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JBT is a writer, educator, performer, and poet based in Washington, DC. Sharing his work at schools, theaters, and venues around the world, he has performed in Cape Town, Boston, London, New York City, Stockholm, Seattle, the Kennedy Center, and the South African State Theater. Committed to empowering the next generation of artists and activists, for over 15 years he has been teaching and mentoring young people, creating outstanding opportunities for poets around the world.

Protest poetry cries out against wrongs (of any kind) that ought to be set right, whether they are social, political, environmental, etc. It’s not always kind and polite. It speaks truth to power. Poets have used their verses to oppose slavery, the segregation, Vietnam War, environmental issues and racial oppression, the Iraq war, and more recently, discrimination and police violence against African-Americans. James Baldwin in 1979 wrote that "You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can't, but also knowing that literature is indispensable to the world... The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even but a millimeter the way people look at reality, then you can change it… If there is no moral question, there is no reason to write." So, if you’re concerned about the state of the country, and the world, let your voice be heard. Call-in and express yourself through poetry. K McClendon - "Protest" Oct 9, 2019…

Francis DiClemente is the author of five poetry collections, most recently Dreaming of Lemon Trees: Selected Poems (Finishing Line Press, 2019). His full-length stage play, Beyond the Glass, inspired by Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks, was produced by a regional theater in Las Vegas, Nevada, in 2017. He lives in Syracuse, New York, where he works as a video producer, and his blog can be found at francisdiclemente.com.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 critical dialogue and discussion about poetry. If you would like to be a guest on QL: P, please contact me at maingram@gmx.com.Magic Forest Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

The program is sponsored by Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio and the National Alliance on Mental Illness, Washington, DC Chapter. Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio is a popular BlogtalkRadio podcast. It is also available on ITunes and Sound Cloud. Please visit www.blogtalkradio.com/ql_p for more details.NAMI DC is the local chapter for the National Alliance on Mental Illness in the District of Columbia, providing education, support, and advocacy for individuals and their families with mental illness.DonateThe organization strives to fight stigma, provide support, and advocate for individuals with mental illness and their families. Your contribution will help strengthen the movement. Please click the link below to make your donation today.  If you would like to donate in honor or memory of someone(s), please give us the name(s) the way you want it listed in the comment box provided at checkout. http://www.namidc.org/donateMembership Join thousands o…

Sara Cahill Marron, a relocated New York poet living in Washington D.C., is the author of Reasons for the Long Tu’m (Broadstone Books, 2018) and Associate Editor of Beltway Poetry Quarterly. Her work has been published widely in literary magazines and journals such as Gravel, Atlas + Alice, Joey & the Black Boots, Cordella, Newtown Literary, South Florida Poetry Journal, Golden Walkman, Lunch Ticket, Poetry in the Time of Coronavirus, New Verse News, and others. You can read more of her work at www.saracahillmarron.com.https://poets.org/poet/lee-ann-brown

It's open mic poetry night on Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio. So call-in and share your poetry about the pandemic and other topics. https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2020/0331/1127523-poetry-pandemic-coronavirus/https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/poetry-in-the-times-of-covid-19/article31163319.ecehttps://www.pittoc.com/https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/famous-lines-of-poetry-revised-for-the-age-of-coronavirushttps://www.hindustantimes.com/art-and-culture/world-poetry-day-2020-10-poets-you-must-read-during-coronavirus-self-quarantine/story-qloqtHQFfN6u4L8FPNLGQK.htmlThe 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 critical dialogue and discussion about poetry. If you would like to be a guest on QL: P, please contact Michael Anthony Ingram at maingr…

https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2020/0331/1127523-poetry-pandemic-coronavirus/https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/poetry-in-the-times-of-covid-19/article31163319.ecehttps://www.pittoc.com/https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/famous-lines-of-poetry-revised-for-the-age-of-coronavirushttps://www.hindustantimes.com/art-and-culture/world-poetry-day-2020-10-poets-you-must-read-during-coronavirus-self-quarantine/story-qloqtHQFfN6u4L8FPNLGQK.htmlThe 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 critical dialogue and discussion about poetry. If you would like to be a guest on QL: P, please contact Michael Anthony Ingram at maingram@gmx.com

Todd Cirillo is co-founder and editor of Six Ft. Swells Press. He is one of the originators of the After-Hours Poetry movement. Todd’s latest book is Kisses From A Straight Razor (Epic Rites Press, 2020) others include Burning the Evidence, Sucker’s Paradise, Everybody Knows the Dice Are Loaded, Still a Party, This Troubled Heart, Sexy Devils, along with ROXY, Three For the Road and Tonight, You’re Coming Home With Us which he co-authored. His poems have appeared in numerous national and international literary journals, magazines and cocktails napkins everywhere. Todd lives in New Orleans, Louisiana where he seeks out shiny moments and strange wisdom. He can be found at www.toddcirillo.com

Austin Davis is a poet and student activist currently studying creative writing at ASU. Austin is the author of THE WORLD ISN’T THE SIZE OF OUR NEIGHBORHOOD ANYMORE, which was released by Weasel Press on March 3rd, 2020. 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 critical dialogue and discussion about poetry. If you would like to be a guest on QL: P, please contact me at maingram@gmx.com.

