Quintessential Listening Poetry Online Radio and YouTube
377 episodes - English - Latest episode: 28 days ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe mission of the Quintessential Listening Poetry Online Radio and YouTube podcast (QLPORYT) is to provide a live platform for poets from all backgrounds and locations worldwide to showcase their poetry. This includes emerging, mid-level, and established poets. The podcast conducts conversational interviews with poets delving into the essence of poetry within the realms of the mind, heart, and soul. It also provides a platform for poets to showcase their craft, whether through traditional forms or spoken word poetry. If you would like to be a guest on QLPORYT, please contact the host, Dr. Michael Anthony Ingram (see below), at [email protected]. You can also visit the website at www.qlporyt.com to learn more about the podcast.
Dr. Michael Anthony Ingram is a retired university professor, social change activist, and spoken word artist. He taught Counselor Education and Supervision in the College of Education at Oregon State University in Corvallis, OR. He is the host and producer of the Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio podcast (qlporyt.com). He is also the Founder and Executive Director of the DC Poetry Project, Inc., in Washington DC. He uses poetry to spread awareness about power, identity, and oppression issues. His international reputation as a spoken word artist and performance poet has earned him the nickname The Counseling Poet. This is based on his background in mental health. Dr. Ingram has traveled extensively, lecturing and conducting workshops on developing cultural competency and empathy skills through the use of poetry. He has also been nominated for a Pushcart Prize for his poetry. His second poetry collection, When Cherry Blossoms Fall on Black Skin is forthcoming. He resides in Washington, DC.
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Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Kathrine Yets
July 30, 2022 18:00 - 1 hour - 30.4 MBiLearn, 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 Cyber...
Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Teresa Pearsall-Young
July 28, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 33 MBTeresa 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, ...
Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents LaToiya Whipple
July 19, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 29.8 MBLaToiya 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 Aut...
Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Teresa E. Gallion
July 12, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 34.9 MBTeresa 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 h...
Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Natalia Lazarus
July 07, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 27 MBNatalia 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 ...
Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Melody Gee
June 30, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 30.5 MBMelody 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...
Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Caylin Capra-Thomas
June 28, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 32.1 MBCaylin 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 an...
Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Gordon Ferris
June 25, 2022 19:00 - 1 hour - 30.1 MBGordon 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 Sil...
Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Niki Tulk
June 21, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 31.8 MBNiki 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 stori...
QLPOR Proudly Presents Sylvia "Ladi Di" Beverly and Special Guests
June 16, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 30.2 MBSylvia 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 Ex...
Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Archna Sahni
June 09, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 31 MBPoet / 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 ...
Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Mela Blust
June 07, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 27.6 MBSince 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 Teresa James
June 02, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 28.2 MBAuthor 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 bleed...
Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Susannah Kathleen Douglas
May 31, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 29.6 MBSusannah 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 live...
Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Cliff Bernier
May 26, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 31.1 MBClifford 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 An...
Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents S. Yarberry
May 24, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 29 MBS. 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 o...
Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Julie Valin
May 10, 2022 01:00 - 1 hour - 28.3 MBJULIE 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...
Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Ellen Thea - Rebroadcast
April 30, 2022 20:00 - 1 hour - 60.5 MBEllen 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 ins...
Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Diane Wilbon Parks
April 28, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 34.8 MBDiane 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 inte...
Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Ellen Thea
April 26, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 30.3 MBEllen 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 ins...
Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Austin Davis
April 24, 2022 17:00 - 1 hour - 28.9 MBAustin 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 Deepika Singh
April 23, 2022 15:00 - 30 minutes - 27.5 MBDeepika 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, magazi...
Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Scott Norman Rosenthal
April 21, 2022 21:00 - 1 hour - 56.4 MBNATIONAL 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 abo...
Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Teal Jandrain
April 21, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 31.2 MBTeal 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 Whi...
Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Matthew Descovia
April 19, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 27.7 MBBio: 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.
April 16, 2022 18:00 - 1 hour - 28.5 MBFernando 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 a...
Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents James Crews
April 15, 2022 00:00 - 23 minutes - 20.3 MBJames 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 in...
Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Karen Poppy
April 12, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 27.4 MBKaren 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 Mary Oishi
April 05, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 29.3 MBMary 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 MarEsCie...
Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Valeri Beers
April 02, 2022 18:00 - 58 minutes - 26.3 MBValeri 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.wordpres...
QLP: OR Presents Point of View: Women in Poetry
March 17, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 39.7 MBIn 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
March 10, 2022 01:00 - 1 hour - 28.1 MBJessica 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...
Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Josephine LoRe
March 08, 2022 01:00 - 1 hour - 28.4 MBInternational 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 div...
Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents DeeLynn Leigh
March 03, 2022 01:00 - 1 hour - 28.1 MBDeelynn 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 opport...
Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Rojé Augustin
February 24, 2022 01:00 - 58 minutes - 52.6 MBEncore 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 ...
Aaron R. The Poet's Poetically Correct Poetry Contest: The New Year's Edition
February 17, 2022 01:00 - 1 hour - 41.1 MBAaron 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
January 25, 2022 01:00 - 1 hour - 33 MBMartin 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...
Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Diana Howard
January 13, 2022 01:00 - 55 minutes - 25 MBDiana 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 tr...
Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Linda Imbler
January 11, 2022 01:00 - 1 hour - 28.5 MBLinda 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 o...
Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Christian J. Collier
December 18, 2021 20:00 - 49 minutes - 22.3 MBChristian 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 F...
Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Bill Nevins
December 16, 2021 01:00 - 1 hour - 31.5 MBBill 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 ...
Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Ashanti Anderson
December 14, 2021 01:00 - 1 hour - 27.2 MBAshanti 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...
Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Sophia Naz
December 11, 2021 20:00 - 59 minutes - 26.9 MBPoet, 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, R...
Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Jamey Boelhower
December 09, 2021 01:00 - 1 hour - 29.1 MBJamey 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...
Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Catfish McDaris
December 03, 2021 01:00 - 55 minutes - 25 MBCatfish 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 Ani...
Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Proudly Presents Cathleen Cohen
December 01, 2021 01:00 - 37 minutes - 16.5 MBCathleen 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. Sh...
Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Martina McGowan
November 24, 2021 01:00 - 1 hour - 27.7 MBMartina 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...
Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Gad Kaynar-Kissinger
November 23, 2021 01:00 - 36 minutes - 32.5 MBGad 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 Ar...
Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Dr. Sam Illingworth
November 17, 2021 21:00 - 59 minutes - 26.9 MBDr 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...
Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Kevin M. Hibshman
November 16, 2021 01:00 - 1 hour - 28.8 MBKevin 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 ...