Quintessential Poetry: A Global Poetry & Spoken Word Poetry Podcast

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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.

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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!!

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Author: Linda Eguiluz (egg-ee-loose) lives and writes in Austin, Texas.

Book: The Carcass Undressed

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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. 

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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 [email protected]. You can also visit the website at qlpor.com to learn more about the podcast. 

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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

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"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.