:00 GMT

Duane Vorhees and his wife and son moved the population of Farmersville, Ohio over the 1,000 mark when they moved there last year. He returned to his hometown after teaching in Korea and Japan. His book "Love's Autobiography" was published by Hawakal last summer and is available on Amazon. He manages a daily arts zine duanespoetree.blogspot.com, featuring contemporary poets from around the world. The mission of Quintessential Listening: Poetry is to provide a live format for emerging, mid-career and established poets to showcase their work. Whether traditional poetry or spoken word, the show offers an online vehicle for artists to engage in critical dialogue and discussion about poetry.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Susana H. Case

Thu, 03 Sep 2020 00:00:00 GMT

BIO: SUSANA H. CASE is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently Dead Shark on the NTrain in 2020 from Broadstone Books. Drugstore Blue (Five Oaks Press) won an IPPY Award in 2019. She is also the author of five chapbooks, two of which won poetry prizes. Her first collection, The Scottish Café, from Slapering Hol Press, was re-released in a dual-language English-Polish version, Kawiarnia Szkocka by Opole University Press. Poems by Case have appeared in Calyx, Catamaran, The Cortland Review, Portland Review, Potomac Review, Rattle, RHINO and many other journals. Case is a Professor and Program Coordinator at the New York Institute of Technology in New York City.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Cristina A. Bejan

Thu, 27 Aug 2020 00:00:00 GMT

To read Cristina A. Bejan's biographical sketch please visit https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/63866596/cristina-a-bejan The mission of Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio is to provide a live format for emerging, mid-career, and established poets to showcase their work. Whether traditional poetry or spoken word, the show offers an online vehicle for artists to engage in critical dialogue and discussion about poetry.If you would like to be a guest on QL: POR, please contact Dr. Michael Anthony Ingram at maingram@gmx.com.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Presents Dominique Jones

Thu, 20 Aug 2020 00:00:00 GMT

Dominique Jones is a multi-versed performance artist and mentor who has participated in many reputable performances through theatre, music, poetry, and dance. Recently In his journey as an artist, he has produced music for the stage as well as video and photography work for small businesses. In his poetry, he aims to explore the beauty and dirt of being human. Through his involvement in the community as a teacher, mentor, and artist, he was honored to be named one of the first U.S. Bank Future Leaders in 2018.

QLP_OR's 100th Episode Celebration!

Thu, 13 Aug 2020 00:00:00 GMT

Well, we've made it to 100! Tune in on August 12th for a little bit of reminiscing, great poetry, laughter, and celebrating. A special thanks to all the poets and writers who have appeared on the show. Every week I am amazed and inspired. I'd also like to thank all the listeners and supporters. I greatly appreciate your tuning in and encouraging my efforts. The short spoken word poetry clip was recorded 20+ years ago. Time flies!!!

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Sylvia "Ladi Di" Beverly

Thu, 30 Jul 2020 00:00:00 GMT

Bio Sylvia Dianne Beverly "Ladi Di" Sylvia Dianne Beverly is an Internationally acclaimed poet, presenting poetry In London, England, at the Lewisham Theater. Ladi Di is a Native Washingtonian. She attended University of District of Columbia, majoring in English. She is author of two books “Forever in Your Eyes” (Poems) and “Cooking Up South “ (Recipes and Poetry). A collection of her work is housed at George Washington University's Gelman Library. She is a member of A Splendid Wake, Gelman Library, George Washington University. Also, she has been featured at Smithsonian's Museum of History, African Arts Museum, Hirshon Museum and other Smithsonians. Ladi Di celebrated the 40th Anniversary of Host Grace Cavalieri, reading on her show "The Poet and the Poem" at the Library of Congress Experience. Ladi Di produces and presented “Males Making A Difference in Our World “. Men sharing their stories on how they have made an impact in their communities. Ladi Di is one of 6 County poets selected to present poetry in Poetry Poster Project. She has presented her poems at various events where 12 framed poems have hung. This includes reading at Maryland House of Delegates in Annapolis. She is one of three poets that accepted an invitation to tour the Woodlawn Plantation. While there, she wrote poems and the poems and poetic messages keep coming. Now “Voices of Woodlawn” is a powerful new presentation that premiered at Create Suitland by 5 poets and should be seeing by everyone. Recently Ladi Di was named “Poet of Excellence” for Prince George’s County by Prince George’s County Arts and Humanities Council, Office of Poet Laureate. Ladi Di is proud Matriarch of her Family.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Ethan Goffman

Thu, 23 Jul 2020 00:00:00 GMT

Ethan Goffman’s first volume of poetry, Words for Things Left Unsaid, is just out from Kelsay Books. Ethan is co-founder of It Takes a Community, a Montgomery College initiative bringing poetry to students and local residents. Ethan is also founder and producer of the Poetry & Planet podcast on EarthTalk.org.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents HERSTORY

Thu, 16 Jul 2020 00:00:00 GMT

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio proudly presents HERSTORY. HERSTORY is history written from a woman’s perspective. Noted poets Sophia Naz, Jackie Oldham, Marianne Szlyk and Lynne Spigelmire Viti will read poetry during the broadcast. For biographical sketches, please visit https://cloud.degoo.com/share/Fs5YYFHPUOfhEJ The mission of Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio is to provide a live format for emerging, mid-career, and established poets to showcase their work. Whether traditional poetry or spoken word, the show offers an online vehicle for artists to engage in critical dialogue and discussion about poetry. If you would like to be a guest on QL: P, please contact Dr. Michael Anthony Ingram at maingram@gmx.com.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Open Mic Night

Thu, 02 Jul 2020 00:00:00 GMT

Famed poet Audre Lord wrote the following: ". . . Poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change, first made into language, then into idea, then into more tangible action. Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest external horizons of our hopes and fears are cobbled by our poems, carved from the rock experiences of our daily lives." So call-in, lift your voice and spread poetry throughout the land.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Reading Series Presents Linda Imbler

Thu, 09 Jul 2020 00:00:00 GMT

Linda Imbler is the author of four poetry collections published at Amazon. Soma Publishing published two of her poetry books and one poetry-short fiction hybrid. She began writing in earnest five years ago. In addition to putting pen and paper to inventive use, Linda is an avid reader. This writer, yoga practitioner, and classical guitar player lives in Wichita, Kansas with her husband, Mike the Luthier, several quite intelligent saltwater fish, and an ever-growing family of gorgeous guitars. She’s been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and several Best of the Net awards. Learn more at lindaspoetryblog.blogspot.com.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Candice Kelsey

Thu, 25 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMT

CANDICE KELSEY‘s first book explored adolescent identity in the age of social media and was recognized as an Amazon.com Top Ten Parenting Book in 2007. Her poetry has appeared in Poet Lore, The Cortland Review, North Dakota Quarterly and many other journals. A finalist for Poetry Quarterly’s Rebecca Lard Award, Candice’s creative nonfiction was nominated for a 2019 Pushcart Prize. She is an educator of 20 years’ standing, devoted to working with young writers. An Ohio native, she lives in Los Angeles with her husband and three children.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Jonathan B. Tucker

Thu, 11 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMT

JBT is a writer, educator, performer, and poet based in Washington, DC. Sharing his work at schools, theaters, and venues around the world, he has performed in Cape Town, Boston, London, New York City, Stockholm, Seattle, the Kennedy Center, and the South African State Theater. Committed to empowering the next generation of artists and activists, for over 15 years he has been teaching and mentoring young people, creating outstanding opportunities for poets around the world.

Poems in a Time of Protest

Sun, 07 Jun 2020 19:00:00 GMT

Protest poetry cries out against wrongs (of any kind) that ought to be set right, whether they are social, political, environmental, etc. It’s not always kind and polite. It speaks truth to power. Poets have used their verses to oppose slavery, the segregation, Vietnam War, environmental issues and racial oppression, the Iraq war, and more recently, discrimination and police violence against African-Americans. James Baldwin in 1979 wrote that "You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can't, but also knowing that literature is indispensable to the world... The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even but a millimeter the way people look at reality, then you can change it… If there is no moral question, there is no reason to write." So, if you’re concerned about the state of the country, and the world, let your voice be heard. Call-in and express yourself through poetry. K McClendon - "Protest" Oct 9, 2019, youtube.com/watch?v=SoRC376hOMw. The DC Poetry Project, Inc. Educational Purposes.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Francis Diclemente

Thu, 04 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMT

Francis DiClemente is the author of five poetry collections, most recently Dreaming of Lemon Trees: Selected Poems (Finishing Line Press, 2019). His full-length stage play, Beyond the Glass, inspired by Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks, was produced by a regional theater in Las Vegas, Nevada, in 2017. He lives in Syracuse, New York, where he works as a video producer, and his blog can be found at francisdiclemente.com. The mission of Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio is to provide a live format for emerging, mid-career and established poets to showcase their work. Whether traditional poetry or spoken word, the show offers an online vehicle for artists to engage in critical dialogue and discussion about poetry. If you would like to be a guest on QL: P, please contact me at maingram@gmx.com. Magic Forest Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

National Mental Health Awareness Month Poetry Program

Fri, 22 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT

The program is sponsored by Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio and the National Alliance on Mental Illness, Washington, DC Chapter. Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio is a popular BlogtalkRadio podcast. It is also available on ITunes and Sound Cloud. Please visit www.blogtalkradio.com/ql_p for more details. NAMI DC is the local chapter for the National Alliance on Mental Illness in the District of Columbia, providing education, support, and advocacy for individuals and their families with mental illness. Donate The organization strives to fight stigma, provide support, and advocate for individuals with mental illness and their families. Your contribution will help strengthen the movement. Please click the link below to make your donation today. If you would like to donate in honor or memory of someone(s), please give us the name(s) the way you want it listed in the comment box provided at checkout. http://www.namidc.org/donate Membership Join thousands of Americans dedicated to improving the lives of people with mental illness.http://www.namidc.org/join-us Guest Poets To read their biographical sketches, please visit https://1drv.ms/w/s!At_9Hw2EcAFFhhqcVAnAPvYlUyWl?e=5L8iFq

QLP Reading Series Presents Sara Cahill Marron, Katy Bohinc and Lee Ann Brown

Thu, 14 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT

Sara Cahill Marron, a relocated New York poet living in Washington D.C., is the author of Reasons for the Long Tu’m (Broadstone Books, 2018) and Associate Editor of Beltway Poetry Quarterly. Her work has been published widely in literary magazines and journals such as Gravel, Atlas + Alice, Joey & the Black Boots, Cordella, Newtown Literary, South Florida Poetry Journal, Golden Walkman, Lunch Ticket, Poetry in the Time of Coronavirus, New Verse News, and others. You can read more of her work at www.saracahillmarron.com. https://poets.org/poet/lee-ann-brown

QL_P Presents I, Too, Know Why The Caged Bird Sings: Pandemic Poetry

Thu, 07 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT

It's open mic poetry night on Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio. So call-in and share your poetry about the pandemic and other topics. https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2020/0331/1127523-poetry-pandemic-coronavirus/ https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/poetry-in-the-times-of-covid-19/article31163319.ece https://www.pittoc.com/ https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/famous-lines-of-poetry-revised-for-the-age-of-coronavirus https://www.hindustantimes.com/art-and-culture/world-poetry-day-2020-10-poets-you-must-read-during-coronavirus-self-quarantine/story-qloqtHQFfN6u4L8FPNLGQK.html The mission of Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio is to provide a live format for emerging, mid-career and established poets to showcase their work. Whether traditional poetry or spoken word, the show offers an online vehicle for artists to engage in critical dialogue and discussion about poetry. If you would like to be a guest on QL: P, please contact Michael Anthony Ingram at maingram@gmx.com

QL_P Presents Poetry in the Age of the Coronavirus

Thu, 30 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMT

https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2020/0331/1127523-poetry-pandemic-coronavirus/ https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/poetry-in-the-times-of-covid-19/article31163319.ece https://www.pittoc.com/ https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/famous-lines-of-poetry-revised-for-the-age-of-coronavirus https://www.hindustantimes.com/art-and-culture/world-poetry-day-2020-10-poets-you-must-read-during-coronavirus-self-quarantine/story-qloqtHQFfN6u4L8FPNLGQK.html The mission of Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio is to provide a live format for emerging, mid-career and established poets to showcase their work. Whether traditional poetry or spoken word, the show offers an online vehicle for artists to engage in critical dialogue and discussion about poetry. If you would like to be a guest on QL: P, please contact Michael Anthony Ingram at maingram@gmx.com

The Quintessential Listening: Poetry Reading Series Presents Todd Cirillo

Thu, 23 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMT

Todd Cirillo is co-founder and editor of Six Ft. Swells Press. He is one of the originators of the After-Hours Poetry movement. Todd’s latest book is Kisses From A Straight Razor (Epic Rites Press, 2020) others include Burning the Evidence, Sucker’s Paradise, Everybody Knows the Dice Are Loaded, Still a Party, This Troubled Heart, Sexy Devils, along with ROXY, Three For the Road and Tonight, You’re Coming Home With Us which he co-authored. His poems have appeared in numerous national and international literary journals, magazines and cocktails napkins everywhere. Todd lives in New Orleans, Louisiana where he seeks out shiny moments and strange wisdom. He can be found at www.toddcirillo.com

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Austin Davis

Thu, 09 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMT

Austin Davis is a poet and student activist currently studying creative writing at ASU. Austin is the author of THE WORLD ISN’T THE SIZE OF OUR NEIGHBORHOOD ANYMORE, which was released by Weasel Press on March 3rd, 2020. The mission of Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio is to provide a live format for emerging, mid-career and established poets to showcase their work. Whether traditional poetry or spoken word, the show offers an online vehicle for artists to engage in critical dialogue and discussion about poetry. If you would like to be a guest on QL: P, please contact me at maingram@gmx.com.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Sophia Naz

Thu, 02 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMT

Sophia Naz is a bilingual poet, essayist, author, editor, and translator. She has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize, in 2016 for creative nonfiction and in 2018 for poetry. Her work features in numerous literary journals and anthologies, including Poetry International Rotterdam, The Adirondack Review, The Wire, Chicago Quarterly Review, Blaze Vox, Scroll, The Daily O, Cafe Dissensus, Guftugu, Pratik, Gallerie International, Coldnoon, VAYAVYA, The Bangalore Review, Madras Courier, etc Her poetry collections are Peripheries (2015), Pointillism (2017) and Date Palms (2017). Shehnaz, a biography of her mother published from Penguin Random House in November 2019. Sophia was born in Pakistan, to ethnically Indian parents and emigrated to the US in 1988. She was undocumented for 8 years before receiving political asylum in 1996. Sophia has lived in Glen Ellen California since 2010. In 2017 she lost her home to wildfires and her latest collection of poetry, Zero Period is a meditation on personal and collective loss as well as a consecration of our common humanity in the face of toxic identity politics. Her site is SophiaNaz.com

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Sharon Ingram

Thu, 12 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMT

Sharon Y. Ingram (Sistah Fire) is a native Washingtonian that has been writing poetry for 30+ years. She's a poet, playwright, event facilitator as well as a member of the Anointed Poets Empowered to Nurture Souls (P.E.N.S.) Poetry Ministry of Ebenezer A.M.E. Church. Also a 2019 World Food Day Poetry Competition Second Place Award Winner (an annual competition sponsored by the North American Liaison Office of the United Nations’Food and Agriculture Organization and Poetry X Hunger) (Dr.Hiram Larew, Founder, Poetry X Hunger). The mission of Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio is to provide a live format for emerging, mid-career and established poets to showcase their work. Whether traditional poetry or spoken word, the show offers an online vehicle for artists to engage in critical dialogue and discussion about poetry. If you would like to be a guest on QL: P, please contact me at maingram@gmx.com.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents - Gabrielle Oliver

