Quintessential Poetry: A Global Poetry & Spoken Word Poetry Podcast

Quintessential Poetry: A Global Poetry & Spoken Word Poetry Podcast

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Quintessential Poetry: A Global Poetry & Spoken Word Poetry Podcast episodes

  • Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Noushka

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    In this spiritually charged episode of Quintessential Listening Poetry Online Radio and YouTube, Dr. Michael Anthony Ingram engages metaphysical poet and visionary creator NOUSHKA in a quintessential poetry podcast conversation exploring her creative journey, literary expression, and the eternal realm from which she draws her fire. Destined to blaze forth, Noushka’s ability to channel truth, understanding, and love was written for her before the beginning of time.

    As a child, she was often praised for her beautiful handwriting—an early sign of the aesthetic power she would one day wield. She once inscribed her thoughts without realizing that everything written in this tangible realm can be trapped in time. Now, having met Oneness, she creates from a place of spiritual refinement, allowing every strike of life’s fire to be transformed through the well of understanding, truth, and love.

    Her debut book, Refined, Passionate Fire, available at NoushkaPresents.com, embodies this evolution. It is a work forged from divine connection, emotional alchemy, and the sacred recognition that her words carry both timelessness and intention. This conversation explores Noushka’s metaphysical worldview, her creative awakening, and the spiritual forces that shape her poetic voice.

    1 hr 17 min
  • Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents James Mr. Speaker Sears

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    In this commanding episode of Quintessential Listening Poetry Online Radio and YouTube, Dr. Michael Anthony Ingram engages James “Mr. Speaker” Sears—a highly decorated retired Army officer, motivational speaker, event host, spoken word artist, and mentor—in a quintessential poetry podcast conversation exploring his creative journey, literary expression, and lifelong commitment to service. Originally from Louisville, Kentucky, Mr. Speaker completed four combat tours during his military career and has since transformed his leadership experience into a powerful artistic and community‑driven mission.

    A dynamic performer and cultural force, Mr. Speaker has been featured or hosted at the Nuyorican Poet’s Café, Busboys and Poets, venues across Europe, and even aboard the Tom Joyner Cruise. He is the author of The Heart of a Military Leader and Love Verses Hate and has produced five spoken word CDs. His work blends military discipline, emotional truth, and social advocacy, creating a unique voice within contemporary spoken word.

    Beyond the stage, Mr. Speaker deeply commits to mentoring youth, supporting veterans, championing victims, and elevating spoken word to new heights. He has served as a professional mentor with the Steve Harvey Summer Camp and previously taught as an adjunct professor at Saint Leo University. He also hosts the Verbal Vibration Podcast, continuing his mission to inspire, uplift, and empower communities through storytelling and performance.

    https://mrspeakerink.com/ https://www.instagram.com/mrspeakersears/ https://www.facebook.com/james.f.sears

    1 hr 35 min
  • Roberto Carlos Garcia: A Scholar’s Voice, Story, and the Afro‑Latinx Poetic Tradition

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    In this rich and resonant episode of Quintessential Listening Poetry Online Radio and YouTube, Dr. Michael Anthony Ingram engages poet, storyteller, essayist, and cultural curator Roberto Carlos Garcia in a quintessential poetry podcast conversation exploring his creative journey, literary expression, and Afro-Latinx poetics. Listeners should increase the audio volume due to sound issues.

    Garcia describes himself as a “sancocho […] of provisions from the Harlem Renaissance, the Spanish Poets of 1929, the Black Arts Movement, the Nuyorican School, and the Modernists,” reflecting the layered traditions that shape his voice. He founded Get Fresh Books Publishing, a cooperative press dedicated to amplifying diverse literary voices, and currently serves as a New Jersey State Council on the Arts Poetry Fellow.

    His collection Black / Maybe: An Afro Lyric was included in the Library of Congress Afro-Latinx Literature Bibliography, marking a significant contribution to the canon. Garcia has presented Afro-Latinx poetry and poetics at Notre Dame University (2022) and Dartmouth College (2023) and has read for Mahogany L. Brown’s Working Intersections program at Lincoln Center.

