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bes is the nom de guerre of a poetperformer, transdisciplinary researcher, conscientious creator and advocate for civil and human rights. Currently Washington, D.C.based, bes began collaborating with Art Is Dead (A.I.D.), an Istanbul-rooted “art and non-art formation” while living in Turkey in her early-mid twenties. Her poetry attempts to scrape the borderlands of memoir, activism, and antropoesía (Resato 2013), verse with an ethnographic sensibility. Arab American poetry and the Beat movement are important strands of influence in her thematic and stylistic tendencies. Involvements in choral and vocal performance, theatre and competitive creative writing and public speaking from an early age inform her poetic praxis today. Recently, bes has shared her work at open mics hosted by Muslim Writers Collective- D.C. (May 2019),  D.C. Guerilla Poets Insurgency (February, March, April, May, June) and Istanbul Spoken Word (October, November 2018) and supplied extended vocal improv in a free j…

Corey Veraceouz Houser is a 36 years old actor, author, father, poet, singer, songwriter, pianist, and a producer from Santee, SC and resides in Atlanta, GA. The word "Veraceouz" means representing or speaking the truth. Ever since 13 years old Veraceouz has been expressing his feelings through his art. Veraceouz's art comes from deep within his soul. It's deeper than the art, it's about helping one another, helping our people to reach their full potential, building a relationship with God, and making a difference in the world.

The Episode is PrerecordedYvonne 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.comPrior 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 Communit…

Gregory Luce is the author of the chapbooks Signs of Small Grace (Pudding House Publications) and Drinking Weather (Finishing Line Press), the collection Memory and Desire (Sweatshoppe Publications), and the chapbook Tile, (Finishing Line). His poems have appeared in numerous print and online journals, including Kansas Quarterly, Cimarron Review, Innisfree Poetry Review, Northern Virginia Review, Foundling Review, MiPOesias, Little Patuxent Review, Words Dance, Rising Tide Review, Wordgathering, Faircloth Review, Broadkill Review, Bourgeon, Deaf Poets Society, Maryland Poetry Review, Mile Nine, and in the anthologies Living in Storms (Eastern Washington University Press), Bigger Than They Appear (Accents Publishing), and Unrequited: An Anthology of Love Poems about Inanimate Objects. In 2014, he was awarded the Larry Neal Award for adult poetry by the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities. He is retired from the National Geographic Society, volunteers as a writing tutor/mentor fo…

I grew up partly in central California—where I still have family --and partly in Pittsburgh—where I had my first fantastic poetry teacher. I’ve lived in the Washington, DC area, my chosen home, for most of my life. Studying poetry at George Mason University, where I got my MFA around 1990, was a joyful experience of immersion in writing. In 1992, my first book of poetry Only The Raw Hands Are Heaven won the Washington Writers Publishing House competition, bringing me into another writing community. My other books are In Yolo County and She Was a Cathedral, a collection of poems about remarkable women (Finishing Line Press). My poetry, fiction, book reviews, articles, and interviews have been published in Virginia Quarterly Review, Poet Lore, Colorado Review, Potomac Review, Grist, Sojourners, and many other magazines, and anthologies, and I’m a former poetry editor of Phoebe magazine. I now work as an editor with Educational Leadership magazine.

Dominique Jones is renaissance artist from Rochester, MN who avidly performs in theatre, poetry, dance, and music. He has been writing poetry for about ten years and in that time has won two local poetry slams and was published in an anthology in 2009. He also has had the opportunity to share his poems of growth, resilience, and perspective with audiences of both youth and adults alike. First broadcast on 6/11/2018.The primary mission of Quintessential Listening: Poetry is to provide a live format for 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. TMusic by Kevin MacLeod, Lino Rise, Longzihun and Jessica Yip

Brianna strongly believes that the most effective leadership is through service, getting to know people on a profound level and recognizing humanity in everyone. Poetry for Brianna is a tool to hold a mirror to society, and to herself, to show not what is right or wrong, but what is - and let the people determine what they feel are injustices. Poetry is also a medicine for whenever her soul hurts and needs to heal, or whenever she wishes to heal others. Currently, she works at IH as a creative data analyst, primarily working in Python to automate the data infrastructure. She volunteers as a Python Lead for Women Who Code DC to empower women in the tech industry, and as a Tech Instructor for Black Girls Code to inspire youth of color to be curious and excited about more inclusive technology. She also teaches modern dance at Capitol Hill Arts Workshop to encourage youth to strengthen their creative movement and expression, and she does open mics to listen to the community, and to keep h…