Tue, 17 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMT

Born and raised in the DC area, Gabrielle Oliver is a first year MFA Creative Writing Poetry student at the University of Kentucky. She holds bachelor’s degrees from Howard University and Kansai Gaidai University in Osaka, Japan. A self-proclaimed linguist, Oliver is most proficient in Japanese – with her experience translating for the State Department, the Embassy of Japan, the National Cherry Blossom Festival, the Japan-America Society of Washington, DC, and for multiple DC-based newspapers – but has also studied American Sign Language (ASL), German, Dutch, Italian, and French. She was the Japan-America Society of Washington, DC’s 2018 Tanaka Green Scholarship recipient for her studies at Kansai Gaidai University, as well as for her diachronic research on the aboriginal Ainu language of Japan. This past summer of 2019, Gabrielle was awarded a writing fellowship with 7x NAACP Image Award-winning poet, Nikki Giovanni. She is currently published in the Spring 2019 issue of A Gathering Together Literary Journal.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents - Karla Linn Merrifield

Tue, 03 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMT

Karla Linn Merrifield, a nine-time Pushcart-Prize nominee and National Park Artist-in-Residence, has had 800+ poems appear in dozens of journals and anthologies. She has 14 books to her credit. Following her 2018 Psyche’s Scroll (Poetry Box Select) is the newly released full-length book Athabaskan Fractal: Poems of the Far North from Cirque Press. She is currently at work on a poetry collection, My Body the Guitar, inspired by famous guitarists and their guitars; the book is slated to be published in December 2021 by Before Your Quiet Eyes Publications Holograph Series (Rochester, NY). Her Godwit: Poems of Canada (FootHills Publishing) received the Eiseman Award for Poetry. She is a frequent contributor to The Songs of Eretz Poetry Review, and assistant editor and poetry book reviewer emerita for The Centrifugal Eye. She is a member of Just Poets (Rochester, NY), the Florida State Poetry Society, the New Mexico Poetry Society, and The Author's Guild. Visit her blog, Vagabond Poet Redux, at http://karlalinn.blogspot.com. Google her name to learn more; Tweet @LinnMerrifiel; https://www.facebook.com/karlalinn.merrifield.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents - James Steck

Thu, 30 Jan 2020 01:00:00 GMT

James Steck grew up in Albany, NY and now lives in Washington, DC. He studied art for a brief period, at Virginia Tech, before pursuing a degree in English. He currently teaches high school and coaches track and field in Fairfax, Virginia. He sketches frequently, enjoys sitting on fire escapes, and shares his poetry around the city at open mics and elsewhere—most recently with Makars Open Mic Series and The Inner Loop Literary Reading Series in DC. His most recent work is forthcoming with Wordpeace. His other poetry and artwork have appeared with small press print and online journals such as Tiny Spoon Literary Magazine Issue 3, Goat’s Milk Magazine Issue 4, The Wild Word, The Odd Magazine, Unlikely Stories Mark V, and others. He hopes to publish a chapbook within the year. You can find him on Instagram@jamodsteck or on Facebook as James David.

Quintessential Listen: Poetry Online Radio Presents - Heather Corbally Bryant

Thu, 23 Jan 2020 01:00:00 GMT

Heather Corbally Bryant is a Lecturer in the Writing Program at Wellesley College; previously she taught at Penn State University and Harvard College where she won awards for her teaching. She received her AB from Harvard and her PhD from the University of Michigan. Her first book, How Will the Heart Endure: Elizabeth Bowen and the Landscape of War (University of Michigan Press) won the Donald Murphy prize from the ACIS. She has published poems in The Christian Science Monitor, Sixteen, The Paddock Review, Old Frog Pond Chapbooks and in the anthologies: In Another Voice, Open-Eyed, Full-Throated: An Anthology of American/Irish Poets (Dublin: Arlen House, 2019) Cheap Grace, her first chapbook was published by the Finishing Line Press. Her second collection of poems, Lottery Ticket, was published in 2013 by the Parallel Press Series of the University of Wisconsin Libraries-Madison. Her third chapbook, Compass Rose, appeared in 2015 from The Finishing Line Press. My Wedding Dress, her first long collection of poems, was published by The Finishing Line Press in 2016. Thunderstorm, her second full-length volume of poetry, was published by The Finishing Line Press in the fall of 2017. It was nominated for a Mass Book Award in 2018. Her sixth collection of poetry, Eve’s Lament, was published by The Finishing Line Press in the winter of 2018. Her seventh collection of poetry, James Joyce’s Water Closet, (2018) won honorable mention in the Open Chapbook Competition of the Finishing Line Press. Two of her poems were nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2018. Her eighth collection of poetry, “Leaving Santorini,” appeared in 2018. Practicing Yoga in a Former Shoe Factory, her ninth collection of poems (and her fourth full-length one) will be published in the spring of 2020. She has given readings across the United States, and in Ireland. In September 2019, she gave the Bowen Memorial Lecture at the Farahy Church, County Cork.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents - Brian Rihlmann

Thu, 16 Jan 2020 01:00:00 GMT

Brian Rihlmann was born in New Jersey and currently resides in Reno, Nevada. He writes free verse poetry, and has been published in The Blue Nib, The American Journal of Poetry, Cajun Mutt Press, The Rye Whiskey Review, and others. His first poetry collection, “Ordinary Trauma,” (2019) was published by Alien Buddha Press. The primary mission of Quintessential Listening: Poetry is to provide a live format for emerging, mid-career and established poets to showcase their work. Whether traditional poetry or spoken word, the show offers an online vehicle for artists to engage in critical dialogue and discussion about poetry.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents - Duane Vorhees

Thu, 09 Jan 2020 01:00:00 GMT

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Presents - Octavio Gonzalez

Thu, 12 Dec 2019 01:00:00 GMT

Octavio is Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Wellesley College. His first poetry collection, The Book of Ours, was a selection of the chapbook series at Letras Latinas, University of Notre Dame (Momotombo Press, 2009). He is currently working on a second poetry manuscript, tentatively titled "The Wingless Hour." Some poems from this collection appear in Lambda Literary's Poetry Spotlight (shorturl.at/bgxKN), Anomaly, La Guagua, and the "Taboo" series at the La Casita Grande, as well as an anthology of Dominican poets in the diaspora (Retrato íntimo de poetas dominicanos, https://amzn.to/2Sz051V). Other poems appear in Puerto del Sol, OCHO, and MiPoesias, among other journals. González is also at work on what he calls an "ekphrastic memoir," the first part of which appears in the inaugural issue of the bilingual Latino Book Review; as well as on a closet drama (or dramatic dialogue), "Q & A." Act Two of "Q & A" will be dramatized for this radio hour. You can follow him on Twitter @TaviRGonzalez.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Presents - Sara Cahill Marron

Thu, 21 Nov 2019 01:00:00 GMT

Sara Cahill Marron is a relocated Queens, New York poet currently living in Washington, D.C. After earning her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in English Language & Literaturefrom St. John’s University, Sara moved to D.C. to pursue a degree in law at the George Washington University Law School. Poetry is her compass at the intersections of art & law. She is the author of Reasons for the Long Tu’m (Broadstone Books, 2018). Her workhas been published widely in literary magazines and journals such as Dark Matter, Chagrin River Review, Foliate Oak, Gravel, Crab Fat Magazine, Gravitas, Atlas + Alice, Joey & the Black Boots, The Write Launch, Cordella, and Newtown Literary. You can follow her on Instagram @saracmarron or twitter @misswind_ or read more of her work here: www.saracahillmarron.com

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Presents - An Evening with Catfish McDaris

Thu, 14 Nov 2019 01:00:00 GMT

Catfish McDaris has been active in the small press world for 30 years. His biggest seller is Prying: with Jack Micheline and Charles Bukowski. He has four walls, a ceiling, heat, food, a woman, a daughter, one cat, a typing machine, and a mailbox. Sometimes he gets lucky and someone publishes his words. In 1998 he read at a big Beatnik gathering in Cherry Valley, NY at Ginsberg’s farm. Catfish McDaris served in the Army artillery shooting 155 MM Howitzers. His dad was on the Bataan Death March and his older brother did two tours in Vietnam and retired as a sergeant major. Catfish is an aging New Mexican living near Milwaukee. His work has recently been translated into Spanish, Italian, French, Polish, Swedish, Arabic, Mandarin, Bengali, Mandarin, Tagalog, and Esperanto. His 30 years of published material is in the Special Archives Collection at Marquette Univ. in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Catfish McDaris 2368 S. 59th St. West Allis, WI 53219 U.S.A. Mcdar3@aol.com

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Presents - Dee Scribes

Thu, 31 Oct 2019 00:00:00 GMT

Dee Scribes has been a poet and cultural record-keeper since second grade. She uses language to highlight the needs of her community and her personal journey through life. She's been featured at The Gathering, P.O.G, National Arts & Humanities Celebration for Ebenezer AME Church, AWAKE and many other events in the DMV and Chicagoland area. She is CEO of Dee.Core Accessories, which allows her and her clientele to show their creativity through fashion. Although she holds a M.S. in instructional design and development, her favorite form of communication is hip-hop. A true B-girl/round-the-way girl for the south suburbs of Chicago, the realness of her message and heart of her cadence is bound to make every venue your favorite classroom.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Presents - Alan King

Thu, 24 Oct 2019 00:00:00 GMT

BIO: Bio: Alan King is the author of Point Blank (Silver Birch Press, 2016) and DRIFT (Willow Books/Aquarius Press, 2012). He's a Caribbean American, whose parents emigrated from Trinidad and Tobago to the U.S. in the 1970s. He’s also a husband, father, and communications professional who blogs about art and social issues at alanwking.com. A Cave Canem graduate fellow, he holds a Master's of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the Stonecoast Program at the University of Southern Maine. He’s been nominated multiple times for a Pushcart Prize and was a Best of the Net selection. He’s currently working on the DRIFT audiobook. He lives with his family in Bowie, Maryland.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Presents - Joseph Ross

Thu, 17 Oct 2019 00:00:00 GMT

Joseph Ross is the author of four books of poetry: Raising King (2020), Ache (2017), Gospel of Dust (2013) and Meeting Bone Man (2012). His poems appear in many places including, The Los Angeles Times, Poet Lore, Southern Quarterly, Xavier Review,, Beltway Poetry Quarterly and Drumvoices Revue. He has received multiple Pushcart Prize nominations and won the 2012 Pratt Library/Little Patuxent Review Poetry Prize. He recently served as the 23rd Poet-in-Residence for the Howard County Poetry and Literature Society in Howard County, Maryland. He teaches English and Creative Writing at Gonzaga College High School in Washington, D.C. and writes regularly at www.JosephRoss.net.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Presents - Derrick Weston Brown

Thu, 10 Oct 2019 00:00:00 GMT

Derrick Weston Brown holds an MFA in creative writing, from American University. He has studied poetry under Dr. Tony Medina at Howard University and Cornelius Eady at American University. He is a graduate of the Cave Canem and VONA Voices summer workshops. His work has appeared in such literary journals as The Little Patuxent Review, Colorlines, The This Mag, and Vinyl online. He was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2012. He worked as a bookseller andbook buyer for a bookstore which is operated by the nonprofit Teaching for Change. He was thefounder of The Nine on the Ninth, a critically acclaimed monthly poetry series that ran from 2005-2015 at the 14th & V street location of Busboys and Poets. He was the 2012-2013 Writer-In-Residence of the Howard County Poetry Literary Society, of Maryland. He is also a participating DC area author for the PEN/Faulkner Foundation’s Writers-in-Schools program. He’s performed at such esteemed venues as The Nuyorican Poets’ Cafe and the Bowery. He has lead workshops and performed at Georgetown University, George Washington University, Sweet Briar College and Chicago State. He has appeared on Al-Jazeera and NPR as well. In May of 2014 he was also the recipient of a Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Grant. He is a native of Charlotte, North Carolina, and resides in Mount Rainier, Maryland. His debut collection of poetry entitled, Wisdom Teeth, was released in April 2011 on Busboys and Poets Press/PM Press. His second collection of poetry, a chapbook entitled On All Fronts , was released along with two other poetry chapbooks in a bound series from Upper Rubber Boot Press entitled Floodgates Vol.5 , this March of 2019. You can follow him on social media on Facebook and on Instagram @theoriginalDerrickWestonBrown as well as his author website DerrickWestonBrown.com

The QL_P Reading Series Presents Bill Cushing

Tue, 08 Oct 2019 00:00:00 GMT

Bill Cushing has lived in Virginia, New York, Pennsylvania, Missouri, Florida, Maryland, the Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico before moving to California. As an undergrad, he was called the “blue collar” poet by classmates at the University of Central Florida because of his years serving in the Navy and later working as an electrician on oil tankers, naval vessels, and fishing boats before he returned to college at the age of 37. He earned an MFA in writing from Goddard College in Vermont and teaches at East Los Angeles and Mt. San Antonio colleges, residing in Glendale with his wife and their son. As a writer, Bill has been published in various literary journals, magazines, and newspapers, including Birders World and The San Juan Star. His short stories have appeared in Borfski Press, Newtown Literary Journal, and Sediments. He had poems in both volumes of the award-winning Stories of Music. His poetry has appeared in numerous journals, both in print and online, including Avocet, Brownstone Review, Mayo Review, Penumbra, Spectrum, The Song Is..., and West Trade Review. When not teaching or writing, Bill facilitates a writing workshop in Eagle Rock, California (9 Bridges). He also performs with a musician in a project called “Notes and Letters.” He invites anyone interested to visit and “like” their Facebook page or check their youtube page by searching “Chuck Corbisiero Bill Cushing Notes and Letters.”A nominee for both a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net, Bill was named as one of the Top Ten Poets of L.A. in 2017, and in 2018, he was honored as on the ten poets to watch in L. A. His recent book, A Former Life, was released in June 2019 by Finishing Line Press, and he won the 2019 San Gabriel Valley Chapbook Competition with Music Speaks, a volume currently being prepared for wider release.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Presents - J.P. Dancing Bear

Tue, 24 Sep 2019 00:00:00 GMT

J. P. Dancing Bear is editor for the Verse Daily and Dream Horse Press. He is the author of fourteen collections of poetry, most recently, Cephalopodic (Glass Lyre Press, 2015. His most recent book, Fishing Singing Foxes came out in March of 2019 by Salmon Poetry. His next collection, Of Oracles and Monsters, which will be released by Glass Lyre Press in the fall of 2019. His work has appeared in hundreds of magazines and anthologies including American Literary Review, Crazyhorse, Plume, Quarterly West, and others. Editor, Verse Daily editor/owner, Dream Horse Press twitter.com/jpdancingbear

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Presents - Todd Cirillo

Tue, 17 Sep 2019 00:00:00 GMT

Todd Cirillo is a writer, poet, publisher and pirate. He is one of the originators of After-Hour Poetry and co-founder and editor of Six Ft. Swells Press. His books include: Burning the Evidence (Epic Rites Press, 2017), Sucker’s Paradise, Sexy Devils, Still a Party, This Troubled Heart and ROXY and Three For the Road (which he co-authored) among others. Todd is widely known for his poetry performances. He has been published in numerous national and international publications and on cocktail napkins everywhere. Todd lives in New Orleans, Louisiana and can be found soaking his pirate heart in second lines and smiling under the neons searching for shiny moments. You can find books, videos, poems at toddcirillo.com

