Oswald Perez

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In my writings and videos, I inspire people to tell their stories. Everyone needs to be seen and heard.

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May 26, 2025 @OPWriter | Dancing, In The Evening Light
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"I can't see her yet I feel her presence. Her voice seductively says, I'm here for you. Putting her hand to my heart. The low and slow strains of a bandolmeon begin. It's a tango for this dance, or so I think. As the groove changes, a quick shift for salsa begins. The temple keeps alternating. My feet keep moving to the beat as the song goes on. She's still in shadow. Her silhouette a mix of previous partners. The song ends."
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9min
May 23, 2025 @OPWriter | A Poem Asking Exactly What I Want
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"Now I'm able to say what I need after missing the words on the first try, even if I don't know how to get any of this. So I had the poem initially written first written as a list of things that I wanted because I did not know the things that I that I needed. But as I recorded the video earlier this evening, I took a look at my initial poem and completely tossed out the words that I had written for it and just spoke from the heart."
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7min
May 15, 2025 @OPWriter | Allow Me To Introduce Myself
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"Allow me to introduce myself as the man behind the pen name O for Oswald, P for Perez. Writing from Queens in New York City, I write with my heart on my sleeve, observing the world around me. Everything is fair game. From mundane ways of daily life, adventures across the globe, and the days that have gone by. I may be quiet and reserved, but I am not a silent person. My words are where I speak loudest with an amplified tone of voice."
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5min
April 30, 2025 @OPWriter | Without Poetry, Who Am I?
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"A question I refuse to contemplate as without words there's only a body here. I have enough trouble as it is expressing myself. It's why I stay quiet, reserved and shy. Responses would come out stammering or crying and would be misunderstood. Without poetry, I don't have a medium. I'm not so great at music, dance or art. Yet the words seem to flow whenever I put them in this person stanza."
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8min
April 17, 2025 @OPWriter | The Muse Returns, As a Salsera
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"It read, thank you for the dance. K sealed with her lip prints. Who was she? I'll never know. So that Google photo notification took me back to March 29th. That night, I went to the monthly social for the Kukala Dance Company. And at about 11:00 that night, the professional dancers who owned the studio took the stage."
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8min
April 10, 2025 @OPWriter | If This is the last poem I ever write, let it be.
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"Because I like the whole being a poet and a writer kind of came by accident in the first place. Like I, it was my English teacher, Ms. Levy, discovered that I, that I had something there. And it. Even though over the years I took various, like, detours direct through blogging, playwriting, poetry. I never really stopped doing so like I like it felt like this was my thing because I didn't really have anything else that I could say point to say."
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8min
March 28, 2025 @OPWriter | Chasing Eden
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"But I don't really have much else to say regarding this poem. April's coming up, which January took a century to get through. And yet February and March went faster than the blink of an eye. And yet here we are at the end of March, heading into the month of April, a quarter of the way through 2025. April's also national Poetry Writing Month. So I'll be writing a p. Writing a poem a day on my Instagram feed every day through the month of April."
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11min
March 07, 2025 @OPWriter | Elmo Asks, "How Is Everyone Doing?"
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"Which in and of itself is is a response to and to a message that Elmo's Social that post that was posted on Elmo's various social media feeds in 2024 asking people that same question and the myriad of responses from all over the emotional spectrum that resulted from it. I came across Raquel's poem randomly scrolling through my feed two weeks ago and I was so taken by what I saw that I decided to write my an afterpiece for it. And it goes something like this."
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5min
February 20, 2025 @OPWriter | I Met My Younger Self For Coffee
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"Good, Good. Good evening, everybody for this week's. Well, it's a p. It's a. It's an afterpiece. I came across this poem and met my younger self for coffee by the poet Janae Cecilia. And I started seeing multiple after poems in response to the original piece. I was so awestruck by everyone's responses that I could not help but get in on it for myself. So this is my response to the poem, and it goes something like."
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6min
February 14, 2025 @OPWriter | Happy Valentine’s Day!
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"Meeting you with all the love I can give. Happy Valentine's Day. When it comes to Valentine's Day, it's always kind of been a lovely situation where it's like the loving feelings bring joy, you know, the fact that like involved with anyone to this hate there a little bit of melancholy to the day. But in the end I decide to stick with the loving feeling. There's love triumph over cynicism every single time."
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The podcast currently has 95 episodes available.