Bruna Brito shares a poem about haunting thoughts, sin, and finding happiness. Monique Koller reflects on the last days of Aardvark bookstore, an old SF establishment and her favorite place to buy and sell used books. Monique will also render us a vivid description of seasons changing, and youth hitting the dance floor. Bruna laments a culture of trends and people treating themselves as products, and asks how we can find peace through nature. 

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Produced by Nikolas Harter out of KCSF, the City College of San Francisco's Radio Station. 

Donald Banford shares a short, sweet poem about his love for jelly beans, and Martley Paronda shares a poem comparing watching the sunset to falling in love. Both reflect on their childhoods and how the poetry for the people class has changed their writing.

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Leland Jung shares some activist poetry, and takes us through a cinematic poem of a homeless man looking for his last quarter. Skooter Fein journeys to Venice Beach in a shoutout to the beatniks, and shares some (not so) embarrassing poetry from 40 years ago.

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In this episode: class miscreants, Ariella Pinedo and Kati Spitz, share some personal poems while reflecting on their budding friendship. They'll share poems about putting their children to sleep with a song, fighting discrimination in their workplace, and falling in love with a toothless carni. 

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Josah Hernandez shares about growing up in the Mission, staying out of gangs and learning poetry from reading scripture. William Zheng shares a childhood experience that is guaranteed to throw you back. Both poets and our host Jeff Kaliss discuss Poetry for the People's first poetry reading, and how poetry can be a public service. 

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In this episode, Jim Jones and Cameron Carter share poems about a daughter’s smile, and if the weather went on a date. They’ll discuss inspirations with host Jeff Kaliss, and unpack a recent poetry event they attended honoring Maya Angelou, and featuring three regional poet laureates. 

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Jennie Parrilla shares poetry from Maya Angelou and Jeff Adachi (among others). She’ll discuss with host Jeff Kaliss how activists fighting for civil rights use poetry to speak one another across the decades. Janice Hom will share her own poetry, and discusses the importance of imagery by vividly describing the Chinese Autumn Moon festival, and remembering an old hate crime. 

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The Poetry for the People Podcast is a project of the City College of San Francisco class of the same name, instructed by Tehmina Khan and comprising students of diverse ethnicites, ages, and genders. The Podcast extends the mission of the class, which is connecting the art and craft of poetry with the community and society in which it's created. We aim to share share the life experience, influences, and wonderfully varied poetry of the students with listeners across the cybernetic noosphere.

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Produced by Nikolas Harter out of KCSF, the City College of San Francisco's Radio Station.