Austin Davis is a poet and student activist currently studying creative writing at ASU. Austin is the author of THE WORLD ISN’T THE SIZE OF OUR NEIGHBORHOOD ANYMORE, which was released by Weasel Press on March 3rd, 2020. 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 critical dialogue and discussion about poetry. If you would like to be a guest on QL: P, please contact me at maingram@gmx.com.

Sophia Naz is a bilingual poet, essayist, author, editor, and translator. She has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize, in 2016 for creative nonfiction and in 2018 for poetry.  Her work features in numerous literary journals and anthologies, including Poetry International Rotterdam, The Adirondack Review,  The Wire, Chicago Quarterly Review, Blaze Vox, Scroll, The Daily O, Cafe Dissensus, Guftugu, Pratik, Gallerie International, Coldnoon, VAYAVYA, The Bangalore Review, Madras Courier, etc Her poetry collections are Peripheries (2015), Pointillism (2017) and Date Palms (2017).  Shehnaz, a biography of her mother published from Penguin Random House in November 2019. Sophia was born in Pakistan, to ethnically Indian parents and emigrated to the US in 1988.  She was undocumented for 8 years before receiving political asylum in 1996. Sophia has lived in Glen Ellen California since 2010. In 2017 she lost her home to wildfires and her latest collection of poetry, Zero Period is a medi…

Author, performer, facilitator and entrepreneur, Dinahsta Thomas, also known as Miss Kiane, loves all things artsy. A native of Queens, NY Miss Kiane was born to an African American mother and a West African father.  Consequently, Miss Kiane enjoys the benefits of a diverse and rich cultural background.  Much of which shows up in her creative writing, performances and presentations.  As a performer, Miss Kiane has shared her poetry in several venues including Busboys and Poets, Alice’s Jazz and Cultural Center, Storytellers, The Synergy Center and several faith-based settings. She is the author/producer of two chapbooks; Think on These Things and Syncopated Hearts, one CD project, Permanent Impression: Poetries & Melodies and several individually published poems. Currently, Miss Kiane enjoys hosting open mic night on the third Tuesday at the Anacostia Busboys and Poets.Miss Kiane’s love for creative expression expands to her teaching and training sessions.  Miss Kiane has taught eleme…

James Morgan-Jones was born and brought up on the Essex/London borders. His mother was Welsh and his father from the East End. He trained as a professional actor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and worked for several years in the theatre. After a serious accident he retrained as a feline behaviourist and now lives in West Wales. He began writing seriously after gaining an MA with Distinction from Trinity Saint David University inCarmarthen. He then embarked on The Glasswater Quintet, a series of supernatural/psychological novels, linked by character and place but set in different decades, from the 1940s onwards. The first book in the series, On the Edge of Wild Water, was published by Wordcatcher in the summer of 2017. This was followed by the second in the quintet, The Glass Citadel, later that year, as well as a short story collection, The Wheel and Other Stories. The third novel, The Stone Forest, was published in November 2018. The fourth in the series, Eye of…

World Poetry Day was adopted as 21 March by UNESCO in 1999. It is an invitation to reflect on the power of language and the full development of each person’s creative abilities. It also supports linguistic diversity through poetic expression and offers endangered languages the opportunity to be heard within their communities (https://globaldimension.org.uk/). Over the years, it has become the largest literary celebration in the world with schools, publishers, libraries, booksellers, and poets celebrating poetry’s vital place in our culture. This year's onbservance will feature the following celebrated poets: Indran Amirnayathagam, Christine de Luca, Jaime Manrique, Sophia Naz and Mervyn Taylor. (see biographical sketches (World Poetry Day 2020.docx). The mission of Quintessential Liste ning: 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 vehicl…

Born and raised in the DC area, Gabrielle Oliver is a first year MFA Creative Writing Poetry student at the University of Kentucky. She holds bachelor’s degrees from Howard University and Kansai Gaidai University in Osaka, Japan. A self-proclaimed linguist, Oliver is most proficient in Japanese – with her experience translating for the State Department, the Embassy of Japan, the National Cherry Blossom Festival, the Japan-America Society of Washington, DC, and for multiple DC-based newspapers – but has also studied American Sign Language (ASL), German, Dutch, Italian, and French. She was the Japan-America Society of Washington, DC’s 2018 Tanaka Green Scholarship recipient for her studies at Kansai Gaidai University, as well as for her diachronic research on the aboriginal Ainu language of Japan. This past summer of 2019, Gabrielle was awarded a writing fellowship with 7x NAACP Image Award-winning poet, Nikki Giovanni. She is currently published in the Spring 2019 issue of A Gathering …