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Presents - Tzynya Pinchback

Tue, 10 Sep 2019 00:00:00 GMT

Tzynya Pinchback is the author of the chapbook, How to Make Pink Confetti (Dancing Girl Press, 2012). Poems and essays from her current manuscript, Tulle, have appeared or are forthcoming in The American Poetry Journal, the Aurorean, Mom Egg Review, Midnight & Indigo, and Up the Staircase Quarterly. She writes about things at www.tzynyapinchback.com. The primary mission of Quintessential Listening: Poetry is to provide a live format for emerging, mid-career and established poets to showcase their work. Whether traditional poetry or spoken word, the show offers an online vehicle for artists to engage in critical dialogue and discussion about poetry.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Presents - Cynthia Manick

Tue, 03 Sep 2019 00:00:00 GMT

Cynthia Manick is the author of Blue Hallelujahs (Black Lawrence Press, 2016). She has received fellowships from Cave Canem, Hedgebrook, and the MacDowell Colony among others. Winner of the Lascaux Prize in Collected Poetry, Manick was also awarded Honorable Mention for the 2019 Furious Flower Poetry Prize. She is Founder and Curator of the reading series Soul Sister Revue; and her poem "Things I Carry Into the World" was made into a film by Motionpoems, an organization dedicated to video poetry, and has debuted on Tidal for National Poetry Month. A performer at literary festivals, libraries, universities, and most recently the Brooklyn Museum, Manick’s work has appeared in the Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day Series, Callaloo, Kweli Journal, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Wall Street Journal, and elsewhere. She currently resides in Brooklyn, New York. Photo by Robin Martin.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Presents - Jessica Lyew-Ayee Flynn

Tue, 27 Aug 2019 00:00:00 GMT

Jessica Lyew-Ayee Flynn started her life journey in Kingston, Jamaica, moving to the United States at the age of eight and has since lived in various cities across the country. Her poetry explores topics on mixed-race heritage, culture shock, and the challenges within interracial marriage and cross-cultural love. The primary mission of Quintessential Listening: Poetry is to provide a live format for emerging, mid-career and established poets to showcase their work. Whether traditional poetry or spoken word, the show offers an online vehicle for artists to engage in critical dialogue and discussion about poetry.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Presents - Valeri Beers Poetry and Book Launch

Tue, 13 Aug 2019 00:00:00 GMT

Valeri Beers is from Bangor, Maine. Her first book of poems titled ...details... published by Thomas Hill Publishing. This is her second poetry book titled "Scratching The Surface", published by Underground Writer's Association. She has been writing all her life and is inspired to write by listening to music and needing to remember things. Valeri has been published in a number of literary magazines including anthologies by Literature Today, Lit House, The Wicked, Poets of Maine, Qutub Minar Review, Clockwise Rain, Literature Today (Vol. 1-7), Our Day of Passing, Dandelion in a Vase of Roses and Poetry Pasta She has links to her poems on her own poetry site: wordsoftheval2000.wordpress.com. You can also connect with her on Facebook (Valeri Beers) and Twitter (@theval2000). She has been a guest poet on Quintessential Listening: Poetry before talking all things poetic and reading her own poems. Valeri also helps take poetic care of Poetry Pasta (www.poetrypasta.wordpress.com), an online poetry page that shows off new poets and their words and is also the curator of the Poetry Pasta Facebook page. Music: https://www.bensound.com Music from https://filmmusic.io "Reaching Out" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Presents - Indran Amirthanayagam

Tue, 06 Aug 2019 00:00:00 GMT

Indran Amirthanayagam (www.indranmx.com) is an American poet and diplomat, He writes in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese and Haitian Creole. He has published sixteen poetry collections thus far, including the just-released Coconuts on Mars (www.paperwall.in), En busca de posada (Editorial Apogeo, Lima, 2019) and Paolo 9 (Manofalsa, Lima, 2019). The Elephants of Reckoning (Hanging Loose Press, NY, 1993) won the 1994 Paterson Prize in the United States. Uncivil War (Tsar/Mawenzi House, Toronto, 2013) tells the history of the Sri Lankan Civil War. The Splintered Face: Tsunami Poems (Hanging Loose Press, NY, 2008) was written in the wake of the Asian Tsunami of 2004. Other books include Il n'est de solitude que l'île lointaine (Legs Editions, Haiti, 2017), and Ventana Azul (El Tapiz del Unicornio, Mexico City, 2016), In music, he has released Rankont Dout (available to download from all the music stores). He has written on poetry for the blog http://indranamirthanayagam.blogspot.com. He directs Poetry at the Port, a monthly spoken-word series at Port Au Prince restaurant in Silver Spring. He is on the Board of Directors of DC-ALT, an association of literary translators. He writes a weekly column featuring poems for the newspaper Haiti en Marche. Amirthanayagam is a past recipient of fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, The US/Mexico Fund for Culture and the Macdowell Colony.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Presents - Adam Shames

Tue, 20 Aug 2019 00:00:00 GMT

Adam Shames is a poet, singer-songwriter, musician, storyteller and workshop leader whose collection of poems, Dreaming of Corners (http://kreativity.net/creative-vault), is available from Lulu Press (http://www.lulu.com/shop/adam-shames/dreaming-in-corners/paperback/product-23316909.html). He founded the Kreativity Network (http://kreativity.net) in San Francisco, where he first brought groups of people together for salons, jams and workshops to explore creativity, later expanding it into his consulting practice in Chicago, through which he has designed and led leadership retreats, innovation sessions and collaboration experiences for thousands of adults and youth. Now living in DC, Adam has also been executive director of a non-profit interfaith creativity program, and is a former “Teacher of the Year” with a master’s degree from Stanford University.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Presents - Andrew Kerr

Tue, 30 Jul 2019 00:00:00 GMT

Drew Kerr is a PhD student in anthropology. While he intends for his research to engage the anthropology of militarized zones, he utilizes poetry as a tool to reflect, digest, and present his own and interlocutors’ struggles living the realities of such spaces. Having lived in India during the formative years of his political and social orientations, Drew draws on revolutionary forms and themes of South Asian poetries. Recently, Drew's exploration in poetry and performance has been nurtured by the community of the Washington, DC Guerilla Poetry Insurgency.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Presents - Jessica Philie Park

Tue, 23 Jul 2019 00:00:00 GMT

Jessica Philie Park is a founding member of the DC Guerrilla Poetry Insurgency (GPI) and co-hosts the GPI Open Mic (https://bossadc.com/events/dcgpi-open-mic-night) every second Tuesday of the month at Bossa in Adams Morgan. She has lived in DC for 24 years and works as a bookkeeper. She started writing in her teens and did her first open mic in her twenties. Her pieces are inspired by current events and personal growth. Jessica thinks anyone could and everyone should give an open mic a shot, because it’s amazing to share with others and find out we all have so much in common.

The QL_P Reading Series Featuring Heather Bryant and Octavio R. González

Tue, 16 Jul 2019 00:00:00 GMT

Heather Corbally Bryant teaches in the Writing Program at Wellesley College. She has taught at the Pennsylvania State University, the University of Michigan, and Harvard College where she won awards for her teaching. She received her A.B. with honors in History and Literature from Harvard. She received her PhD in Literature from the University of Michigan. Her academic publications include, How Will the Heart Endure: Elizabeth Bowen and the Landscape of War (University of Michigan Press, 1992). It was awarded the Murphy Prize for best first book. In 2018, she published her work of creative nonfiction, You Can’t Wrap Fire in Paper, which explores her grandmother’s years as a journalist in Shanghai during the 1920s. Since 2011 she has published six books of poetry with the Finishing Line Press: Cheap Grace, Compass Rose, My Wedding Dress, Thunderstorm, Eve’s Lament, and James Joyce’s Water Closet (forthcoming). The Parallel Press Poetry Series of the University of Wisconsin at Madison published her chapbook, Lottery Ticket (2013). To read more please visit, https://1drv.ms/w/s!At_9Hw2EcAFFgj8WDh03U5YRWbO0 Octavio González is Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Wellesley College. His first poetry collection, The Book of Ours, was a selection of the chapbook series at Letras Latinas, University of Notre Dame (Momotombo Press, 2009). He is currently working on a second poetry manuscript, tentatively titled "The Wingless Hour." To read more please visit https://1drv.ms/w/s!At_9Hw2EcAFFgj8WDh03U5YRWbO0 “Royalty Free Music from MusicCatRF.com

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Presents - John MacDonald

Tue, 09 Jul 2019 00:00:00 GMT

John MacDonald is a Maryland poet living in Silver Spring, near Washington, DC. He experiments in a variety of styles of poetry and poetry performance. His poems have appeared in various publications, including Gargoyle Magazine, Haiku Journal, Poetry Quarterly, and Dual Coast Magazine. Seven of his poems appear in Music of the Aztecs, an anthology featuring poets from the Washington, DC area. He has directed and presented several choral presentations of his poems, as a guest of the Performetry @ BloomBars series in Washington, DC, and is an occasional guest poet for Poetic License and Poetic Resistance, two poetry-inspired improvisational comedy troupes based in Washington, DC.

Ahmad AlKhatat's Wounds from Iraq - Book Launch and Poetry Reading

Tue, 02 Jul 2019 00:00:00 GMT

"Once again, Ahmad Alkhatat uses his excellent writing talents to create sorrowful but beautiful images, this time as he visits the place of his birth, Baghdad, Iraq. The book begins with poems that describe his feelings about the visit and what he sees. “The Cost of Cigarettes,” “In A Random Street in Baghdad,” “Wounds From Iraq,” “At the Airport” and “Baghdad Taxi.” all denote images of the flavor and culture of Baghdad itself. Ahmad also shows his heart and sympathy for what is happening or has happened within Iraq and Syria with such poems as “Flooding in Aleppo,” “The Crying Girl on the Border” and “My Colorful Sorrows In Iraq.” We expect poets to show emotion within their work, but not all do it with such heartbreaking ‘hit on the mark.’ Mr. Alkhatat always has a wish for peace that can be seen in the form of a prayer in his books. This book contains at least two prayers for peace and comfort for Iraq and neighboring countries, “Send My Salutations” and “Will the Gate of Mesopotamia open for us?” (Will someone wake us up and give the key so that our dreams can come true.) “If Santa Clause Was In…” is stunning and worthy of much thought. (If Santa Clause was in Syria, he would never forgive himself, Knowing that all the children waiting in tombs in the dying gardens.) The book ends with “My Childhood” as he reminds those of us in safer places that there is horror and loss going on in other places in the world. While I enjoyed the entire book and gave each poem several reads, there are two that I could return to read every single day for the foreseeable future. The first is the beautifully penned, “The Beautiful Dream of Baghdad.” The other worthy of many reads is “Grief and Palm Trees in Iraq.” -Linda Imbler-

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Salutes Unstoppable By Design

Tue, 25 Jun 2019 00:00:00 GMT

Unstoppable by Design is a play that explores the life of Matt Rifenburg who at times has been homeless, friendless, hungry, married to someone addicted to drugs, a clueless father trying to raise his son, and a man losing his job and being diagnosed with a brain tumor in the same week. Refusing to give up, he applies for a job at Cornell University. Will his determination to overcome be enough to convince the interviewers he is worthy of a design position in the particle physics lab despite dropping out of school at 15 and never returning or will this be the end of his journey? Biographical sketches of the artists involved in the production of Unstoppable by Design https://1drv.ms/w/s!At_9Hw2EcAFFgjN2I1mp2JuS8lcE

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Presents - bes

Tue, 18 Jun 2019 00:00:00 GMT

bes is the nom de guerre of a poetperformer, transdisciplinary researcher, conscientious creator and advocate for civil and human rights. Currently Washington, D.C.based, bes began collaborating with Art Is Dead (A.I.D.), an Istanbul-rooted “art and non-art formation” while living in Turkey in her early-mid twenties. Her poetry attempts to scrape the borderlands of memoir, activism, and antropoesía (Resato 2013), verse with an ethnographic sensibility. Arab American poetry and the Beat movement are important strands of influence in her thematic and stylistic tendencies. Involvements in choral and vocal performance, theatre and competitive creative writing and public speaking from an early age inform her poetic praxis today. Recently, bes has shared her work at open mics hosted by Muslim Writers Collective- D.C. (May 2019), D.C. Guerilla Poets Insurgency (February, March, April, May, June) and Istanbul Spoken Word (October, November 2018) and supplied extended vocal improv in a free jazz/noise quartet at A.I.D. Ankara #3 in October 2018. She is a member of the Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA-NA) and RAWI, the Radius of Arab American Writers. You can follow bes' work on Facebook, Instagram and Vimeo. Best,

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Presents -Corey Veraceouz Houser

Tue, 11 Jun 2019 00:00:00 GMT

Corey Veraceouz Houser is a 36 years old actor, author, father, poet, singer, songwriter, pianist, and a producer from Santee, SC and resides in Atlanta, GA. The word "Veraceouz" means representing or speaking the truth. Ever since 13 years old Veraceouz has been expressing his feelings through his art. Veraceouz's art comes from deep within his soul. It's deeper than the art, it's about helping one another, helping our people to reach their full potential, building a relationship with God, and making a difference in the world.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Presents - Gregory Luce

Tue, 28 May 2019 00:00:00 GMT

Gregory Luce is the author of the chapbooks Signs of Small Grace (Pudding House Publications) and Drinking Weather (Finishing Line Press), the collection Memory and Desire (Sweatshoppe Publications), and the chapbook Tile, (Finishing Line). His poems have appeared in numerous print and online journals, including Kansas Quarterly, Cimarron Review, Innisfree Poetry Review, Northern Virginia Review, Foundling Review, MiPOesias, Little Patuxent Review, Words Dance, Rising Tide Review, Wordgathering, Faircloth Review, Broadkill Review, Bourgeon, Deaf Poets Society, Maryland Poetry Review, Mile Nine, and in the anthologies Living in Storms (Eastern Washington University Press), Bigger Than They Appear (Accents Publishing), and Unrequited: An Anthology of Love Poems about Inanimate Objects. In 2014, he was awarded the Larry Neal Award for adult poetry by the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities. He is retired from the National Geographic Society, volunteers as a writing tutor/mentor for 826DC, and lives in Arlington, VA.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Presents - Naomi Thiers

Tue, 21 May 2019 00:00:00 GMT

I grew up partly in central California—where I still have family --and partly in Pittsburgh—where I had my first fantastic poetry teacher. I’ve lived in the Washington, DC area, my chosen home, for most of my life. Studying poetry at George Mason University, where I got my MFA around 1990, was a joyful experience of immersion in writing. In 1992, my first book of poetry Only The Raw Hands Are Heaven won the Washington Writers Publishing House competition, bringing me into another writing community. My other books are In Yolo County and She Was a Cathedral, a collection of poems about remarkable women (Finishing Line Press). My poetry, fiction, book reviews, articles, and interviews have been published in Virginia Quarterly Review, Poet Lore, Colorado Review, Potomac Review, Grist, Sojourners, and many other magazines, and anthologies, and I’m a former poetry editor of Phoebe magazine. I now work as an editor with Educational Leadership magazine.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Presents - Brianna McGowan

Tue, 07 May 2019 00:00:00 GMT

Brianna strongly believes that the most effective leadership is through service, getting to know people on a profound level and recognizing humanity in everyone. Poetry for Brianna is a tool to hold a mirror to society, and to herself, to show not what is right or wrong, but what is - and let the people determine what they feel are injustices. Poetry is also a medicine for whenever her soul hurts and needs to heal, or whenever she wishes to heal others. Currently, she works at IH as a creative data analyst, primarily working in Python to automate the data infrastructure. She volunteers as a Python Lead for Women Who Code DC to empower women in the tech industry, and as a Tech Instructor for Black Girls Code to inspire youth of color to be curious and excited about more inclusive technology. She also teaches modern dance at Capitol Hill Arts Workshop to encourage youth to strengthen their creative movement and expression, and she does open mics to listen to the community, and to keep herself centered and sane.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Presents - John Patrick Robbins

