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Author/Poet Samuel Rain Benjamin aka Complicated Passions, creator of the Passions Private Collection and Dark Man Blues the series, has written over 40 books including “Love and the Conversation, The Clone in Me and The Foreplay Series.” He has also performed across the country from Los Angeles to New York. 

His latest work is from the Dark Man Blues collection, 

“An Interview with Love” which is also nominated for an NAACP Image Award for 2024. 

Next up “Love Is” a project coauthor by Jah Smalls set to be released in 2024. 

https://www.darkmanblues.com/

From an eternal realm, NOUSHKA, was destined to blaze forth, and her ability to was written for her before the beginning of time.

As a child, she was often complimented for her beautiful handwriting amongst other things, and though aesthetically pleasing, there were days of old when she naively inscribed her aesthetic; not realizing, everything written and done in this tangible realm has the ability to be trapped in time. 

Now that she's met Oneness, whenever her life strikes fire, she does all things from the well of, understanding, truth, and love.

'Refined, Passionate Fire' is the title of her book available at https://www.noushkapresents.com/

James Mr. Speaker Sears is a highly decorated retired Army officer with four combat tours who is originally from Louisville, KY.  He is an event host, motivational speaker, spoken word artist, track coach, and professional mentor with the Steve Harvey Summer Camp.

  

He is a highly decorated Soldier, a former adjunct professor for Saint Leo University, the author of two books, (The Heart of a Military Leader and Love Verses Hate).  He has produced five spoken word CDs, and he has co-hosted with BlogTalk and he is the host of Verbal Vibration Podcast.             

Mr. Speaker is all about mentoring our youth, supporting veteran’s issues, being a champion for victims, and taking the art of spoken word to the next level.  He has featured and or hosted at the Nuyorican Poet's Cafe, Bus Boys and Poets, all over Europe, and he was a featured speaker aboard the Tom Joyner Cruise.

https://mrspeakerink.com/

https://www.instagram.com/mrspeakersears/

https://www.facebook.com/james.f.sears

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Poet, storyteller, and essayist Roberto Carlos Garcia is a self-described "sancocho [...] of provisions from the Harlem Renaissance, the Spanish Poets of 1929, the Black Arts Movement, the Nuyorican School, and the Modernists." He is founder of the cooperative press Get Fresh Books Publishing and currently serves as a NJ State Council of the Arts Poetry Fellow. His collection Black / Maybe: An Afro Lyric was included in the Library of Congress Afro Latinx Literature Bibliography. He has presented Afro Latinx poetry and poetics at Notre Dame University (2022), at Dartmouth College (2023), and has read for Mahogany L. Brown’s Working Intersections Lincoln Center program. Garcia’s essay collection Traveling Freely is forthcoming in 2024 from Northwestern University Press. Visit his website for more information (see below). He is the author of five books. Four poetry collections: 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), Melancolía (Cervena Barva Press, 2016), & one essay collection, Traveling Freely, forthcoming in 2024 from Northwestern University Press. Website https://www.robertocarlosgarcia.com.

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

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https://twitter.com/PhynneBelle

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.

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.

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/

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

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, obtain 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.