Sharon Y. Ingram (Sistah Fire) is a native Washingtonian that has been writing poetry for 30+ years. She's a poet, playwright, event facilitator as well as a member of the Anointed Poets Empowered to Nurture Souls (P.E.N.S.) Poetry Ministry of Ebenezer A.M.E. Church. Also a 2019 World Food Day Poetry Competition Second Place Award Winner (an annual competition sponsored by the North American Liaison Office of the United Nations’Food and Agriculture Organization and Poetry X Hunger) (Dr.Hiram Larew, Founder, Poetry X Hunger). 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 critical dialogue and discussion about poetry. If you would like to be a guest on QL: P, please contact me at maingram@gmx.com.

Karla Linn Merrifield, a nine-time Pushcart-Prize nominee and National Park Artist-in-Residence, has had 800+ poems appear in dozens of journals and anthologies. She has 14 books to her credit. Following her 2018 Psyche’s Scroll (Poetry Box Select) is the newly released full-length book Athabaskan Fractal: Poems of the Far North from Cirque Press. She is currently at work on a poetry collection, My Body the Guitar, inspired by famous guitarists and their guitars; the book is slated to be published in December 2021 by Before Your Quiet Eyes Publications Holograph Series (Rochester, NY). Her Godwit: Poems of Canada (FootHills Publishing) received the Eiseman Award for Poetry. She is a frequent contributor to The Songs of Eretz Poetry Review, and assistant editor and poetry book reviewer emerita for The Centrifugal Eye. She is a member of Just Poets (Rochester, NY), the Florida State Poetry Society, the New Mexico Poetry Society, and The Author's Guild. Visit her blog, Vagabond Poet Redu…

Philip John is a Welsh poet from the Rhondda Valleys, Wales. Upon graduating from the University of South Wales in 2014, he moved across the border to Bristol, England to work within government procurement alongside serving and ex-military personnel. He secured a publishing deal with Wordcatcher Publishing and had his first book of poetry 'Home Truths' published in November 2018 which explores the human condition, human history, nature, and more specifically our treatment of the planet. Within the book, there are underlying environmental themes and a cry for change.Philip is now launching his second poetry book 'Searching for Seahorses' posing further questions about the future we are handing over to the next generation, along with some heart-warming poems about love, happiness, redemption, and the journey of life. Philip examines our relationship with nature and each other, and draws from both his upbringing in the post-mining valleys of South Wales, his move to the city and furthe…

James Steck grew up in Albany, NY and now lives in Washington, DC. He studied art for a brief period, at Virginia Tech, before pursuing a degree in English. He currently teaches high school and coaches track and field in Fairfax, Virginia. He sketches frequently, enjoys sitting on fire escapes, and shares his poetry around the city at open mics and elsewhere—most recently with Makars Open Mic Series and The Inner Loop Literary Reading Series in DC. His most recent work is forthcoming with Wordpeace. His other poetry and artwork have appeared with small press print and online journals such as Tiny Spoon Literary Magazine Issue 3, Goat’s Milk Magazine Issue 4, The Wild Word, The Odd Magazine, Unlikely Stories Mark V, and others. He hopes to publish a chapbook within the year. You can find him on Instagram@jamodsteck or on Facebook as James David.  

Heather Corbally Bryant is a Lecturer in the Writing Program at Wellesley College; previously she taught at Penn State University and Harvard College where she won awards for her teaching. She received her AB from Harvard and her PhD from the University of Michigan. Her first book, How Will the Heart Endure: Elizabeth Bowen and the Landscape of War (University of Michigan Press) won the Donald Murphy prize from the ACIS. She has published poems in The Christian Science Monitor, Sixteen, The Paddock Review, Old Frog Pond Chapbooks and in the anthologies: In Another Voice, Open-Eyed, Full-Throated: An Anthology of American/Irish Poets (Dublin: Arlen House, 2019) Cheap Grace, her first chapbook was published by the Finishing Line Press. Her second collection of poems, Lottery Ticket, was published in 2013 by the Parallel Press Series of the University of Wisconsin Libraries-Madison. Her third chapbook, Compass Rose, appeared in 2015 from The Finishing Line Press. My Wedding Dress, her fi…

Brian Rihlmann was born in New Jersey and currently resides in Reno, Nevada. He writes free verse poetry, and has been published in The Blue Nib, The American Journal of Poetry, Cajun Mutt Press, The Rye Whiskey Review, and others. His first poetry collection, “Ordinary Trauma,” (2019) was published by Alien Buddha Press.The primary 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.

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 2019Writer's BiographyPearl 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 …

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…