Tue, 30 Apr 2019 00:00:00 GMT

John Patrick Robbins is the editor of The Rye Whiskey Review, Under The Bleachers and Drinkers Only. He is also the author of three books. Smoking At The Gas Pumps and Once Upon A Nervous Breakdown from Soma Publishing. Sex Drugs & Poetry from Whiskey City Press. His publications include: Ariel Chart, Mojave River Review, San Pedro River Review, Red Fez, Piker Press, Punk Noir Magazine, Angry Old Man Magazine, Horror Sleaze Trash, The Dope Fiend Daily, Outlaw Poetry Network, Five Two Poetry, Blue Pepper, Blognostics, Romingos Porch. He is also a co-host of Guest Haus with Mark Antony Rossi. On the Strength To Be Human Podcast. His work is always unfiltered.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry - Kim Bailey

Tue, 16 Apr 2019 00:00:00 GMT

Kim D. Bailey is a 2016 Pushcart Nominee for nonfiction, and 2018 Best of the Net Nominee for poetry. Currently, she works as a paid reviewer for Carpe Librum books and does some freelance work on the side. She is published in several online and print journals and in audio, including but not limited to Firefly Magazine, Tuck Magazine, Drunk Monkeys, The Scarlet Leaf Review, Writer's Digest, Anti Heroine Chic, Sick Lit, The Song Is, Indigent Press, The 52 Men Podcast, and Tupelo Press. Kim was a columnist for Five 2 One Literary Magazine from June 2016 to October 2017, writing to Breaking the Legacy of Silence. She has also held editorial positions with Firefly Magazine and Sick Lit Magazine. At the moment, Kim is taking her creativity a day at a time and is compiling a memoir as well as poems for a chapbook. She lives in Pennsylvania with her husband and two dogs. You can find her work mostly compiled at Kim D. Bailey. www.kimbaileyspradlin.com

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Presents - Duane Vorhees

Tue, 09 Apr 2019 00:00:00 GMT

Duane Vorhees and his wife and son moved the population of Farmersville, Ohio over the 1,000 mark when they moved there last year. He returned to his hometown after teaching in Korea and Japan. His book "Love's Autobiography" was published by Hawakal last summer and is available on Amazon. He manages a daily arts zine duanespoetree.blogspot.com, featuring contemporary poets from around the world. The primary mission of Quintessential Listening: Poetry is to provide a live format for poets to showcase their work. Whether traditional poetry or spoken word, the show offers an online vehicle for artists to engage in critical dialogue and discussion about the art and craft of poetry.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Presents - Valeri Beers

Tue, 02 Apr 2019 00:00:00 GMT

Valeri Beers is from Bangor, Maine. Her first book of poems titled ...details... published by Thomas Hill Publishing. This is her second poetry book titled "Scratching The Surface", published by Underground Writer's Association. She has been writing all her life and is inspired to write by listening to music and needing to remember things. Valeri has been published in a number of literary magazines including anthologies by Literature Today, Lit House, The Wicked, Poets of Maine, Qutub Minar Review, Clockwise Rain, Literature Today (Vol. 1-7), Our Day of Passing, Dandelion in a Vase of Roses and Poetry Pasta She has links to her poems on her own poetry site: wordsoftheval2000.wordpress.com. You can also connect with her on Facebook (Valeri Beers) and Twitter (@theval2000) She has been a guest poet on the DC Poetry Project's Power of Poetics Blogtalk Radio show, talking all things poetic and reading her own poems. Valeri also helps take poetic care of Poetry Pasta (www.poetrypasta.wordpress.com), an online poetry page that shows off new poets and their words and is also the curator of the Poetry Pasta Facebook page.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Presents - Poetically Correct!

Tue, 23 Apr 2019 00:00:00 GMT

Aaron R., also known as - Aaron R The Poet - writes poetry and also produces and directs short poem films. Poetry is a way to express real-life situations in a way that all people can relate to using a myriad of topics. Aaron R was the winner of first ever World Food Day poetry competition organized by Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Aaron R has also had poems featured in books on social justice. Aaron R also has a book Poetically Correct Volume 1 available on Amazon.com and iTunes. Aaron can be reached at aaronRpoems.com. J.Swann aka Blackswann and is a Rap Artist/Poet from Baltimore MD. He's been doing music for years, performing out of state in different cities. Not too long ago, he won a Caribbean open mic contest in Philadelphia. And right now he is working on his BlackSwann album which will be available in early April. Rebecca, a Louisiana native, is an educator, photographer, PhD student, and award-winning poet whose writing, performance, and contribution to the poetry community has been recognized in Philadelphia, Baltimore and beyond. Rebecca is the founder and creative director of A DOSE OF DUPAS, an event-based poetry company that houses several live art events as well as national artist development events. In addition to performance, production and commissioned composition, Rebecca has published four CDs and a book of original works entitled "The Exchange". Rebecca has appeared on Centric, Fox 5, and OneMicTV.com. A recent tour included appearances on C- Span & PBS News and in The Washington Post alongside President Clinton. For a longer bio, please visit rebeccadupas.com/bio.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Presents - Pearl Brown

Tue, 26 Mar 2019 00:00:00 GMT

Writer's Biography Pearl Brown holds a Bachelors of Science degree in Chemistry, She is a Montessori Certified Middle and High School Teacher. She teaches Math and Science at the Oneness Family School (from 2014 till the present) in Chevy Chase, Maryland. I first began writing at the young age of 7 or 8. Writing was a way of expressing my love of reading. When I wrote the words came to me effortlessly. I wanted to write a story that reflected the great pleasure that I had when I read stories. I wrote a book about a young girl and her dog surviving a hurricane. I wrote the story, drew the illustrations, designed the book cover and neatly stapled the pages to fit into a book form. The name of the book was, “A Girl, Her Dog, and the Hurricane.” I even read it to my first - grade class. My next bout of writing occurred during my teenage years. My writing reflected the annoyance of my interfering and confused parents’ as they attempted to parent their rebellious daughter. I also wrote of puppy love and the devastation of my first break-up. Then I got married, had children and began the process of pouring my life and love into their hearts. It was during this time that I began to write again. My “Eros” poems reflected my ownership of the joy I found in my intimate relationships. As my sons got older, I wrote, “A Mother’s Reflection: Aset of poems dedicated to the growth/challenges I had in the relationships with my sons.” As life got busier and busier, I stopped writing and put away my poetry. Last year, on a challenge, to redirect my life so that it reflected my first joy, I dusted off and unearthed my poems and for the first time, I began to read them to my friends and on the stage of Bossa. I love the energy and the joy that reading my poetry gives me. I plan to continue writing and speaking my work.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Presents HERSTORY

Tue, 19 Mar 2019 00:00:00 GMT

In celebration of National Women's History Month, the Blogtalk Radio program Quintessential Listening: Poetry presents HERSTORY. Noted poets Francine Montemurro, Pamela L. Taylor, and Lynne Spigelmire Viti will read from their works during the broadcast. Francine Montemurro was born in Yonkers, NY, grew up in Hastings-on-Hudson, and has lived hither and yon. Her poems have appeared in the Paterson Literary Review, and have been on exhibit at Boston City Hall. She’s read her poems in and around Boston where she currently lives, works, and spends time with many friends, human and canine, real and imaginary. Pamela L. Taylor is a data guru by day and a poet by night. Pamela’s first chapbook of poetry, My Mother’s Child, was published by Hyacinth Girl Press (2015). Her recent work has appeared in The Adirondack Review and Atlas and Alice. When Pamela is not working or writing, she’s dancing Argentine tango in the Boston area. Her blog, A Poet's Double Life, focuses on balancing poetry with a non-literary career. Lynne Spigelmire Viti was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland. She is a lecturer emerita in the Writing Program at Wellesley College. A graduate of Mercy High School in Baltimore, she attended the College of Notre Dame of Maryland, and received her B.A.cum laude in English Literature from Barnard College. After teaching high school English for several years in Stamford, Connecticut and Brookline, Massachusetts, she earned her Ph.D. and J.D. from Boston College.Viti has authored numerous academic articles on legal topics, composition theory and, literature and media. Her first chapbook, Baltimore Girls, was published in March, 2017, and her second collection, The Glamorganshire Bible, in 2018 (both from Finishing Line Press). She is also the author of a poetry micro chapbook, (Origami Poems Project 2017).

Quintessential Listening: Poetry - Octaviano Merecias-Cuevas

Tue, 18 Dec 2018 02:00:00 GMT

Octaviano Merecias-Cuevas hails from Portland, Oregon. He is a spoken word artist, visual storyteller, and tri-lingual writer. Octaviano has presented and published his work in Mexico and the US. He writes in Mixteco, Spanish and English about contemporary issues affecting/shaping the Latino/Xicano/Hispanic/Indigenous experience in the US. Octaviano is also a motivational speaker, photographic artist, and educator, who works with a socially-engaged and social-emotional brain-targeted practices facilitating workshops, talks, discussion, forums, conferences, collaboratories with groups in the US and abroad. Octaviano spends most of his free time, volunteering as a mentor, participant or advisor in commissions, boards, campaigns and organizations that represent values of unity, healing, diversity, equity, inclusion, arts, culture and belonging. Mr. Merecias-Cuevas utilizes the latest research information on cognitive-behavioral neuroscience to inform and complement the deliverance of his interactive and multilingual presentations. Octaviano holds a Master’s Degree from the School of Language, Culture & Society at Oregon State University and is currently pursuing a professional graduate certificate at Johns Hopkins University in the Mind, Brain and Teaching Program.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry - Linda Imbler

Tue, 11 Dec 2018 01:00:00 GMT

Linda Imbler is the author of three published poetry collections, "Big Questions, Little Sleep," "Lost and Found," and "The Sea’s Secret Song" which is an e-book published by Soma Publishing. Her new e-book "Pairings" is now available. It is also to be published by Soma Publishing. "Pairings" is a collection of short fiction pieces and each story is loosely coupled with one of Linda’s poems. Since writing her first poem for publication almost four years ago, she has had her poetry and short fiction published in numerous national and international journals and dozens of anthologies. In addition to putting pen and paper to inventive use, Linda is an avid reader and budding illustrator, Yoga and Tai Chi practitioner, stargazer, and classical guitar player. She lives in Wichita, Kansas with her husband, Mike the Luthier, several quite intelligent saltwater fish, and an ever-growing family of gorgeous guitars which she helps Mike build. She feels honored and very humbled to have been nominated in 2017 for the Pushcart Prize for her poem "Ensorcelled Within the Moonlit Eyes of P’aqo" and twice in 2018 for Best of the Net for her poems "Guitar" and "The Value of Shadows." Linda’s poetry and a listing of her publications can be found at lindaspoetryblog.blogspot.com.

A Salute to the Poetic Legacy of Clif Collins

Tue, 20 Nov 2018 01:00:00 GMT

Clif Collins was an English professor at Montgomery College, Rockville, MD. He taught at the college for 25 years. In 2017, he wrote the book "Lives of the Apostles." The book (available on Amazon), encompasses themes of grief, loss, betrayal, coming of age, endurance, and love (in its various forms). Further, it examines the momentary circumstances of everyday people as they try to connect with life in the modern age. Friends and colleagues of Clif's will salute his poetic legacy by reading from “Lives of the Apostles.”

Quintessential Listening: Poetry - Ryan Quinn Flanagan

Tue, 27 Nov 2018 01:00:00 GMT

Ryan Quinn Flanagan is a Canadian-born author presently residing in Elliot Lake, Ontario, Canada with his wife and many bears that rifle through his garbage. He is a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominated writer whose work has been translated into both Italian and Bangla. His work can be found both in print and online in such places as: The New York Quarterly, Evergreen Review, Ariel Chart, Cultural Weekly, This Song Is..., Ramingo's Porch, Setu, The Rye Whiskey Review, Outlaw Poetry Network, Under The Bleachers, Hidden Constellation, PPP Ezine, The Dope Fiend Daily, Poetry Bulawayo (Zimbabwe), Our Poetry Archive, The Australia Times Poetry and The Oklahoma Review. He is the author of almost 50 books of poetry, the latest of which are: Tiger in the Tall Grass, Panthers in the Street from Leaf Garden Press, Once Around the Maypole, Twice Around the Sun from Marathon Books, Return to Vegas Poems from Alien Buddha Press, Poems to Knock the Sun Out of the Sky from Pski's Porch, In WInter's Dreams We Wake from Weasel Press, These Things You See from Clare Songbirds Publishing House and Juggernaut Fuzz from Cajun Mutt Press. His personal website is http://ryanquinnflanagan.yolasite.com/

Quintessential Listening: Poetry - Heather Bryant

Tue, 13 Nov 2018 01:00:00 GMT

Heather Corbally Bryant teaches in the Writing Program at Wellesley College. She has taught at the Pennsylvania State University, the University of Michigan, and Harvard College where she won awards for her teaching. She received her A.B. with honors in History and Literature from Harvard. She received her PhD in Literature from the University of Michigan. Her academic publications include, How Will the Heart Endure: Elizabeth Bowen and the Landscape of War (University of Michigan Press, 1992). It was awarded the Murphy Prize for best first book. In 2018, she published her work of creative nonfiction, You Can’t Wrap Fire in Paper, which explores her grandmother’s years as a journalist in Shanghai during the 1920s. Since 2011 she has published six books of poetry with the Finishing Line Press: Cheap Grace, Compass Rose, My Wedding Dress, Thunderstorm, Eve’s Lament, and James Joyce’s Water Closet (forthcoming). The Parallel Press Poetry Series of the University of Wisconsin at Madison published her chapbook, Lottery Ticket (2013). In addition, she has published poems in The Christian Science Monitor, In Other Words, and Fourth & Sycamore. James Joyce’s Water Closet, her seventh book of poems, won honorable mention in the Finishing Line Press Open Chapbook Competition of 2018 and is going to be nominated for a Pushcart Prize. It is forthcoming in the fall of 2018. Her eighth book of poems, Island Dream Songs, a full-length collection, will be published in early 2019. Thunderstorm has been nominated for a Massachusetts Book Award.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry - Aaron R.