John Patrick Robbins is the editor of The Rye Whiskey Review, Under The Bleachers and Drinkers Only. He is also the author of three books. Smoking At The Gas Pumps and Once Upon A Nervous Breakdown from Soma Publishing. Sex Drugs & Poetry from Whiskey City Press.His publications include:Ariel Chart, Mojave River Review, San Pedro River Review, Red Fez, Piker Press, Punk Noir Magazine, Angry Old Man Magazine, Horror Sleaze Trash, The Dope Fiend Daily, Outlaw Poetry Network, Five Two Poetry, Blue Pepper, Blognostics, Romingos Porch.He is also a co-host of Guest Haus with Mark Antony Rossi. On the Strength To Be Human Podcast.His work is always unfiltered.

Aaron R., also known as - Aaron R The Poet - writes poetry and also produces and directs short poem films. Poetry is a way to express real-life situations in a way that all people can relate to using a myriad of topics. Aaron R was the winner of first ever World Food Day poetry competition organized by Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Aaron R has also had poems featured in books on social justice. Aaron R also has a book Poetically Correct Volume 1 available on Amazon.com and iTunes. Aaron can be reached at aaronRpoems.com.J.Swann aka Blackswann and is a Rap Artist/Poet from Baltimore MD. He's been doing music for years, performing out of state in different cities. Not too long ago, he won a Caribbean open mic contest in Philadelphia. And right now he is working on his BlackSwann album which will be available in early April.Rebecca, a Louisiana native, is an educator, photographer, PhD student, and award-winning poet whose writing, performance, and contribution to the poet…

Kim D. Bailey is a 2016 Pushcart Nominee for nonfiction, and 2018 Best of the Net Nominee for poetry. Currently, she works as a paid reviewer for Carpe Librum books and does some freelance work on the side. She is published in several online and print journals and in audio, including but not limited to Firefly Magazine, Tuck Magazine, Drunk Monkeys, The Scarlet Leaf Review, Writer's Digest, Anti Heroine Chic, Sick Lit, The Song Is, Indigent Press, The 52 Men Podcast, and Tupelo Press. Kim was a columnist for Five 2 One Literary Magazine from June 2016 to October 2017, writing to Breaking the Legacy of Silence. She has also held editorial positions with Firefly Magazine and Sick Lit Magazine. At the moment, Kim is taking her creativity a day at a time and is compiling a memoir as well as poems for a chapbook. She lives in Pennsylvania with her husband and two dogs. You can find her work mostly compiled at Kim D. Bailey. www.kimbaileyspradlin.com

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 primary mission of Quintessential Listening: Poetry is to provide a live format for 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 the art and craft of poetry.

Valeri Beers is from Bangor, Maine. Her first book of poems titled ...details... published by Thomas Hill Publishing. This is her second poetry book titled "Scratching The Surface", published by Underground Writer's Association.  She has been writing all her life and is inspired to write by listening to music and needing to remember things. Valeri has been published in a number of literary magazines including anthologies by Literature Today, Lit House, The Wicked, Poets of Maine, Qutub Minar Review, Clockwise Rain, Literature Today (Vol. 1-7), Our Day of Passing, Dandelion in a Vase of Roses and Poetry Pasta  She has links to her poems on her own poetry site: wordsoftheval2000.wordpress.com. You can also connect with her on Facebook (Valeri Beers) and Twitter (@theval2000)She has been a guest poet on the DC Poetry Project's Power of Poetics Blogtalk Radio show, talking all things poetic and reading her own poems. Valeri also helps take poetic care of Poetry Pasta (www.poetrypasta.wo…

Writer'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 their rebellious daughter. I also wrote of…