    The author of five books, Garcia’s poetry collections include the forthcoming What Can I Tell You: The Selected Poems of Roberto Carlos Garcia (FlowerSong Press, 2023), [Elegies] (FlowerSong Press, 2020), Black / Maybe: An Afro Lyric (Willow Books, 2018), and Melancolía (Červená Barva Press, 2016). His essay collection Traveling Freely is forthcoming in 2024 from Northwestern University Press. This conversation explores Garcia’s evolution as an artist, his Afro Latinx lineage, his editorial mission, and the cultural forces that shape his work.

    Website https://www.robertocarlosgarcia.com.

    1 hr 29 min
  • Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Phynne~Belle

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    Phynne~Belle is a San Francisco Bay Area poet, writer, and co-director of The Poetry Global Network. She had her poetry included in two poetry anthologies in 2021, Sinew: Ten Years of Poetry in the Brew and The Bronx Memoir Project Anthology Vol. V. This year, she has contributed to PGN’s first anthology, Kaleidoscopoetry, which includes works from poets across the globe. Phynne has one poetry collection titled, Some Days, Here. You can also find her holding her a bimonthly online open mic on 2nd & 4th Thursdays, as well as organize other poetry events and programs through her Phynnecabulary platform that endeavor to make the literary arts (poetry in particular) accessible widely. Phynne used to be a superhero of creatures big and small in a past life. You can follow her on Instagram @phynne_belle and on Twitter @PhynneBelle. To connect with her in more ways, you can go to https://linktr.ee/PhynneBelle.
    https://www.instagram.com/phynne_belle
    https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=0CDgQw7AJahcKEwi45uvy5fH_AhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAw&url=https%3A%2F%2Fopen.spotify.com%2Fshow%2F5n9uR9Ii0D0vZ103Z1Jl9k&psig=AOvVaw3_zCEMGQiHSAiJG--8NeDM&ust=1688448215915364&opi=89978449
    https://twitter.com/PhynneBelle
    1 hr 46 min
  • Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Paul Rabinowitz

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    Paul Rabinowitz is a novelist, poet, photographer, founder of ARTS By The People and an adjunct professor at Fairleigh Dickinson University. His works appear in The Sun Magazine, New World Writing, Burningword, Evening Street Press, The Montreal Review, and elsewhere. Rabinowitz was a featured artist in Nailed Magazine in 2020, Mud Season Review in 2022 and Apricity and Woven Tale Press in 2023. He is the author of The Clay Urn, Confluence and Limited Light, a book of prose and portrait photography, which stems from his Limited Light photo series, nominated for Best of the Net in 2021. Rabinowitz is creator and co-writer with Brittney Bertier of the TV pilot called Bungalow, and author of the book of poems called truth, love and the lines in between and a chapbook of auto-fiction called Grand Street, Revisited (both with Finishing Line Press). His poems and fiction are the inspiration for 8 award-winning experimental films, including Best Experimental Short at Cannes, Venice Shorts Film Festival, RevolutionME, Oregon Short Film Festival, and The Paris Film Festival. This month his photograph appeared on the cover of Press Pause Press Magazine and inside Glint and Burningword Literary Magazine. His latest prose poems “Netflix Thriller” will appear in Sonora Review and “In The Original Language” in Talking River Review.
    1 hr 30 min
  • Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents John Patrick Robbins

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    John Patrick Robbins is a southern gothic writer and poet. He is also referred to as The Mad Editor; he is currently the editor in chief of thirteen magazines. He is also the author twelve books his latest being Midnight Masochism from Black Circle Publishing. He has been published in The Dopefiend Daily, Punk Noir Magazine, Horror Sleaze Trash, San Pedro River Review, Schlock Magazine, Red Fez, Fearless Poetry Zine, Disturb The Universe, It Takes All Kinds A Literary Zine,Mojave River Review, Piker Press, Impspired Magazine Lothlorian Poetry Journal, Fixator Press. His work is dark, often humorous and always unfiltered.
    1 hr 6 min
  • QLPOR Proudly Presents Tré'Jhaun Andrece Dueberry|Spoken Word

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    Tré’Jhaun Andrece Dueberry (They/Them & She/Her), also known for their poetry as Love Infinite, is a multi-disciplinary creator, performer and artist currently living in Augusta, Georgia. They bow in service to the ideas of evolution and constant metamorphosis through a reverence of nature, divinity, vulnerability and candor in all they create. They recently self-published an e-book titled The Fear Project, Volume One. For all things Tré’Jhaun, visit www.beacons.ai/tr3333gga.
    https://trejhaun.wixsite.com/4444
    https://www.instagram.com/dragonempress99/
    https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100071762621768
    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7I7kVrtBkKc6fHQr_Wa8tg
    https://www.linkedin.com/in/trejhaundueberry/
    1 hr 25 min
  • Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Poetry Global Network