Tue, 06 Nov 2018 01:00:00 GMT

Aaron R also known as - Aaron R The Poet - writes poetry and also produces and directs short poem films. Poetry is a way to express real life situations in a way that all people can relate to using a myriad of topics. Aaron R was the winner of first ever World Food Day poetry competition organized by Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Aaron R has also had poems featured in books on social justice. Aaron R also has a book Poetically Correct Volume 1 available on Amazon.com and iTunes. Aaron can be reached at aaronRpoems.com. The mission of Quintessential Listening: Poetry is to provide a forum to examine topical events and contemporary issues through the power of poetry. Hosted by Dr. Michael Anthony Ingram, the live format offers poets and spoken word artists opportunities to either showcase their own poetry or the works of others. The show also offers poets the freedom to give voice as well as bear witness to the social, cultural, racial, political, health, global, gender, economic and environmental issues that affect all of our lives.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry - Hiram Larew

Tue, 23 Oct 2018 00:00:00 GMT

Larew's work has appeared most recently in Little Patuxent Review, Contemporary American Voices, FORTH vox poetica, Poetry Super Highway, Poets & Artists, Every Day Poems, Lunaris Review (Nigeria), Amsterdam Quarterly, and The Wild Word. His fourth collection is due out this year from Foothills Publishing House. He’s been nominated for four Pushcarts, is a member of the Shakespeare Folger Library’s poetry board, and organizes several events in Prince George’s County, MD and beyond including Poetry X Hunger and The Poetry Poster Project. He is a global hunger specialist, and lives in UpperMarlboro, MD ... and he’s very, very short. On Facebook at Hiram Larew, Poet. The mission of Quintessential Listening: Poetry is to provide a forum to examine topical events and contemporary issues through the power of poetry. Hosted by Dr. Michael Anthony Ingram, the live format offers poets and spoken word artists opportunities to either showcase their own poetry or the works of others. The show also offers poets the freedom to give voice as well as bear witness to the social, cultural, racial, political, health, global, gender, economic and environmental issues that affect all of our lives. Poems of all different types and genres are welcome.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry - Ann Christine Tabaka

Tue, 16 Oct 2018 00:00:00 GMT

Quintessential Listening: Poetry - Lisa Stice

Tue, 09 Oct 2018 00:00:00 GMT

Lisa Stice is a poet/mother/military spouse, the author of two poetry collections Permanent Change of Station (Middle West Press, 2018) and Uniform (Aldrich Press, 2016), and a Pushcart Prize nominee. She volunteers as a mentor with the Veterans Writing Project, as an associate poetry editor with 1932 Quarterly, and as a contributor for The Military Spouse Book Review. You can learn more about her publications at https://lisastice.wordpress.com/. The mission of Quintessential Listening: Poetry is to provide a forum to examine topical events and contemporary issues through the power of poetry. Hosted by Dr. Michael Anthony Ingram, the live format offers poets and spoken word artists opportunities to either showcase their own poetry or the works of others. The show also offers poets the freedom to give voice as well as bear witness to the social, cultural, racial, political, health, global, gender, economic and environmental issues that affect all of our lives.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry - Claudine Nash

Tue, 02 Oct 2018 00:00:00 GMT

Claudine Nash lives and writes in New York. She obtained a B.A. in English and Psychology from Wesleyan University and later went on to obtain two master’s degrees and a Ph.D. in Psychology from Connecticut College and St. John's University. Heavily influenced by her background in psychology, her poetry frequently delves into such topics as loss, healing and the liberation of releasing the past. Her most recent writings have focused on the power of connecting to our authentic selves and true inner voice. Her collections include her full-length poetry books The Wild Essential (Aldrich Press/Kelsay Books, 2017) and Parts per Trillion (Aldrich Press, 2016) as well as her chapbook The Problem with Loving Ghosts (Finishing Line Press, 2014). She also edited an anthology of writing by people living with mental illness entitled Destigmatized: Voices for Change (Madness Muse Press, 2017), as well as the book In So Many Words: Interviews and Poetry from Today’s Poets (Madness Muse Press, 2016). Claudine’s poetry has earned numerous literary distinctions including Pushcart Prize nominations and prizes from such publications as Eye on Life Magazine, The Song Is..., Thirty West Publishing House, Avalon Literary Review and Lady Chaos Press. Internationally published, her poems have appeared in a wide range of magazines and anthologies including Asimov’s Science Fiction, BlazeVOX, Cloudbank, Haight Ashbury Literary Journal and Dime Show Review among others and have been integrated into various dance, visual and musical art forms.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry - Catfish McDaris

Tue, 25 Sep 2018 00:00:00 GMT

Catfish McDaris’ best readings were in Paris at the Shakespeare and Co. Bookstore and with Jimmy"the ghost of Hendrix"Spencer in NYC on 42nd St. He’s done over 20 chaps in the last 25 years. He’s been in the New York Quarterly, Slipstream, Pearl, Main St. Rag, Café Review, Chiron Review, Zen Tattoo, Wormwood Review, Great Weather For Media, Silver Birch Press, Mas Tequila Review, and Graffiti and been nominated for 15 Pushcarts, Best of Net in 2010 and 2013, he won the Uprising Award in 1999, and won the Flash Fiction Contest judged by the U.S. Poet Laureate in 2009. Also in The Louisiana Review, George Mason Univ.Press, and New Coin from Rhodes Univ. in South Africa. He’s recently been translated into Spanish, Italian, French, Polish, Swedish, Arabic, Mandarin, Bengali, Yoruba, Tagalog, and Esperanto. His 25 years of published material is in the Special Archives Collection at Marquette Univ. in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry - Lynne Viti

Tue, 11 Sep 2018 00:00:00 GMT

Lynne Spigelmire Viti was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland. She is a lecturer emerita in the Writing Program at Wellesley College. A graduate of Mercy High School in Baltimore, she attended the College of Notre Dame of Maryland, and received her B.A.cum laude in English Literature from Barnard College. After teaching high school English for several years in Stamford, Connecticut and Brookline, Massachusetts, she earned her Ph.D. and J.D. from Boston College.Viti has authored numerous academic articles on legal topics, composition theory and, literature and media. Her first chapbook, Baltimore Girls, was published in March, 2017, and her second collection, The Glamorganshire Bible, in 2018 (both from Finishing Line Press). She is also the author of a poetry microchapbook, (Origami Poems Project 2017). Her poetry, nonfiction and fiction has appeared in over a hundred online and print journals and anthologies, including The Wire: Urban Decay and American Television (2009),The Baltimore Sun,Amuse-Bouche, The Paterson Review, The Little Patuxent Review, Drunk Monkeys, Cultured Vultures, Incandescent Mind and Right Hand Pointing. She won Honorable Mentions in the 2015 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Contest, the 2017 Joe Gouveia Poetry Contest,and the 2015 Glimmer Train Short Fiction Contest. She has read her work at Gallery 55 (Natick), MA; Mass. Poetry Festival; Bird-in-Hand /Ivy Bookshop Baltimore, MD; Little Patuxent Review; Book Culture Bookstore, NY, NY; Boston Public Library; Westwood, MA Public Library; Wellfleet, MA Public Library; Ferguson Library, Stamford, CT; Mercy High School, Baltimore, MD; Enoch Pratt Library, Baltimore, MD; Dover, MA Public Library; New England Mobile Book Fair, Newton, MA; Wellesley College; Old Frog Pond Farm Plein Air Poetry, Harvard, MA; Charlestown Retirement Community (Catonsville, MD); Louisburg Cottages, CountyMayo, Ireland. She blogs at stillinschool.wordpress.com .

Quintessential Listening: Poetry - Bill Cushing

Tue, 04 Sep 2018 00:00:00 GMT

Bill Cushing lived in various states, the Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico before moving to California. As an undergrad, he was called the “blue collar” poet by classmates at the University of Central Florida because of his years in the Navy and later as an electrician on oil tankers, fishing boats, and other naval vessels before returning to college at 37. Earning an MFA in writing from Goddard College in Vermont, he now teaches at East Los Angeles and Mt. San Antonio colleges. Bill has been published in various literary journals, magazines, and newspapers, including The San Juan Star and the Florida Times-Union. His short stories have appeared in Borfski Press, Newtown Literary Journal and Sediments. Bill’s poetry has been in numerous journals, both in print and online, including Avocet, Brownstone Review, Glomag, Mayo Review, Penumbra, Poetry Nook, Spectrum, The Song Is. . ., and West Trade Review. He had poems (one a Pushcart Prize nominee) in both volumes of the award-winning Stories of Music. In 2017, Bill was named as one of the Top Ten Poets of L.A., and this year Spectrum Publishing named him as one of the “ten poets to watch” in Los Angeles. When not teaching or writing, Bill facilitates a writing workshop in Eagle Rock, California (part of the 9 Bridges Writing Community). He also performs with a musician in a project called “Notes and Letters,” a project that is available online through both Facebook and youtube. He is now in the pre-publication stages for a full-length volume of poems with Finishing Line Press, scheduled for release in mid-2019. That book is tentatively titled A Former Life

Quintessential Listening: Poetry - A.S. Coomer

Tue, 28 Aug 2018 00:00:00 GMT

A.S. Coomer is a writer and musician. His work has appeared in over fifty literary magazine, journals, & the like. Novels include Rush's Deal, The Fetishists, Shining the Light, & The Devil's Gospel (forthcoming). He runs Lost, Long Gone, Forgotten Records, a "record label" for poetry. He co-edits Cocklebur Press, an independent micro-press for poetry. Five of his original compositions, as recorded live with cellist Sara Gibson, are featured in the Museum of Americana's American Songbook. His poem, I'm not sure how I feel about the sound, won the 2016/17 Thelma Prize, which was judged by Catfish McDaris. He's been nominated for a Pushcart Prize three times. www.ascoomer.com

Quintessential Listening: Poetry - Marianne Sylzk

Tue, 21 Aug 2018 00:00:00 GMT

Marianne Szlyk is a professor of English and Reading at Montgomery College and was a member of the DC Poetry Project. She also edits The Song Is... a blog-zine for poetry and prose inspired by music (especially jazz), and she belongs to the DC Poetry Spot and the DC Poetry Magic Theater. This summer she and her husband started It Takes A Community! Poetry Workshop at Montgomery College Rockville. Her first chapbook, Listening to Electric Cambodia, Looking up at Trees of Heaven, is available online at Kind of a Hurricane Press. Her second chapbook, I Dream of Empathy, is available on Amazon. Her poems have appeared in Scarlet Leaf Review, of/with, bird's thumb, Cactifur, Mad Swirl, Setu, Solidago, Red Bird Chapbook's Weekly Read, and Resurrection of a Sunflower, an anthology of work responding to Vincent Van Gogh's art. Her full-length book, On the Other Side of the Window, is now available from Pski's Porch and Amazon. She invites you to stop by her blog-zine and perhaps even submit some poems: http://thesongis.blogspot.com

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Open Mic Call-in Show

Tue, 14 Aug 2018 00:00:00 GMT

The mission of the Quintessential Listening: Poetry (QL: P) Blogtalk Radio Show is to provide a forum for poets and spoken word artists opportunities to showcase their work or the work of others. Poems of all different types, genres, as well as themes are welcome. The live episode will be beamed to an international audience. If you would like to be a guest on QL: P, please email Dr. Michael Anthony Ingram (host) at maingram@gmx.com or call (202)-540-0327 for more information. The podcast of the show will also air on other streaming networks.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry - Avis D. Matthews

Tue, 24 Jul 2018 00:00:00 GMT

QL:P Special Guest: Avis D. Matthews The constant themes of my life have been family, music, and words. I am the second of four children and part of two pretty large, close-knit families who are several generations deep in the African-American communities of Prince George’s County, Maryland. My early exposure to, and love of, poetry came partly through songs – the hymns I heard in church; the popular songs played on the radio; as well as the collection of jazz, sacred, R&B, and musical theater recordings my parents had in our home. There were always books at home, including old textbooks, the World Book encyclopedia, some African-American biographies, and -- the one that stands out in my memory -- the Book of American Negro Poetry, which was edited by James Weldon Johnson and first published in 1922. I had learned about some of these poets during Negro History Week in school, so the book had an aura of importance to it. I imagined it contained not only the thought of great black writers but also the history that was important to our people. That book also gave me the notion that poetry was a serious thing. I took a poetry class in high school and probably wrote my first poem in college. After college, I began a career in public libraries, and, surrounded by books, book-loving people, and writers, I was motivated to write more often, although still mostly in my head, but also on napkins, receipts, or wherever there was a scrap of paper. Even today, I write more poetry in my head than anything else. Although I've yet to develop the discipline or courage to write and share my poems more regularly and widely, I'm happy to have published a few poems on my blog -- http://write-sing-laugh.blogspot.com. My poems also have been featured on "The Song Is," a poetry blogzine published by poet and teacher Marianne Szylk. Two of my poems have been contest winners on this blog.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry - Jerry Brunoe

Tue, 03 Jul 2018 01:00:00 GMT

The mission of Quintessential Listening: Poetry is to provide a forum to examine topical events and contemporary issues through the power of poetry. The live format offers poets and spoken word artists opportunities to showcase their own poetry and/or the works of others. The program also serves as a safe space for artists, to give voice as well as bear witness to the social, cultural, racial, political, health, global, gender, economic and environmental issues that affect all of our lives. Special Guest: Jerry Brunoe. Bio: Jerry Brunoe, a Wasco, was raised on the Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon. He attended Oregon State University briefly and sporadically. His poetry has appeared in multiple literary magazines. He pretends to know what is doing at Toe Good. Toe Good: www.toegood.com Toe Good publishes artists dedicated to their craft and seeks work from underrepresented artists of all genres. Music by Kevin MacLeod and Lino Rise

Quintessential Listening: Poetry - Dominique Jones

Tue, 12 Jun 2018 01:00:00 GMT

Quintessential Listening Poetry- Luis Fermin

Tue, 22 May 2018 00:00:00 GMT

The mission of Quintessential Listening: Poetry is to provide a forum to examine topical events and contemporary issues through the power of poetry. Hosted by Dr. Michael Anthony Ingram, the live format offers poets and spoken word artists opportunities to showcase their own poetry and/or the works of others, and give voice as well as bear witness to the social, cultural, racial, political, health, global, gender, economic and environmental issues that affect all of our lives. Special guest will be acclaimed poet and activist Luis Fermin. Luis was born in Pensacola, FL, March 25, 1987, to a White-American mother and a Dominican father. They divorced when he was 2 years old. Subsequently, he and his mom moved back to the United States. His creative writing actually started in elementary school, where artistic expression was strongly encouraged. There he remembers writing several short stories (generally about himself and his friends having superpowers and fighting bad guys) and developing a comedic comic book series. In middle school, he came up with a few ideas for sci-fi novels but never got past writing the first couple of paragraphs for any of them. From there on, his creative writing pretty much went dormant. It wasn't until he was around 20 years old that he started writing creatively again, this time with the desire to work towards becoming a professional rapper. Luis’ unique performance style is the culmination of all of his experiences. He is unparalleled in terms of memorization, rhythmic technique, and delivery. In fact, his vocal energy is magnetic. As a spoken word artist, Luis Fermin holds nothing back and instead give everything to his audience. He is an active member of the Guerilla Poetry Insurgency (http://www.onecommonunity.org/causes/dc-guerrilla-poetry-insurgency). Music: Lino Rise, Longzihun and Jessica Yip Kevin Macleod

QLPORYT Proudly Presents Stacy Ardis Dyson: An Encore Poetry Reading

Wed, 17 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Stacy Dyson is a Black woman poet, playwright, and acapella vocalist who explores/illuminates the life/times of the Black woman. She has released six chapbooks, five CDs, and performed/workshopped all over the country. Following her last collections, LOVELY AND SUFFERING and FOLLOW ME ON THIS, she is working on a new collection called BECAUSE THE SUN WOULD NOT MOVE. Based in San Diego, Stacy continues to build her international women's poetry network TESORO, and will be launching two writing and performance workshops titled FIRESCRIBE. Audiogram will be accessible on YouTube 4/22/24 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDuhMdCqUI3cJRKj-Jlgabw

QLPORYT Presents Celebrating Women in Poetry: An Encore Poetry Reading

Sat, 20 Apr 2024 19:00:00 GMT

On Saturday, March 23, 2024, we hosted a special program—a Zoom/YouTube episode entitled "Celebrating Women in Poetry." This profound event was dedicated to honoring Women's History Month through the medium of verse. Through the power of poetry, we invited our audience to immerse themselves in the strength, resilience, and beauty embodied by women's voices. Delve into a rich tapestry of emotions, perspectives, and experiences intricately woven by female poets. Let us come together in appreciation of their remarkable contributions to literature and society. Embark on this poetic journey with us as we pay tribute to the creativity, strength, and unwavering spirit of women through the art of poetry. Featured poets included Naomi Bindman, Mary Louise Kiernan, and Amanda Russell. Audiogram will be accessible on YouTube 4/27/24 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDuhMdCqUI3cJRKj-Jlgabw

QLPORYT Presents Women's Power: Global Poetics

Sat, 13 Apr 2024 14:00:00 GMT

Women, as the creators of global poetry, embody resilience, compassion, and profound insight. Despite facing adversity, they craft verses that reach beyond borders, resonating with shared human experiences. Through their stories, struggles, and successes, women offer diverse perspectives, encouraging us to value diversity, empathy, and poetry's ability to shape our collective awareness. Across the world, their words echo resilience, urging us to listen, learn, and unite in support of women's enduring influence on the global poetry landscape. Featured poets: Phynne~Belle - United States, Pragya Chakraborty - India, Nayma Chamchoun - England, Anna Maria Dall-Olio - Italy, Nona Lea - The United States, Jennifer M. Garnatz - Jamaica, Somdatta Mitra - India and Marianne Teftt - Canada/Sint Maarten. Audiogram will be accessible on YouTube 4/20/24 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDuhMdCqUI3cJRKj-Jlgabw

QLPOR Presents Jake St. John and Jenn Knickerbocker

Thu, 06 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMT

Jake St. John lives in the woods on the edge of the Salmon River. He is the author of several collections of poetry including Ring of Fog (Holy and Intoxicated Publications, 2022), Night Full of Diamonds (Whiskey City Press, 2021), and Lost City Highway (A Jabber Publication, 2019). He is the editor of Elephant and is considered an original member of the New London School of poetry. His poems have appeared in print and online journals around the world. https://www.facebook.com/jake.s.john.5?mibextid=ZbWKwL https://youtube.com/@JakeStJohn Jenn Knickerbocker is a writer, an author, a mother, and a teacher. Her poems can be found in print and digital journals internationally. You can find her on a forest path or sitting fireside during her free time. https://instagram.com/jennknix?igshid=ZDdkNTZiNTM= https://www.facebook.com/jennknix?mibextid=ZbWKwL Book: Lips Leaves Scars https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C1JH4F6S?ref_=cm_sw_r_apan_dp_Z767HVF6N2A9DWQWNMB2

An interview with Rawle James on Quintessential Poetry - March 22, 2023

Fri, 21 Mar 2025 16:11:52 GMT

In Memory of Rawle James

As we share this interview from the archives, we invite you to experience the wisdom and warmth that made Rawle James a quintessential poet whose voice, as one friend simply put, "resounds" even now.