In celebration of National Women's History Month, the Blogtalk Radio program Quintessential Listening: Poetry presents HERSTORY. Noted poets Francine Montemurro, Pamela L. Taylor, and Lynne Spigelmire Viti will read from their works during the broadcast.Francine Montemurro was born in Yonkers, NY, grew up in Hastings-on-Hudson, and has lived hither and yon. Her poems have appeared in the Paterson Literary Review, and have been on exhibit at Boston City Hall. She’s read her poems in and around Boston where she currently lives, works, and spends time with many friends, human and canine, real and imaginary.Pamela L. Taylor is a data guru by day and a poet by night. Pamela’s first chapbook of poetry, My Mother’s Child, was published by Hyacinth Girl Press (2015). Her recent work has appeared in The Adirondack Review and Atlas and Alice. When Pamela is not working or writing, she’s dancing Argentine tango in the Boston area. Her blog, A Poet's Double Life, focuses on balancing poetry w…

POV: Points of View in Poetry, with Tzynya Pinchback, Jackie Oldham, and Lynne Viti The best poetry grows out of the poet’s unique and personal point of view, whether the subject matter be nature, human relationships, personal challenges, or politics. Each one of tonight’s   guests on Quintessential Poetry writes in a strong personal voice, expressing her deepest feelings and insights into her world.As you hear each poem, listen for the speaker’s Point of View: the author’s personality and character filtering her experiences and observations about the stuff of daily life—picking blueberries, sorting old family photos, watching snow accumulate on the driveway, experiencing anger and frustration at the day’s news headlines.  Other poems dig even deeper, when the poet writes life’s milestones and stages— falling in or out of love, dropping a child off at college for the first time, enduring a challenging medical treatment, grieving the death of a parent or beloved friend.So tonight…

Ahmad Al-Khatat, was born in Baghdad, Iraq on May 8th. He has been published in several press publications and anthologies all over the world and has poems translated in several languages. He has published two poetry books “The Bleeding Heart Poet” and “Love On The War’s Frontline” which are available on Amazon. Most of his new and old poems are also available on his official Facebook page Bleeding Heart Poet on Facebook.The mission of Quintessential Listening: Poetry is to provide a forum to examine topical events and contemporary issues through the power of poetry. Hosted by Dr. Michael Anthony Ingram, the live format offers poets and spoken word artists opportunities to either showcase their own poetry or the works of others. The show also offers poets the freedom to give voice as well as bear witness to the social, cultural, racial, political, health, global, gender, economic and environmental issues that affect all of our lives. 

Octaviano Merecias-Cuevas hails from Portland, Oregon. He is a spoken word artist, visual storyteller, and tri-lingual writer. Octaviano has presented and published his work in Mexico and the US. He writes in Mixteco, Spanish and English about contemporary issues affecting/shaping the Latino/Xicano/Hispanic/Indigenous experience in the US. Octaviano is also a motivational speaker, photographic artist, and educator, who works with a socially-engaged and social-emotional brain-targeted practices facilitating workshops, talks, discussion, forums, conferences, collaboratories with groups in the US and abroad. Octaviano spends most of his free time, volunteering as a mentor, participant or advisor in commissions, boards, campaigns and organizations that represent values of unity, healing, diversity, equity, inclusion, arts, culture and belonging. Mr. Merecias-Cuevas utilizes the latest research information on cognitive-behavioral neuroscience to inform and complement the deliverance of h…

Linda Imbler is the author of three published poetry collections, "Big Questions, Little Sleep,"  "Lost and Found," and "The Sea’s Secret Song" which is an e-book published by Soma Publishing. Her new e-book "Pairings" is now available. It is also to be published by Soma Publishing. "Pairings" is a collection of short fiction pieces and each story is loosely coupled with one of Linda’s poems. Since writing her first poem for publication almost four years ago, she has had her poetry and short fiction published in numerous national and international journals and dozens of anthologies. In addition to putting pen and paper to inventive use, Linda is an avid reader and budding illustrator, Yoga and Tai Chi practitioner, stargazer, and classical guitar player. She lives in Wichita, Kansas with her husband, Mike the Luthier, several quite intelligent saltwater fish, and an ever-growing family of gorgeous guitars which she helps Mike build. She feels honored and very humbled to have been nomi…

Bio:Jerry Brunoe, a Wasco, was raised on the Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon. He briefly and sporadically attended Oregon State University. His poetry has appeared in multiple literary magazines. He pretends to know what he is doing at Toe Good.Toe Good:www.toegood.comToe Good publishes artists dedicated to their craft and seeks work from underrepresented artists of all genres.Music by Kevin MacLeod and Lino RiseThe mission of Quintessential Listening: Poetry is to provide a forum to examine topical events and contemporary issues through the power of poetry. Hosted by Dr. Michael Anthony Ingram, the live format offers poets and spoken word artists opportunities to either showcase their own poetry or the works of others. The show also offers poets the freedom to give voice as well as bear witness to the social, cultural, racial, political, health, global, gender, economic and environmental issues that affect all of our lives.

