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 Jacinta V. White
April 01, 2021 00:00 - 59 minutes - 27 MBJacinta 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 Katerina Canyon
March 27, 2021 20:00 - 52 minutes - 47 MBKatarina 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 Y...
Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Gretchen Primack
March 27, 2021 18:00 - 54 minutes - 48.7 MBGretchen 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...
Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Gerry LaGuardia Leonard
March 25, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 27.2 MBGerry 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 poe...
World Poetry Day 2021
March 21, 2021 17:00 - 1 hour - 44.1 MBWorld 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...
Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Kelly C. Bradley
March 18, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 28 MBKelly 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...
Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Mysti S. Milwee
March 11, 2021 01:00 - 1 hour - 56.7 MBMysti 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 ...
Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Amy Jean
March 06, 2021 18:00 - 43 minutes - 39.2 MBAmy 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 writin...
Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Kim B Miller
March 04, 2021 01:00 - 1 hour - 54.6 MBKim 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. K...
Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Jerry T. Johnson
February 25, 2021 01:00 - 1 hour - 57.3 MBBIO 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 wit...
Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Kay Bell
February 18, 2021 01:00 - 1 hour - 54 MBBio: 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
February 11, 2021 01:00 - 1 hour - 56.7 MBJackie 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 (av...
Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Brian Donnell James
February 04, 2021 01:00 - 1 hour - 56.1 MBPoet, 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, ...
An Open-Mic Poetry Tribute to the Life and Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
January 19, 2021 01:00 - 1 hour - 54.1 MBJoin 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...
Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Shakira Croce
January 14, 2021 01:00 - 1 hour - 55.3 MBShakira 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 ...
Poetically Correct Poetry Contest #1
January 09, 2021 18:00 - 1 hour - 59.9 MBAaronRPoems.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. Wh...
Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Jude Hunkar Anderson
January 05, 2021 19:00 - 57 minutes - 51.4 MBI’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 re...
Quintessential Listening: Poetry Presents Marianne Szlyk and Ethan Goffman
December 24, 2020 01:00 - 1 hour - 63 MBMarianne 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,...
Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Jessica Care Moore
December 17, 2020 01:00 - 40 minutes - 35.9 MBjessica 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 Alphab...
Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Celaine Charles
December 10, 2020 01:00 - 1 hour - 55.6 MBBio: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: D...
Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Tali Cohen Shabtai
December 05, 2020 17:00 - 24 minutes - 21.7 MBTali 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 Year...
Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Heather Corbally Bryant
November 19, 2020 01:00 - 1 hour - 57 MBHeather 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 ...
Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Claudine Nash
November 12, 2020 01:00 - 1 hour - 57 MBWinner 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 Pr...
Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Don Beukes
November 07, 2020 18:00 - 1 hour - 65.1 MBBio 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 ...
Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Don Beukes
November 05, 2020 18:00 - 1 hour - 65.1 MBBio 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 ...
Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Frogg Corpse
October 22, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 64.3 MBFrogg 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 w...
Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Jesse Ellsbury
October 15, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 56 MBJesse 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 t...
Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents C.M. Crockford
October 01, 2020 00:00 - 54 minutes - 49.1 MBC.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.
September 24, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 60 MBLinwood 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. L...
Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Kristin Ferragut
September 17, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 57.5 MBKristin 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
September 10, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 56 MBDuane 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-ca...
Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Susana H. Case
September 03, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 56.5 MBBIO: 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 ...
Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Cristina A. Bejan
August 27, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 56.4 MBTo 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 D...
Quintessential Listening: Poetry Presents Dominique Jones
August 20, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 55.4 MBDominique 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 Futur...
QLP_OR's 100th Episode Celebration!
August 13, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 63.6 MBWell, 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
July 30, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 57.6 MBBio 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...
Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Ethan Goffman
July 23, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 60.9 MBEthan 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
July 16, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 83.1 MBQuintessential 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...
Quintessential Listening: Poetry Reading Series Presents Linda Imbler
July 09, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 54.7 MBLinda 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...
Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Open Mic Night
July 02, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 63.9 MBFamed 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 dail...
Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Candice Kelsey
June 25, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 55.6 MBCANDICE 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...
Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Phyllis Klein
June 18, 2020 06:30 - 1 hour - 59.8 MBPhyllis 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...
Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Jonathan B. Tucker
June 11, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 56.6 MBJBT 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
June 07, 2020 19:00 - 1 hour - 69.7 MBProtest 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, k...
Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Francis Diclemente
June 04, 2020 00:00 - 52 minutes - 46.7 MBFrancis 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 provid...
National Mental Health Awareness Month Poetry Program
May 22, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 99.2 MBThe 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 an...
QLP Reading Series Presents Sara Cahill Marron, Katy Bohinc and Lee Ann Brown
May 14, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 55.3 MBSara 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 h...
QL_P Presents I, Too, Know Why The Caged Bird Sings: Pandemic Poetry
May 07, 2020 00:00 - 59 minutes - 53.4 MBIt'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-poetr...
QL_P Presents Poetry in the Age of the Coronavirus
April 30, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 54.2 MBhttps://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: Poe...
The Quintessential Listening: Poetry Reading Series Presents Todd Cirillo
April 23, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 55.5 MBTodd 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 in...