QLPORYT Special Episode featuring Lauren Martin (Pre-Recorded)

Thu, 15 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMT

QLPORYT Presents Two Ladies and a Gentleman: Encore Poetry Reading

Thu, 02 May 2024 00:00:00 GMT

You are invited to relive on audio a captivating poetry evening that took place on March 27, 2024, at 8:00 PM (EST), streaming live on YouTube and Zoom. "A Poetry Lovers Concert Featuring Two Ladies and a Gentleman" was proudly presented by Quintessential Listening Poetry Online Radio and YouTube. The event offered a unique showcase of verse and spoken word, with acclaimed poets Sylvia “Ladi Di'' Beverly, Teresa E. Gallion, and Dr. Michael Anthony Ingram gracing the virtual stage.

Todd Cirillo: Encore Book Interview and Reading

Fri, 19 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Original Air Date: Thursday, March 14 8:00 PM Todd Cirillo was born of bastard lineage. He has many books and misdemeanors. His books include; Sucker’s Paradise, Burning the Evidence, ROXY, Three For the Road, Kisses From A Straight Razor and Disposable Darlings (Roadside Press March 2024). He is co-founder and editor of Six Ft. Swells Press, and his poems have appeared in numerous national and international literary journals, magazines and on cocktail napkins everywhere. Todd lives in New Orleans, Louisiana where he seeks out shiny moments and strange wisdom. He can be found at www.toddcirillo.com. Website https://www.toddcirillo.com Amazon Link https://amazon.com/toddcirillo Social Media https://instagram.com/suckersparadise https://facebook.com/toddcirillo https://youtube.com/toddcirillo

Celaine Charles: Encore Book Interview and Reading

Thu, 18 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Celaine is a multi-genre author living in the Pacific Northwest. She balances her dual life writing poetry and fiction by night and teaching elementary students by day. On the poetry side, her chapbook Colors Collected (stemming from her Channillo-hosted, online poetry series, Colors) launched in 2019 (Palmetto Publishing Group). Her newest full collection, Three Hearts Stitched, is forthcoming in January 2024 (Egret Lake Books). Previous works include: Tupelo Press 30/30 Challenge Project, Dime Show Review, Nine Muses Poetry, Spillwords Press, The Seattle Star, and The Sunlight Press, among others. Celaine was a poetry finalist in the PNWA Literary Contest, July 2017. On the fiction side, her YA Fantasy, Seam Keepers, debuted May 2021 (The Wild Rose Press), and her holiday paranormal novella, Stained Glass Secrets and Star Wishes, released November 2022 (The Wild Rose Press). Both have received awards. Celaine has many writing projects in the fire, craves allergy-free chocolate, and thrives taking walks in her beautiful Washington State forests. Connect with CC via https://linktr.ee/celainecharles. https://twitter.com/celaine_charles https://www.instagram.com/cc_celainecharles/ https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100020278358757 https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B07WYZSQK3?ingress=0&visitId=f19a6faa-08b1-44a6-a1c4-67528d1a8fbc&store_ref=ap_rdr&ref_=ap_rdr

Margaret R. Sáraco - Encore Book Interview and Poetry Reading

Tue, 16 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Original Airdate: Tuesday, February 6 8:00 PM Margaret R. Sáraco is a storyteller writing at the intersection of poetry, fiction, and memoir. Her writing appears in anthologies and literary journals including Paterson Literary Review, Exit 13, The Path Literary Magazine, Book of Matches, Greening the Earth (Penguin Books), Lips, and Kerning: A Space for Words. She is a poetry editor for the Platform Review, has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and twice recognized in the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Contest. Margaret has recorded video poems for Poetry of Protest and Struggle, Writing the Land, and Poets Wear Prada, performs spoken word and leads writing workshops. Margaret also taught middle school students in math and writing for 27 years and recently retired in June 2022. She published her debut poetry collection If There Is No Wind in September 2022, and Even the Dog Was Quiet, thirteen months later in October 2023, both with Human Error Publishing. She lives in Montclair, NJ with her husband Alex, who did the illustrations for her latest book. Amazon.com: Even the Dog Was Quiet: 9781948521185: Sáraco, Margaret R.: Books www.qlporyt.com

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Roberto Carlos Garcia

Fri, 29 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMT

As a result of sound issues, your audio device may need to be turned up to a higher volume. Poet, storyteller, and essayist Roberto Carlos Garcia is a self-described "sancocho [...] of provisions from the Harlem Renaissance, the Spanish Poets of 1929, the Black Arts Movement, the Nuyorican School, and the Modernists." He is founder of the cooperative press Get Fresh Books Publishing and currently serves as a NJ State Council of the Arts Poetry Fellow. His collection Black / Maybe: An Afro Lyric was included in the Library of Congress Afro Latinx Literature Bibliography. He has presented Afro Latinx poetry and poetics at Notre Dame University (2022), at Dartmouth College (2023), and has read for Mahogany L. Brown’s Working Intersections Lincoln Center program. Garcia’s essay collection Traveling Freely is forthcoming in 2024 from Northwestern University Press. Visit his website for more information (see below). He is the author of five books. Four poetry collections: the forthcoming What Can I Tell You: The Selected Poems of Roberto Carlos Garcia (Flowersong Press, 2023), [Elegies] (FlowerSong Press, 2020), black / Maybe: An Afro Lyric (Willow Books, 2018), Melancolía (Cervena Barva Press, 2016), & one essay collection, Traveling Freely, forthcoming in 2024 from Northwestern University Press. Website https://www.robertocarlosgarcia.com.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Features Stephen C. Pollock

Thu, 07 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMT

Stephen C. Pollock is the author of the poetry collection Exits, published by Windtree Press. The book nods to the literary traditions of years past while simultaneously speaking to the present moment. It responds to contemporary anxieties surrounding death and the universal search for meaning in life’s transience. Influenced by Dr. Seuss, Pollock began writing rhymed poems at age nine. In high school, he maintained a poetry journal as part of his sophomore English curriculum, and at Amherst College, he took four rigorous poetry courses. During his final semester at Amherst, in an act of love masquerading as mania, he stopped attending classes, isolated himself from friends, ate and slept reluctantly, and spent five straight weeks writing a metaphysical poem on the theme of subjective vs. objective reality. His professional career was a play in two acts. Trained as a physician, Pollock was recruited to Duke University as Chief of Neuro-Ophthalmology in 1987. His clinical practice consisted of evaluating and caring for patients with complex ocular manifestations of neurological diseases. He also trained ophthalmology residents and fellows, and he published a number of clinical and research papers in the medical literature. Prior to leaving academic medicine, he achieved a rank of Associate Professor with tenure. After seventeen years, Pollock left Duke to become chief executive of CEC (cecvision.com), a nationwide company that provides vision benefits to individuals and their family members. He retired after the company was sold in 2019. Pollock has occasionally dabbled in engineering and technology as well. He wrote U.S. Patent 4,477,158, Lens System for Variable Refraction, and he also designed an instrument that’s used to biopsy inaccessible tumors of the orbit and brain. For more information, please visit, https://exitspoetry.net/

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Dr. Mircea Dan Duta

Sat, 19 Aug 2023 16:00:00 GMT

Poet, film scientist, translator, author of Czech expression (*27.05.1967, Bucharest). Editor/Correspondent: Levure Littéraire (France – USA - Germany), Literomania, FITRALIT, Actualitatea Literară (Romania), Timpul (Moldavia), A Too Powerful Word (Serbia), Alephi (India), Quest (Montenegro), producer & moderator of cultural events in the Czech Republic, Slovak Republic and Romania. Producer & host of the video literary programs International Correspondences and Literary Workshops for Literomania Literary Magazine in Romania (since august 2022), Associate Producer and co-host: Poets of the East Literary Radio/Video Show, produced by Rick Spisak initially for PNN Radio, than for Canary in a Coal Mine TV Society. Awards: The Fertile Brains Literary Festival Award, 2023 (India), The Main Marhoul Award for Poetry for 2021 (Czech Republic), The Panorama Literary Festival Award for 2021 (India), The Morava Banks Literart Festival Award for 2019 (Czech Republic/Slovakia). Books: Landscapes, Flights and Dictations, Tin quotes, inferiority complexes and human rights (2014/2015, Petr Štengl Editions, Prague), Plíz sujčov jor mobajl foun senťu / Pliiz suiciof ior mobail faun senchiu (Next Page Editions, Bucharest, 2020, bilingual Czech-Romanian anthology). Samples from his scientific work (film and literary critic and history): Narrator, Author & God (Charles University Press, Prague, Czech Republic, 2009), Parts of his work were translated and published in the USA, France, United Kingdom, Spain, Poland, Bulgaria, Israel, Serbia, Romania, Spain, India, Egipt, Syria, Korea, Albania. He is also present in prestigious anthologies in the USA, UK, Spain, South-Africa, India, Indonesia, Romania, Moldavia. Translator: Czech/Slovak Romanian; Polish, Bulgarian -> Romanian English, French Romanian Czech English, French.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Dr. Suneet Madan

Sat, 12 Aug 2023 13:30:00 GMT

Dr. Suneet Madan personifies creative diversity. Connecting life dots with insatiable curiosity is how she defines herself and the same is reflected in her creations. A seasoned user experience professional, Suneet has Doctorate degree from CEPT University, Ahmedabad, Masters in Design (Visual Communication) from IIT Bombay, and Masters in Mass Communication from Kurukshetra University. Having lived across the length and breadth of India, her views and visualizations on societal and culturally relevant aspects find a broader perspective. Her art works and creative writing, while questioning the norms of the world, celebrate the essence of life, using myriad media in intriguing and unusual ways. While conveying hard- hitting deeper meanings, her works tantalize the audience on different sensory levels. Dr. Madan's poems and short stories have been widely anthologized. Her poems have also been published in the Indian Poetry Review and on Asian Literary Society’s blog. Suneet has been an artistic prodigy, and recipient of a large number of awards on international levels, in creative expressions through painting and writing. The most prominent and recent awards have been the Master of Creative Impulse - International Achievement Award in World Literature and Creative Arts during the World Poetry Conference-II, and recognition certificate from the International Watercolor Society as the top two winners of the IWS theme Song Contest used verses from her poem, that was selected in the IWS Poetry Contest, in their lyrics. Book https://www.amazon.com/Poinsettia-Suneet-Madan/dp/9357044175/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1KH14C2896GB4&keywords=suneet+madan&qid=1691100009&s=books&sprefix=suneet+madan%2Cstripbooks%2C103&sr=1-1

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents John Yamrus

Wed, 02 Aug 2023 00:00:00 GMT

Since 1970, John Yamrus has published 35 books (29 volumes of poetry, 2 rather awful novels, 3 "memoirs" and a children's book). He has also had more than 3,000 poems published in magazines and anthologies and has recently had a second book of poetry published in Europe, translated by Fadil Bajraj, who is best known for his books of translations of Ezra Pound, Ginsberg, Bukowski, John Fante and many more. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BRCC2LTW/ref=sr_1_18?crid=1FGKZI6WL26W8&keywords=john+yamrus&qid=1672409645&sprefix=john+yamrus%2Caps%2C81&sr=8-18

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Rick Spisak

Fri, 28 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMT

Richard W. Spisak jr. He began his work as a professional artist in the studio of Mel Tanner of Lumonics, studying performance Light art. Then Richard worked with the Lumist Kenvin Lyman of Dazzleland Studios, who had earned the first Doctorate of Lumia granted by the Sorbonne. Then Richard earned a Second Class Radio Engineering License and studied Digital Electronics. He's performed as a LIGHT ARTIST in Planetariums and toured as a LASER ARTIST in the Americas. Richard has been a Writer/Producer/Director in Live theatre, TV, RADIO, and the WEB. His political essays and ANTI-WAR essays have been published in volumes for three decades. He has published two short story collections the first, "Two Small Windows, in a Pair of Mirror Doors", a collection of stories about Aliens, Ashrams, and Gurus, and his second collection, including both fiction and non-fiction, is entitled “Between the Silences". It has been lauded from Asia to the Americas. His new poetry collection is scheduled to be published this summer, is entitled “STONE POETRY,” and will be widely distributed. In 2022 Richard published the poetry he has been performing for the last decade in a volume entitled "7370 Allen Drive". Since 2022 Richard has been producing an International Literary webcast entitled “POETS of the East”. It has just wrapped up its fifth season, "Poets of the East," featuring poets from Asia, Europe, and the Americas. Now living in the mountains of Tennessee rick@averyvoice.com

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Hazel-Ann Lynch

Tue, 25 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMT

Hazel-Ann Lynch is an up and coming serial writer and networker. Born in Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies. Hazel transports herself to numerous other locations through her vivid imagination and vicariously through her over 75 pen-pals around the world. Hazel-Ann has an upper-cut sense of humor and desires to bring laughter to the hearts of her readers. This aim has been successfully and most potentially accomplished within the pages of her debut book Señor Fluffy:A Cat's Tale, and in the main character himself Señor Fluffy. And her soon-to-be release Not So Charming After All, a modern day spin on a fairytale. As Hazel-Ann's writing and influence gains momentum, she can be seen featured on various media platforms locally and around the world. https://instagram.com/lynchhazelann https://www.facebook.com/hazel.lynch.73 https://youtube.com/...@chatterboxchronicles9711