Ryan Quinn Flanagan is a Canadian-born author presently residing in Elliot Lake, Ontario, Canada with his wife and many bears that rifle through his garbage. He is a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominated writer whose work has been translated into both Italian and Bangla. His work can be found both in print and online in such places as: The New York Quarterly, Evergreen Review, Ariel Chart, Cultural Weekly, This Song Is..., Ramingo's Porch, Setu, The Rye Whiskey Review, Outlaw Poetry Network, Under The Bleachers, Hidden Constellation, PPP Ezine, The Dope Fiend Daily, Poetry Bulawayo (Zimbabwe), Our Poetry Archive, The Australia Times Poetry and The Oklahoma Review.  He is the author of almost 50 books of poetry, the latest of which are: Tiger in the Tall Grass, Panthers in the Street from Leaf Garden Press, Once Around the Maypole, Twice Around the Sun from Marathon Books, Return to Vegas Poems from Alien Buddha Press, Poems to Knock the Sun Out of the Sky from Pski's Porch, In …

Clif Collins was an English professor at Montgomery College, Rockville, MD. He taught at the college for 25 years. In 2017, he wrote the book "Lives of the Apostles." The book (available on Amazon), encompasses themes of grief, loss, betrayal, coming of age, endurance, and love (in its various forms). Further, it examines the momentary circumstances of everyday people as they try to connect with life in the modern age. Friends and colleagues of Clif's will salute his poetic legacy by reading from “Lives of the Apostles.” 

Heather Corbally Bryant teaches in the Writing Program at Wellesley College. She has taught at the Pennsylvania State University, the University of Michigan, and Harvard College where she won awards for her teaching. She received her A.B. with honors in History and Literature from Harvard. She received her PhD in Literature from the University of Michigan. Her academic publications include, How Will the Heart Endure: Elizabeth Bowen and the Landscape of War (University of Michigan Press, 1992). It was awarded the Murphy Prize for best first book. In 2018, she published her work of creative nonfiction, You Can’t Wrap Fire in Paper, which explores her grandmother’s years as a journalist in Shanghai during the 1920s. Since 2011 she has published six books of poetry with the Finishing Line Press: Cheap Grace, Compass Rose, My Wedding Dress, Thunderstorm, Eve’s Lament, and James Joyce’s Water Closet (forthcoming). The Parallel Press Poetry Series of the University of Wisconsin at Madison p…

Aaron R also known as - Aaron R The Poet - writes poetry and also produces and directs short poem films. Poetry is a way to express real life situations in a way that all people can relate to using a myriad of topics. Aaron R was the winner of first ever World Food Day poetry competition organized by Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Aaron R has also had poems featured in books on social justice. Aaron R also has a book Poetically Correct Volume 1 available on Amazon.com and iTunes. Aaron can be reached at aaronRpoems.com.The mission of Quintessential Listening: Poetry is to provide a forum to examine topical events and contemporary issues through the power of poetry. Hosted by Dr. Michael Anthony Ingram, the live format offers poets and spoken word artists opportunities to either showcase their own poetry or the works of others. The show also offers poets the freedom to give voice as well as bear witness to the social, cultural, racial, political, health, global, gender, eco…

Claudine Nash lives and writes in New York. She obtained a B.A. in English and Psychology from Wesleyan University and later went on to obtain two master’s degrees and a Ph.D. in Psychology from Connecticut College and St. John's University. Heavily influenced by her background in psychology, her poetry frequently delves into such topics as loss, healing and the liberation of releasing the past. Her most recent writings have focused on the power of connecting to our authentic selves and true inner voice.Her collections include her full-length poetry books The Wild Essential (Aldrich Press/Kelsay Books, 2017) and Parts per Trillion (Aldrich Press, 2016) as well as her chapbook The Problem with Loving Ghosts (Finishing Line Press, 2014). She also edited an anthology of writing by people living with mental illness entitled Destigmatized: Voices for Change (Madness Muse Press, 2017), as well as the book In So Many Words: Interviews and Poetry from Today’s Poets (Madness Muse Press, 2016…