The Poets

Lolita returns to the show to feature new work and discuss originality, magic, habits, writing your own story, and much more. Featuring the iconic "Alice on Downers". Beware the white rabbits.

Tristan Buttigieg is a multidisciplinary artist whose work spans poetry, music, writing, publishing, and visual art. As a poet, author, musician, publisher, and artist, he treats art as an open question rather than a fixed answer. Originally from New York City, his work draws from both lived experience and inward reflection. Inspired by the raw honesty of early- to late-20th-century poetic and musical movements, he moves between city concrete and subconscious current, between what is seen and what is felt.

With seven collaborative albums released between 2018 and 2021, Tristan has long explored rhythm and narrative through music. His first published poetry collection, Have Nine Lives, carried that same unrestrained spirit, grounding abstract thought in the everyday pulse of human life. His second collection, Pearlesque, extends that exploration into a space where language and visual form converge. His forthcoming third collection, Va-Va Voom, continues to push his work into new territory, exploring the intersections of experience, perception, and the subconscious.

He resides in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

https://tristanbuttigieg.substack.com/

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Di Slaney lives in an ancient farmhouse on the edge of Sherwood Forest in Nottinghamshire, where she runs livestock sanctuary Manor Farm Charitable Trust and independent publisher Candlestick Press. She has a degree in English and European Literature from the University of Warwick and an MA in Creative Writing from Nottingham Trent University. Di was the winner of the Plough Poetry Prize 2022, and her poems have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4, widely anthologised, and highly commended in the Forward Prize 2016 and 2026, Bridport Prize 2020 and Rialto Nature & Place Competition 2025. She is Poet in Residence at Nottinghamshire Local History Association. Di was diagnosed with a brain tumour in 2019.

You can buy Hard Graft here https://www.aftershockreview.com/product-page/hard-graft-by-di-slaney

And Di's other books here: https://valleypressuk.com/products/reward-for-winter and https://valleypressuk.com/products/herd-queen and https://valleypressuk.com/products/january-conversations-with-dogs

From the Richmond, VA area, BG brings a hip-hop flow to spoken word, conveying messages of peace, resistance, justice, internal struggle, and eroticism.

BG also lived and studied in Chicago, IL, where he received a Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy. Afterwards, he spent some time in Virginia and D.C. before making his way to Denver, CO back in 2014, shortly after obtaining a Master's degree in Public Administration.

BG has been happily married since 2011. He currently works in the public sector and assists his wife with running a small business.

You can find more of BG’s work on Apple Music, Spotify, YouTube Music, and more, under the name "iLL bg"

Anyone interested in artistic collaboration with BG can reach him at: [email protected]

Molly Bilker features to share her work on a range of topics including mental health, teaching, the eras of her poetry, relationships, and the oft misunderstood town of Pueblo, CO. We also discuss a new zine she was a part of creating with her writing group @idafterid (Instagram) hosted at The Ethos in Pueblo, CO.

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Tony V is a streamer, stoner, and self-proclaimed local poet based in Denver, CO. Tony appears at the Friday night open mic at the Mercury Cafe, and has two collections in the works, one of poetry and one of short stories. Find Tony on Instagram ⁠⁠@tony_v_poetry⁠⁠, and TikTok ⁠⁠@zanaro420⁠

Jean-Marc Saint Laurent is an urban fantasy novelist and writer behind “Tripping in Public” —a newsletter about blackness, society, business—and their collisions.

See more from Jean-Marc on Substack: https://substack.com/@jeanmarcsaint

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Steven Seidenberg is an artist, poet, and philosopher whose collections of photographs include The Architecture of Silence (Contrasto, 2023), Pipevalve: Berlin (Lodima Press, 2017), and the forthcoming Kanazawa Vacancy (Chin Music, Fall 2026).  He has had solo exhibitions of his work in Japan, Italy, Germany, Mexico, and the United States. He is the author of Coda (Omnidawn, 2026), Anon (Omnidawn, 2022), plain sight (Roof Books, 2020), Situ (Black Sun Lit, 2018), Null Set (2016, Spooky Actions), Itch (2015, RAW ArT Press), and numerous chapbooks of poetry and aphorism. His books have been published in Swedish, Italian, and Portuguese translation.

Alexander Shalom Joseph is a western existentialist and nature writer. He is an award winning playwright, poet, novelist and author of six published books with three more forthcoming in 2026. He has an MFA in Creative Writing from the Jack Kerouac School and an MA in English Education. Alexander writes a weekly poem on substack and teaches writing in universities, libraries, museums, hiking trails, schools, prisons and elsewhere across the Colorado Front Range. A literary Lorax, he does his best to write for the trees. 

Alexander writes regularly on Substack

EVENT on September 21st at 6pm - lgbtqhp.org/denver

August Bernadicou is the Executive Director of The LGBTQ History Project, a nonprofit dedicated to preserving the lives and legacies of LGBTQ activists from the first wave of gay liberation. His career began in 2008 at the age of 13 when he started interviewing alternative counterculture figures for various online and in-print publications. His work primarily appeared in the punk music magazine Punk Globe. At 18, August began publishing his own "zines" (Teenage News #1, Teenage News #2, and August Nation). In 2020, he co-founded The LGBTQ History Project to archive and share his thousands of recorded interviews and conversations. Through The LGBTQ History Project, August produces a podcast featuring archival interviews, hosts LGBTQ history events, and publishes excerpts from his archive online, in newsletters, and on social media. August is driven by his mission to counteract the erasure of history and provide a platform for individuals seeking to reclaim their legacies, firmly believing that the lessons of the past can pave the way for a better-informed future.

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The LGBTQ History Project, a registered nonprofit organization (EIN: 84-4334508), preserves and shares the stories of LGBTQ+ activists, pioneers, and everyday people whose legacies shaped our communities and movements. Through oral histories, archives, podcasts, and public programs, we ensure these voices are not lost to history. The gay liberation revolution was a real moment in time. With the Gay Liberation Front and similar groups, the world was changed.

The LGBTQ History Project is a grassroots 501(c)(3) organization, and donations can be made here.