QLPOR Presents Chyrel J. Jackson and Lyris D. Wallace

Tue, 13 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMT

Chyrel J. Jackson & Lyris D. Wallace are Literary visionaries. Reared in the South Suburbs outside Chicago. African American Literature influenced their writing and is one of their favorite genres. Jackson & Wallace write in the spirit of their past great Literary ancestors. 2021 & 2023 garnered Chyrel & Lyris their very first literary nominations, Pushcart Nominee-Poem Love Unspoken, Published in Heart Beats Anthology & No Justice for Breonna Social Justice Inks Anthology Pushcart Nominee 2023. The sisters published Mirrored Images and Different Sides of the Same Coin. This edgy writing duo appears in over 10 published poetry Anthologies. You will find them always writing. Creating written legacies one book at a time. Jackson & Wallace are writer's that have found their poetic voice. Books Different Sides of the Same Coin: A Collection of Poems - https://a.co/d/fCfkyiH Mirrored Images - https://a.co/d/4VlSww8

QLPOR Presents Manatita, a.k.a The Lantern Carrier

Sun, 11 Jun 2023 17:00:00 GMT

Manatita, a.k.a The Lantern Carrier, is a published author and poet, who has been performing poetry for 22 years. Equally at home with performance pieces, Lantern Carrier has won a Hammer and Tongue (H&T) Slam, featured at BYOB, Mind Over Matter, Chocolate Poetry, Word Play and many other venues. He has been runner-up in Slams, as well as making the finals in the H&T National Final (Brighton). Lantern Carrier has read at the famous Nuyorican Cafe and in Nairobi, Kenya. He’s a Creative Writer, who also writes short stories, essays, and Flash Fiction. He is the Author of four books, including Maxims for our Children: A look at the Teachings of Jesus, the Christ, and Blossoms of The Heart. Lantern Carrier is a poet who tries to serve, to bring Light, to elevate ...enlighten the understanding. He endeavours to reach the Heart; to bring wisdom to his pieces and is a specialist in nature imagery, music, light, colour and dance in their kaleidoscope of different forms. All his poetry addresses the varying moods of the soul and the human condition, either in mystical harmony or in separation from its Source. Salaam! My Guru, Sri Chinmoy: Life and Teachings: Manatita: 9789937623049: Amazon.com: Books Manatita, The Lantern Carrier: An Esoteric Journey to Spiritual Philosophy: Arvanitis, Ioannis: 9781686095849: Amazon.com: Books Manatita, the Lantern Carrier - YouTube The Lantern Carrier, a.k.a. Manatita Hutchinson, features at Spoken World Online, 8 February, 2022 - YouTube

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Richard Harries

Sat, 10 Jun 2023 18:00:00 GMT

Richard Harries is a performance poet, raconteur and storyteller from Yorkshire in the UK. He has been performing at festivals, charity events and community events for around 12 years. He has headlined at events both in person and on Zoom. He has two books published by Stairwell Books of York. AWAKENING (2021 their best seller of the year) and ICONIC TATTOO (2022). He was part of a team that put together the play HAUNT which was Saboteur Nominated. https://www.stairwellbooks.co.uk/product/awakening/ https://www.amazon.com/Iconic-Tattoo-Richard-Harries/dp/1913432564 https://www.facebook.com/richard.harries.94 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRbHZ74zcXKIwsEveVqYUPA

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Featuring Nayma Chamchoun

Sat, 03 Jun 2023 18:00:00 GMT

QLPOR Features Composer-Performer Martin Graff

Sun, 28 May 2023 00:00:00 GMT

Martin Graff is an artist, author, musician, and extreme-chin-beard enthusiast in Arlington, VA who crafts poetic vignettes with matching art on every topic from the stigma of liking scrapple to the meaning of life in a series called The Face Zone: Surreal Daydreams to Trip Your Imagination... Marty’s live spoken-word show adds original piano compositions from his album Trips for Piano to heighten the experience. His affecting commentary, original humor, whimsical artwork, and absorbing piano offer a uniquely engaging respite that cuts through the noise of our information-age lives with concise, essential truths certain to entertain as they set mind in motion. For a decade, Marty's act has been featured at venues across the region, including Capital Fringe Festival, Spit Dat DC's residency at The Woolly Mammoth Theatre, and multiple Busboys & Poets locations. He has been reviewed and interviewed in over thirty print and online publications, and has made radio and TV appearances in support of his three books and piano album, for which he was nominated Best Classical Artist in the 2022 DC Wammie Awards. When not performing, Marty teaches English as a Second Language, which he started in China and has continued doing throughout the Mid-Atlantic U.S., earning a 2015 Teacher of the Year nomination in Frederick, Maryland.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio - International Women's Day 2023

Thu, 09 Mar 2023 01:00:00 GMT

March 8 is International Women's Day, a day to celebrate the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. The day also brings attention to the women's rights movement, gender equality, reproductive rights, and violence and abuse against women. In honor of the occasion, Quntessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio presents four renowned Canadian women poets sharing their poetry. These poets are Clara Blackwood, Brenda Clews, Jennifer Hosein, and Archna Sahni. Hope you enjoy! The bios of these poets can be found at: https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/67559328/international-womens-day-2023

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Martina Reisz Newberry

Thu, 10 Nov 2022 01:00:00 GMT

Martina Reisz Newberry is the author of 7 books of poetry. Her most recent book is Glyphs, available now from Deerbrook Editions. She is also the author of Blues for French Roast with Chicory, available from Deerbrook Editions, the author of Never Completely Awake ( from Deerbrook Editions), Where It Goes (Deerbrook Editions), Learning by Rote (Deerbrook Editions), Running Like a Woman with Her Hair on Fire (Red Hen Press), and Take the Long Way Home (Unsolicited Press). Newberry has been included in The Cenacle, Cog, Blue Nib, Braided Way, Roanoak Review, THAT Literary Review, Mortar Magazine, and many other literary magazines in the U.S. and abroad. Her work is included in the anthologies Marin Poetry Center Anthology, Moontide Press Horror Anthology, A Decade of Sundays: L.A.'s Second Sunday Poetry Series-The First Ten Years, and many others. She has been awarded residencies at Yaddo Colony for the Arts, Djerassi Colony for the Arts, and Anderson Center for Disciplinary Arts. Passionate in her love for Los Angeles, Martina currently lives there with her husband, Brian, a Media Creative. Glyphs - Deerbrook Editions Amazon.com: Glyphs: 9781736847763: Reisz Newberry, Martina: Books

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Ellen Thea - Rebroadcast

Sat, 30 Apr 2022 20:00:00 GMT

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Deepika Singh

Sat, 23 Apr 2022 15:00:00 GMT

Deepika Singh hails from Margherita-Assam,India. Her qualifications are Bachelor in English, Bachelor in Education and Master in Mass Communication and Journalism. A teacher by profession.She discovered the passion for writing on one of those days when everything seemed to go wrong. In the complex puzzle that life is, words came as a breath of fresh air and rescued her. She is a budding poetess.She only writes in English,free verse poems. Her poetries has appeared in several journals, magazines, books and on different websites. She is also adviser of the International Edition of Chinese Literature (in charge of Hubei Federation of literary and art circle).Throughout her writing journey her work delved into a variety of topics, including family, heartache, nature and the mysteries of life.She is also the first female from the Eastern part of India to make State and World Record in Rangoli.As she writes for common people so that they can easily understand thus she avoid jargons most of the time.She writes in a simple manner which is easy to understand. There is no book to her credit till now as she believes that she needs to burnish a lot.Through poetry she wants to touch people’s souls. Contact: dipikamajm@gmail.com

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Scott Norman Rosenthal

Thu, 21 Apr 2022 21:00:00 GMT

NATIONAL POETRY MONTH A Reading and Conversation with Scott Norman Rosenthal. To find out more information about Mr. Rosenthal, please visit _Scott Norman Rosenthal-1.pdf -- 57k (keepandshare.com The mission of Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio is to provide a live format for emerging, mid-career, and established poets to showcase their work. Whether traditional poetry or spoken word, the show offers an online vehicle for artists to engage in critical dialogue and discussion about poetry. If you would like to be a guest on QL: POR, please contact the host Dr. Michael Anthony Ingram at maingram@gmx.com.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents James Crews

Fri, 15 Apr 2022 00:00:00 GMT

James Crews is the author of 4 prize-winning collections of poetry. He is also the editor of the best-selling poetry anthology, HOW TO LOVE THE WORLD. His new collection, THE PATH TO KINDNESS offers more than 100 deeply felt and relatable poems by international and well-known writers including Joy Harjo (the current U.S. Poet Laureate), Julia Alvarez, Marie Howe, Ellen Bass, Naomi Shihab Nye, Alberto Ríos, Ross Gay, and Ada Limón, as well as new and emerging voices. Featured Black writers include January Gill O'Neil, Tracy K. Smith, and Cornelius Eady. Native American writers include Kimberly Blaeser and Linda Hogan.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Rojé Augustin

Thu, 24 Feb 2022 01:00:00 GMT

Encore Presentation Rojé Augustin is a native New Yorker who grew up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Her first novel, The Unraveling of Bebe Jones, won the 2013 National Indie Excellence Award in African American fiction. She wrote the novel while a stay-at-home-mom in London and Sydney. In 2013 Rojé’s script The Weekly was selected for the Australian Writer’s Guild prestigious Pathways Program. In May 2020 Rojé published her debut poetry collection, Out of No Way, Madam C.J. Walker and A’Lelia Walker, A Poetic Drama, which tells the story of Madam Walker’s phenomenal life story. Rojé continues to work as a screenwriter, journalist, and producer. She is a dual national currently living in Sydney with her husband and two daughters. When she's not working or spending time with family and friends, Rojé loves to rollerblade through the park while listening to her favorite tunes.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Gad Kaynar-Kissinger

Tue, 23 Nov 2021 01:00:00 GMT

Gad Kaynar-Kissinger is a Professor at the Theatre Arts Department, Tel Aviv University, dramaturg, editor, actor, director and drama translator. He has published eight poetry volumes in Hebrew. His poems were translated into Spanish, Portuguese, Greek and Arabic. He bears the ASI Poetry Award from the General Association of Writers in Israel. His English translations were published by Pidgeonholes, Allpoetry, Anomaly Literary Journal, Atlas & Alice, The Bitter Oleander, Lady Blue Literary Arts Journal, Bombay Review, Reality Break Press, LOULIT, Indolent Books, and others. His book Rescue Mission offers a web of delicate, paradoxical, surprising and explosive imagery coupled with references to western culture, ancient mythologies, the scriptures, and the arts. Publication Date: September 20, 2021 Publisher: Atmosphere Press List Price: $15.99 Trade Paperback ISBN13: 978-1637528426 Genre: Poetry, Translation Language: English Page Count: 96

QLPOR Salutes the Poet and the Illustrator

Tue, 12 Oct 2021 00:00:00 GMT

Abi Taylor is an Artist/Illustrator living and working in North Vancouver BC. She takes inspiration from the places around her and inside her mind. After finishing her degree of Visual Arts at Emily Carr University she would like to make drawings for children's books. Alden Wallace Mackay has been published in numerous literary magazines across the continent. He hopes one day this might pay the bills.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Debbie Monteggia

Fri, 13 Aug 2021 00:00:00 GMT

Debbie Monteggia lives in Mesa, AZ with her husband and two dogs. She works in the design industry as an interior designer. She enjoys bicycling, walking and playing pickleball. Debbie is very dedicated to giving back and will allocate a percentage of her book sales to a basic needs charity. Debbie also sells individual poems from the book that can be overlaid over a favorite framed picture of a friend or family member. You can view and purchase these poems, and discover more about Debbie, at TearsofChangePoetry.com.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Robert Garnham

Sun, 27 Jun 2021 16:00:00 GMT

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Propaganda

Fri, 11 Jun 2021 00:00:00 GMT

He goes by the name "Propaganda." He's an activist, poet, educator and the son of a Black Panther. In his debut collection of essays and poetry - "TERRAFORM: Building a Better World" - this trailblazing rapper and poet puts his teachings into his prose - conjuring verses and visions for creating a new and more equitable world. In this thoughtful book, Propaganda looks at the ways in which our world is broken. Using the metaphor of terraforming - creating a livable world out of an inhospitable one - he shows how we can begin to reshape our homes, friendships, communities, and politics.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Kenneth C. Steven

Thu, 15 Apr 2021 00:00:00 GMT

Kenneth C. Steven grew up in Highland Perthshire in the heart of Scotland, and now lives in Argyll on the country’s west coast; it’s these landscapes that have inspired the lion’s share of both his poetry and prose. He is best-known as a poet. Fourteen of his collections have been published over the years, and individual poems have appeared in top literary journals across the globe. Much of his poetry is inspired by the wildscape of his native Highland Scotland; much has resulted from his love of the Celtic Christian story whose deepest roots are for him found in the island of Iona off Scotland’s west coast. He and his partner Kristina and lead Celtic Christian retreats each October on the island of Iona seeking to offer a gentle path through the Celtic Christian story. More about them can be found on the website of the Argyll Hotel on Iona.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Kenneth C. Steven

Sun, 11 Apr 2021 18:00:00 GMT

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Katerina Canyon

Sat, 27 Mar 2021 20:00:00 GMT

Katarina Canyon is a BIPOC, Award Winning Poet, Best Selling Author, civil rights activist, essayist, and poet. She grew up in Los Angeles and much of her writing reflects that experience.Her first book of poetry, Changing the Lines, was released in August 2017. This work is a conversation between mother and daughter as they examine what it means to operate within the world as black women. Katerina Canyon is a 2020 and 2019 Pushcart Prize Nominee. Her stories have been published in The New York Times,The Huffington Post, and Folks. Her poetry has been published in CatheXis Northwest,The Esthetic Apostle, Into the Void, Black Napkin, and Waxing & Waning. From 2000 to 2003, she served as the Poet Laureate of Sunland-Tujunga. During that time, she started a poetry festival and ran several poetry readings. She has a B.A. in English, International Studies and Creative Writing from Saint Louis University and a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School at Tufts University. Katerina moved to Seattle three years ago. She is currently running a civil rights campaign against police brutality. More information can be found at www.vdaycampaign.org. Katerina's latest book, Surviving Home, will be released in October 2021 published by Kelsay Books.Readers can connect with Katerina on Instagram, Twitter, Goodreads, and Facebook.To learn more, go to https://www.poetickat.com/To request a review copy of Surviving Home or an interview with Katerina Canyon, please contact Kelsey at Book Publicity Services at (805) 807-9027 or Kelsey@BookPublicityServices.com

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Gretchen Primack

Sat, 27 Mar 2021 18:00:00 GMT

Gretchen Primack is a poet, educator, and indie bookseller living in New York's Hudson Valley. She has taught and/or administrated prison education programs since 2006. Primack has authored three poetry collections: Kind (Lantern Publishing); Visiting Days (Willow Books), which imagines a maximum-security men's NYS prison like the ones where she's taught; and Doris' Red Spaces (Mayapple Press), a more personal collection. Primack also co-authored The Lucky Ones: My Passionate Fight for Farm Animals with Jenny Brown (Penguin Avery). Primack’s poetry publication credits include The Paris Review, Prairie Schooner, Ploughshares, FIELD, Poet Lore, The Massachusetts Review, The Antioch Review, New Orleans Review, Rhino, Tampa Review, Best New Poets, and many other journals and anthologies.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Amy Jean

