Quintessential Poetry: Online Radio, YouTube and Zoom

Duane 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-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.

Rebroadcast - Women's History Month 2019

Writer's Biography

Pearl Brown holds a Bachelors of Science degree in Chemistry, She is a Montessori Certified Middle and High School Teacher. She teaches Math and Science at the Oneness Family School (from 2014 till the present) in Chevy Chase, Maryland.

I first began writing at the young age of 7 or 8. Writing was a way of expressing my love of reading. When I wrote the words came to me effortlessly. I wanted to write a story that reflected the great pleasure that I had when I read stories. I wrote a book about a young girl and her dog surviving a hurricane. I wrote the story, drew the illustrations, designed the book cover and neatly stapled the pages to fit into a book form. The name of the book was, “A Girl, Her Dog, and the Hurricane.” I even read it to my first - grade class. My next bout of writing occurred during my teenage years. My writing reflected the annoyance of my interfering and confused parents’ as they attempted to parent their rebellious daughter. I also wrote of puppy love and the devastation of my first break-up.

Then I got married, had children and began the process of pouring my life and love into their hearts. It was during this time that I began to write again. My “Eros” poems reflected my ownership of the joy I found in my intimate relationships. As my sons got older, I wrote, “A Mother’s Reflection: Aset of poems dedicated to the growth/challenges I had in the relationships with my sons.” As life got busier and busier, I stopped writing and put away my poetry. Last year, on a challenge, to redirect my life so that it reflected my first joy, I dusted off and unearthed my poems and for the first time, I began to read them to my friends and on the stage of Bossa. I love the energy and the joy that reading my poetry gives me. I plan to continue writing and speaking my work.

Octavio is Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Wellesley College. His first poetry collection, The Book of Ours, was a selection of the chapbook series at Letras Latinas, University of Notre Dame (Momotombo Press, 2009). He is currently working on a second poetry manuscript, tentatively titled "The Wingless Hour." Some poems from this collection appear in Lambda Literary's Poetry Spotlight (shorturl.at/bgxKN), Anomaly, La Guagua, and the "Taboo" series at the La Casita Grande, as well as an anthology of Dominican poets in the diaspora (Retrato íntimo de poetas dominicanos, https://amzn.to/2Sz051V). Other poems appear in Puerto del Sol, OCHO, and MiPoesias, among other journals. González is also at work on what he calls an "ekphrastic memoir," the first part of which appears in the inaugural issue of the bilingual Latino Book Review; as well as on a closet drama (or dramatic dialogue), "Q & A." Act Two of "Q & A" will be dramatized for this radio hour. You can follow him on Twitter @TaviRGonzalez.

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Yvonne Brewer is originally from County Offaly, Ireland and lives in Cork, Ireland. She has had poetry published since 2014 with Women's Spiritual Poetry, including in their fourth anthology “Goddess: When She Rules: Expressions of Contemporary Women” (Dec 2017) Motherhood has taken her down a very creative path and her writing is greatly influenced by her children, her dreams, nature and fairies.

In 2013 Yvonne self published an e-book called “Breathe and Bloom.Soul Mother Meditations”, 10 pregnancy meditations that she was inspired to write during her second pregnancy.

She also has had poetry published with the Blue Nib and her poetry has been read on several audio poetry radio shows of American poet Tamara Miles “Where the Light Most Falls” broadcast by SpiritPlantsRadio.com

Prior to Motherhood , Yvonne studied in University College Cork graduating in 1994 with a Degree in Social Science and in 1996 with a Masters in Social Science (Youth and Community Work) Her career path includes working in jobs such as a Lecturer in Adult Education, supporting communities as a community development worker and after school services for children. Her most fulfilling career to date has been as a full time Mother to her two sons.

Her first poetry book released in October 2018 is available to buy in paperback or e-book on Amazon. “Twigs” by Yvonne Brewer is a collection of poems based on the simple but extraordinary mindful moments of everyday life combining motherhood with nature and reflecting spiritual themes that take the reader on a journey to the soul.

Yvonne is currently working on her second poetry collection “The Story Stones and Wishing Bones” which is a reflection of the sorrow and losses of Ireland’s past.