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    Poetry Global Network
    A few years after we all met during COVID during the emerging open-mic scene on Zoom, Lakan (LKN) presented the idea of us forming a poet’s community. PGN - Poetry Global Network (PGN) was created in 2021 as a non-profit corporation in the UK. We are an international media platform created by poets to serve poetry and its new and expanding audiences using social media and technology platforms. PGN offers weekly installments of open mics, workshops, partnerships with festivals and publishing. PGN publishing released its first book in 2023, Kaleidoscopoetry, an anthology of 16 member poets, and are currently working on 2 collections by different poets.
    Website: www.poetryglobalnetwork.com
    On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PoetryGlobalNetwork.
    Executive Board Members: Lawan Bulatao, Mark Fishbein, Martin Grey, LKN and Phynne
    1 hr 27 min
  • Quintessential Poetry Presents The Day The World Caught Fire: 9/11 Remembrance

    Welcome to Quintessential Poetry. Today marks the 24th anniversary of September 11th, 2001. Two years ago, on the 22nd anniversary, I hosted a remembrance episode to honor the lives lost, the families forever changed, and the resilience of a nation that still carries the weight of that day. I have chosen to share that episode with you again—not because the grief is new, but because remembrance has no time limit. Memory is not bound by one year or one moment. The voices and reflections you will hear remain as important now as they were then. So, I invite you to join me in listening once more, holding space for loss, for resilience, and for the healing that poetry can offer. This is our 9/11 remembrance.

    September 11, 2023: Welcome, dear listeners, to a special episode of the QLPOR poetry podcast. Tonight, we gather together to honor and remember the lives impacted by the tragic events of September 11th. In commemoration of this day, we have invited poets, singers, and musicians from far and wide to share their heartfelt reflections through the power of spoken word. Throughout this episode, we'll be featuring a collection of poignant poems, each carrying its own unique message of hope, resilience, and unity. As we listen to these beautiful words, let us remember and pay tribute to the strength and resilience of the human spirit. Some poets will be calling in live, sharing their verses directly with us. Additionally, we will broadcast other poets reading their poems via MP3 audio files obtained from Creative Commons archives, enabling us to broadcast them in their own voices. So, find a comfortable spot, take a deep breath, and immerse yourself in the power of words and music. Let it be a reminder that even in the face of darkness, we can find peace, hope, and solace.

    53 min
  • Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Features Stephen C. Pollock

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    Stephen C. Pollock is the author of the poetry collection Exits, published by Windtree Press. The book nods to the literary traditions of years past while simultaneously speaking to the present moment. It responds to contemporary anxieties surrounding death and the universal search for meaning in life’s transience. Influenced by Dr. Seuss, Pollock began writing rhymed poems at age nine. In high school, he maintained a poetry journal as part of his sophomore English curriculum, and at Amherst College, he took four rigorous poetry courses. During his final semester at Amherst, in an act of love masquerading as mania, he stopped attending classes, isolated himself from friends, ate and slept reluctantly, and spent five straight weeks writing a metaphysical poem on the theme of subjective vs. objective reality. His professional career was a play in two acts. Trained as a physician, Pollock was recruited to Duke University as Chief of Neuro-Ophthalmology in 1987. His clinical practice consisted of evaluating and caring for patients with complex ocular manifestations of neurological diseases. He also trained ophthalmology residents and fellows, and he published a number of clinical and research papers in the medical literature. Prior to leaving academic medicine, he achieved a rank of Associate Professor with tenure.
    After seventeen years, Pollock left Duke to become chief executive of CEC (cecvision.com), a nationwide company that provides vision benefits to individuals and their family members. He retired after the company was sold in 2019. Pollock has occasionally dabbled in engineering and technology as well. He wrote U.S. Patent 4,477,158, Lens System for Variable Refraction, and he also designed an instrument that’s used to biopsy inaccessible tumors of the orbit and brain. For more information, please visit, https://exitspoetry.net/
    1 hr 15 min

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