Sat, 06 Mar 2021 18:00:00 GMT

Amy Jean is a dreamer, a poet, a mother, and a writer with compelling stories to share. Her exploratory books peel back the layers of social justice, spiritual awakening, and her quest for an authentic life. As an entrepreneur, Amy spent several years growing a cleaning company in North Carolina. She recently started Jean Publications, LLC, and seeks to share forward-thinking, unique works of art that inspire and propel humanity towards universal liberation. More specifically, creative writing and artistic masterpieces offering bold new thoughts leading society to a brighter future where all lives matter. If you would like to learn more about Amy and her books, please visit www.amy jean.live.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Jessica Care Moore

Thu, 17 Dec 2020 01:00:00 GMT

jessica Care moore is the founder and CEO of Moore Black Press, executive producer of Black WOMEN Rock!, and founder of the literacy-driven, Jess Care Moore Foundation. An internationally renowned poet, playwright, performance artist, and producer, she is the 2019 and 2017 Knight Arts Award Winner, 2016 Kresge Arts Fellow, NAACP Great Expectations Awardee, and an Alain Locke Award recipient from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Moore is the author of The Words Don’t Fit in My Mouth, The Alphabet Verses the Ghetto, Sunlight Through Bullet Holes, and the critically acclaimed Techno Choreopoem, Salt City. Her work has been published in numerous literary collections and she has performed on stages all over the world, including The Apollo Theater, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and the London Institute for Contemporary Arts. jessica lives and writes in an historic Detroit neighborhood with her son King Thomas.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Jessica Care Moore

Mon, 23 Nov 2020 00:00:00 GMT

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Jessica Care Moore

Sun, 22 Nov 2020 00:00:00 GMT

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Don Beukes

Sat, 07 Nov 2020 18:00:00 GMT

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Phyllis Klein

Thu, 18 Jun 2020 06:30:00 GMT

Phyllis Klein works as a psychotherapist specializing in trauma and a Certified Poetry Therapist who has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for over 30 years. Her work has appeared or will appear in Crosswinds Poetry Journal, Chiron Review, Portside, Sweet—a Literary Confection, 3Elements, Poetry Hotel, I-70 and the Minnesota Review among others. She was a finalist in the Sweet Poetry Contest (2017), the Carolyn Forché Humanitarian Poetry Contest (2019), and The Fischer Prize, (2019) and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize (2018). Her book, The Full Moon Herald from Grayson Books is available now. She sees writing as an artistic dialogue between author and readers—an intimate relationship-building process that fosters healing on many levels. Writing about the news is her way of taking action to counter feelings of overwhelm and loss. Magic Forest Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Rebroadcast Austin Davis

Thu, 16 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMT

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Proudly Presents Miss Kiane

Thu, 26 Mar 2020 03:00:00 GMT

Author, performer, facilitator and entrepreneur, Dinahsta Thomas, also known as Miss Kiane, loves all things artsy. A native of Queens, NY Miss Kiane was born to an African American mother and a West African father. Consequently, Miss Kiane enjoys the benefits of a diverse and rich cultural background. Much of which shows up in her creative writing, performances and presentations. As a performer, Miss Kiane has shared her poetry in several venues including Busboys and Poets, Alice’s Jazz and Cultural Center, Storytellers, The Synergy Center and several faith-based settings. She is the author/producer of two chapbooks; Think on These Things and Syncopated Hearts, one CD project, Permanent Impression: Poetries & Melodies and several individually published poems. Currently, Miss Kiane enjoys hosting open mic night on the third Tuesday at the Anacostia Busboys and Poets.Miss Kiane’s love for creative expression expands to her teaching and training sessions. Miss Kiane has taught elementary, high school and adult students during which her presentations are always dynamic, engaging and thought-provoking. Miss Kiane is the owner of Kiane Ink Healing in the Pen, LLC, a creative arts company that uses poetry and creative expression as a platform for hope, healing, and social change. In addition to spoken word performances, writing workshops and charitable community events, Miss Kiane has started a non-profit called The Inkwell which offer therapeutic writing programs to youth and adults dealing with loss, trauma and emotional issues. In her own words, “Poetry is my friend, my catharsis...my gift to the world.”

QL: P Celebrates World Poetry Day with James Morgan Jones

Sat, 21 Mar 2020 19:00:00 GMT

James Morgan-Jones was born and brought up on the Essex/London borders. His mother was Welsh and his father from the East End. He trained as a professional actor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and worked for several years in the theatre. After a serious accident he retrained as a feline behaviourist and now lives in West Wales. He began writing seriously after gaining an MA with Distinction from Trinity Saint David University inCarmarthen. He then embarked on The Glasswater Quintet, a series of supernatural/psychological novels, linked by character and place but set in different decades, from the 1940s onwards. The first book in the series, On the Edge of Wild Water, was published by Wordcatcher in the summer of 2017. This was followed by the second in the quintet, The Glass Citadel, later that year, as well as a short story collection, The Wheel and Other Stories. The third novel, The Stone Forest, was published in November 2018. The fourth in the series, Eye of the Rushes, is due for release in the spring of 2020. In November of this year James’s first collection of poetry, Living Places, Passing Lives, was published by Wordcatcher. http://jamesmorganjones.co.uk

World Poetry Day 2020

Sat, 21 Mar 2020 17:00:00 GMT

World Poetry Day was adopted as 21 March by UNESCO in 1999. It is an invitation to reflect on the power of language and the full development of each person’s creative abilities. It also supports linguistic diversity through poetic expression and offers endangered languages the opportunity to be heard within their communities (https://globaldimension.org.uk/). Over the years, it has become the largest literary celebration in the world with schools, publishers, libraries, booksellers, and poets celebrating poetry’s vital place in our culture. This year's onbservance will feature the following celebrated poets: Indran Amirnayathagam, Christine de Luca, Jaime Manrique, Sophia Naz and Mervyn Taylor. (see biographical sketches (World Poetry Day 2020.docx). The mission of Quintessential Liste ning: Poetry Online Radio is to provide a live format for emerging, mid-career and established poets to showcase their work. Whether traditional poetry or spoken word, the show offers an online vehicle for artists to engage in critical dialogue and discussion about poetry. If you would like to be a guest on QL: P, please contact me at maingram@gmx.com.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Presents Philip John - Searching for Seahorses

Thu, 20 Feb 2020 01:00:00 GMT

Philip John is a Welsh poet from the Rhondda Valleys, Wales. Upon graduating from the University of South Wales in 2014, he moved across the border to Bristol, England to work within government procurement alongside serving and ex-military personnel. He secured a publishing deal with Wordcatcher Publishing and had his first book of poetry 'Home Truths' published in November 2018 which explores the human condition, human history, nature, and more specifically our treatment of the planet. Within the book, there are underlying environmental themes and a cry for change. Philip is now launching his second poetry book 'Searching for Seahorses' posing further questions about the future we are handing over to the next generation, along with some heart-warming poems about love, happiness, redemption, and the journey of life. Philip examines our relationship with nature and each other, and draws from both his upbringing in the post-mining valleys of South Wales, his move to the city and further travels. Many of the poems grapple with the existential questions about searching for purpose, feeling lost in time, and finding a place in this modern world. As well as publishing his second poetry book, Philip has featured several times on BBC Radio performing readings of his poetry. He also conducted a book signing at Cardiff Central Library in the Welsh capital where he performed a variety of his work.You can find Philip's books on Amazon, Wordcatcher Publishing, and all other good booksellers in both paperback and e-book format. Philip is currently working on a third collection of poetry in which he intends to explore the essence of youth and loss of innocence from range of perspectives. He is also writing a memoir-style novella and to find out more you can connect with him on his Facebook and Instragram pages by searching for @philipjohnpoetry.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Presents - From the Archives - Pearl Brown

Thu, 19 Dec 2019 01:00:00 GMT

Rebroadcast - Women's History Month 2019 Writer's Biography Pearl Brown holds a Bachelors of Science degree in Chemistry, She is a Montessori Certified Middle and High School Teacher. She teaches Math and Science at the Oneness Family School (from 2014 till the present) in Chevy Chase, Maryland. I first began writing at the young age of 7 or 8. Writing was a way of expressing my love of reading. When I wrote the words came to me effortlessly. I wanted to write a story that reflected the great pleasure that I had when I read stories. I wrote a book about a young girl and her dog surviving a hurricane. I wrote the story, drew the illustrations, designed the book cover and neatly stapled the pages to fit into a book form. The name of the book was, “A Girl, Her Dog, and the Hurricane.” I even read it to my first - grade class. My next bout of writing occurred during my teenage years. My writing reflected the annoyance of my interfering and confused parents’ as they attempted to parent their rebellious daughter. I also wrote of puppy love and the devastation of my first break-up. Then I got married, had children and began the process of pouring my life and love into their hearts. It was during this time that I began to write again. My “Eros” poems reflected my ownership of the joy I found in my intimate relationships. As my sons got older, I wrote, “A Mother’s Reflection: Aset of poems dedicated to the growth/challenges I had in the relationships with my sons.” As life got busier and busier, I stopped writing and put away my poetry. Last year, on a challenge, to redirect my life so that it reflected my first joy, I dusted off and unearthed my poems and for the first time, I began to read them to my friends and on the stage of Bossa. I love the energy and the joy that reading my poetry gives me. I plan to continue writing and speaking my work.

From the Archives - Quintessential Listening: Poetry Presents Yvonne Brewer

Thu, 05 Dec 2019 01:00:00 GMT

The Episode is Prerecorded Yvonne Brewer is originally from County Offaly, Ireland and lives in Cork, Ireland. She has had poetry published since 2014 with Women's Spiritual Poetry, including in their fourth anthology “Goddess: When She Rules: Expressions of Contemporary Women” (Dec 2017) Motherhood has taken her down a very creative path and her writing is greatly influenced by her children, her dreams, nature and fairies. In 2013 Yvonne self published an e-book called “Breathe and Bloom.Soul Mother Meditations”, 10 pregnancy meditations that she was inspired to write during her second pregnancy. She also has had poetry published with the Blue Nib and her poetry has been read on several audio poetry radio shows of American poet Tamara Miles “Where the Light Most Falls” broadcast by SpiritPlantsRadio.com Prior to Motherhood , Yvonne studied in University College Cork graduating in 1994 with a Degree in Social Science and in 1996 with a Masters in Social Science (Youth and Community Work) Her career path includes working in jobs such as a Lecturer in Adult Education, supporting communities as a community development worker and after school services for children. Her most fulfilling career to date has been as a full time Mother to her two sons. Her first poetry book released in October 2018 is available to buy in paperback or e-book on Amazon. “Twigs” by Yvonne Brewer is a collection of poems based on the simple but extraordinary mindful moments of everyday life combining motherhood with nature and reflecting spiritual themes that take the reader on a journey to the soul. Yvonne is currently working on her second poetry collection “The Story Stones and Wishing Bones” which is a reflection of the sorrow and losses of Ireland’s past. All Music by Longzijun

The QL_P Reading Series Presents - Alatishe Kolawole

Thu, 07 Nov 2019 01:00:00 GMT

This Episode is Prerecorded Alatishe Kolawole wishes to embody integrity. His dream and his vision are to become a positive example for many young people, all over the world. Faith - an invisible power - and the will to grow humanly even when times are hard and difficult guide and inspire his work. The poet has the certainty that the right wins over iniquity. He has faith that the sun will rise again, life will go on and things will improve in some way. Somehow, even when it seems impossible. His poetry is aimed primarily at boys and girls all over the world. His verses have been published in the Punch Papers (Arts & Culture), Wildfire Publications Magazine (United States), The Poet's Attic World Anthology (United States), Genoa Poetry, (Italy) and other literary magazines. Alatishe travels through the stages of life trying to anticipate the future. His poetry collection Welcome to the Poets Residence and We Need a Road on this Broken Heart are scheduled for 2020 "Immerse your feet in this river of hope" by Alatishe opens the new series by Lavinia.

The Ql_P Reading Series Presents - Alatishe Kolawole

Sun, 20 Oct 2019 19:30:00 GMT

Alatishe Kolawole wishes to embody integrity.His dream and his vision are to become a positive example for many young people, all over the world. Faith - an invisible power - andthe will to grow humanly even when times arehard and difficult guide and inspire his work. The poet has the certainty that the right wins over iniquity. He has faith that the sun will rise again, life will go on and things will improve in some way. Somehow, even when itseems impossible. His poetry is aimed primarily at boys and girls all over the world. His verses have been published in the Punch Papers (Arts & Culture), Wildfire Publications Magazine (United States), The Poet's Attic World Anthology (United States), Genoa Poetry, (Italy) and other literary magazines. Alatishe travels through the stages of life trying to anticipate the future. His poetry collection Welcome to the Poets Residence and We Need a Road on this Broken Heart is scheduled for 2020 "Immerse your feet in this river of hope" by Alatishe opens the new series by Lavinia.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Presents - Yvonne Brewer (Prerecorded)

Tue, 04 Jun 2019 00:00:00 GMT

Quintessential Listening: Poetry - Dominique Jones - Rebroadcast

Tue, 14 May 2019 00:00:00 GMT

Dominique Jones is renaissance artist from Rochester, MN who avidly performs in theatre, poetry, dance, and music. He has been writing poetry for about ten years and in that time has won two local poetry slams and was published in an anthology in 2009. He also has had the opportunity to share his poems of growth, resilience, and perspective with audiences of both youth and adults alike. First broadcast on 6/11/2018. The primary mission of Quintessential Listening: Poetry is to provide a live format for poets to showcase their work. Whether traditional poetry or spoken word, the show offers an online vehicle for artists to engage in critical dialogue and discussion about poetry. T Music by Kevin MacLeod, Lino Rise, Longzihun and Jessica Yip

Quintessential Listening: Poetry - Jerry Brunoe Rebroadcast

Tue, 04 Dec 2018 01:00:00 GMT

Bio: Jerry Brunoe, a Wasco, was raised on the Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon. He briefly and sporadically attended Oregon State University. His poetry has appeared in multiple literary magazines. He pretends to know what he is doing at Toe Good. Toe Good: www.toegood.com Toe Good publishes artists dedicated to their craft and seeks work from underrepresented artists of all genres. Music by Kevin MacLeod and Lino Rise The mission of Quintessential Listening: Poetry is to provide a forum to examine topical events and contemporary issues through the power of poetry. Hosted by Dr. Michael Anthony Ingram, the live format offers poets and spoken word artists opportunities to either showcase their own poetry or the works of others. The show also offers poets the freedom to give voice as well as bear witness to the social, cultural, racial, political, health, global, gender, economic and environmental issues that affect all of our lives.

Quintessential Listening: Poetry - Claudine Nash Rebroadcast

Tue, 30 Oct 2018 00:00:00 GMT

Quintessential Listening: Poetry - Luis Fermin Rebroadcast

Tue, 18 Sep 2018 00:00:00 GMT

Luis Fermin was born in Pensacola, FL, March 25, 1987, to a White-American mother and a Dominican father. They divorced when he was 2 years old. Subsequently, he and his mom moved back to the United States. His creative writing actually started in elementary school, where artistic expression was strongly encouraged. There he remembers writing several short stories (generally about himself and his friends having superpowers and fighting bad guys) and developing a comedic comic book series. In middle school, he came up with a few ideas for sci-fi novels but never got past writing the first couple of paragraphs for any of them. From there on, his creative writing pretty much went dormant. It wasn't until he was around 20 years old that he started writing creatively again, this time with the desire to work towards becoming a professional rapper. Luis’ unique performance style is the culmination of all of his experiences. He is unparalleled in terms of memorization, rhythmic technique, and delivery. In fact, his vocal energy is magnetic. As a spoken word artist, Luis Fermin holds nothing back and instead give everything to his audience. He is an active member of the Guerilla Poetry Insurgency (http://www.onecommonunity.org/causes/dc-guerrilla-poetry-insurgency). Music: Lino Rise, Longzihun and Jessica Yip Kevin Macleod