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Sara Cahill Marron is a relocated Queens, New York poet currently living in Washington, D.C. After earning her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in English Language & Literaturefrom St. John’s University, Sara moved to D.C. to pursue a degree in law at the George Washington University Law School. Poetry is her compass at the intersections of art & law. She is the author of Reasons for the Long Tu’m (Broadstone Books, 2018). Her workhas been published widely in literary magazines and journals such as Dark Matter, Chagrin River Review, Foliate Oak, Gravel, Crab Fat Magazine, Gravitas, Atlas + Alice, Joey & the Black Boots, The Write Launch, Cordella, and Newtown Literary. You can follow her on Instagram @saracmarron or twitter @misswind_ or read more of her work here: www.saracahillmarron.com

Catfish McDaris has been active in the small press world for 30 years. His biggest seller is Prying: with Jack Micheline and Charles Bukowski. He has four walls, a ceiling, heat, food, a woman, a daughter, one cat, a typing machine, and a mailbox. Sometimes he gets lucky and someone publishes his words. In 1998 he read at a big Beatnik gathering in Cherry Valley, NY at Ginsberg’s farm. Catfish McDaris served in the Army artillery shooting 155 MM Howitzers. His dad was on the Bataan Death March and his older brother did two tours in Vietnam and retired as a sergeant major. Catfish is an aging New Mexican living near Milwaukee. His work has recently been translated into Spanish, Italian, French, Polish, Swedish, Arabic, Mandarin, Bengali, Mandarin, Tagalog, and Esperanto. His 30 years of published material is in the Special Archives Collection at Marquette Univ. in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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2368 S. 59th St.

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U.S.A.

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Alatishe Kolawole wishes to embody integrity. His dream and his vision are to become a positive example for many young people, all over the world. Faith - an invisible power - and the will to grow humanly even when times are hard and difficult guide and inspire his work. The poet has the certainty that the right wins over iniquity. He has faith that the sun will rise again, life will go on and things will improve in some way. Somehow, even when it seems impossible. His poetry is aimed primarily at boys and girls all over the world. His verses have been published in the Punch Papers (Arts & Culture), Wildfire Publications Magazine (United States), The Poet's Attic World Anthology (United States), Genoa Poetry, (Italy) and other literary magazines. Alatishe travels through the stages of life trying to anticipate the future. His poetry collection Welcome to the Poets Residence and We Need a Road on this Broken Heart are scheduled for 2020 "Immerse your feet in this river of hope" by Alatishe opens the new series by Lavinia.

Dee Scribes has been a poet and cultural record-keeper since second grade. She uses language to highlight the needs of her community and her personal journey through life. She's been featured at The Gathering, P.O.G, National Arts & Humanities Celebration for Ebenezer AME Church, AWAKE and many other events in the DMV and Chicagoland area. She is CEO of Dee.Core Accessories, which allows her and her clientele to show their creativity through fashion. Although she holds a M.S. in instructional design and development, her favorite form of communication is hip-hop.  A true B-girl/round-the-way girl for the south suburbs of Chicago, the realness of her message and heart of her cadence is bound to make every venue your favorite classroom.

BIO: Bio: Alan King is the author of Point Blank (Silver Birch Press, 2016) and DRIFT (Willow Books/Aquarius Press, 2012). He's a Caribbean American, whose parents emigrated from Trinidad and Tobago to the U.S. in the 1970s. He’s also a husband, father, and communications professional who blogs about art and social issues at alanwking.com. A Cave Canem graduate fellow, he holds a Master's of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the Stonecoast Program at the University of Southern Maine. He’s been nominated multiple times for a Pushcart Prize and was a Best of the Net selection. He’s currently working on the DRIFT audiobook.  He lives with his family in Bowie, Maryland.

Alatishe Kolawole wishes to embody integrity.His dream and his vision are to become a positive example for many young people, all over the world. Faith - an invisible power - andthe will to grow humanly even when times arehard and difficult guide and inspire his work. The poet has the certainty that the right wins over iniquity. He has faith that the sun will rise again, life will go on and things will improve in some way. Somehow, even when itseems impossible. His poetry is aimed primarily at boys and girls all over the world. His verses have been published in the Punch Papers (Arts & Culture), Wildfire Publications Magazine (United States), The Poet's Attic World Anthology (United States), Genoa Poetry, (Italy) and other literary magazines. Alatishe travels through the stages of life trying to anticipate the future. His poetry collection Welcome to the Poets Residence and We Need a Road on this Broken Heart is scheduled for 2020 "Immerse your feet in this river of hope" by Alatishe opens the new series by Lavinia.