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Larew's work has appeared most recently in Little Patuxent Review, Contemporary American Voices, FORTH vox poetica, Poetry Super Highway, Poets & Artists, Every Day Poems, Lunaris Review (Nigeria), Amsterdam Quarterly, and The Wild Word. His fourth collection is due out this year from Foothills Publishing House. He’s been nominated for four Pushcarts, is a member of the Shakespeare Folger Library’s poetry board, and organizes several events in Prince George’s County, MD and beyond including Poetry X Hunger and The Poetry Poster Project. He is a global hunger specialist, and lives in UpperMarlboro, MD ... and he’s very, very short. On Facebook at Hiram Larew, Poet.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 al…

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. Tonight's open mic call-in show features the work of poet Ann Christine Tabaka. Ann Christine Tabaka has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize in Poetry, has been internationally published, and won poetry awards from numerous publications. She lives in Delaware, USA.  She loves gardening and cooking.  Chris lives with her husband and three cats. Her most recent credits are: Pomona Valley Review, Page & Spine, West Texas Literary Review, The Hungry Chimera, Sheila-Na-Gig…

Lisa Stice is a poet/mother/military spouse, the author of two poetry collections Permanent Change of Station (Middle West Press, 2018) and Uniform (Aldrich Press, 2016), and a Pushcart Prize nominee. She volunteers as a mentor with the Veterans Writing Project, as an associate poetry editor with 1932 Quarterly, and as a contributor for The Military Spouse Book Review. You can learn more about her publications at https://lisastice.wordpress.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, economic and environmental issues that affect all of our lives. 

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, 20…

Catfish McDaris’ best readings were in Paris at the Shakespeare and Co. Bookstore and with Jimmy"the ghost of Hendrix"Spencer in NYC on 42nd St. He’s done over 20 chaps in the last 25 years. He’s been in the New York Quarterly, Slipstream, Pearl, Main St. Rag, Café Review, Chiron Review, Zen Tattoo, Wormwood Review, Great Weather For Media, Silver Birch Press, Mas Tequila Review, and Graffiti and been nominated for 15 Pushcarts, Best of Net in 2010 and 2013, he won the Uprising Award in 1999, and won the Flash Fiction Contest judged by the U.S. Poet Laureate in 2009. Also in The Louisiana Review, George Mason Univ.Press, and New Coin from Rhodes Univ. in South Africa. He’s recently been translated into Spanish, Italian, French, Polish, Swedish, Arabic, Mandarin, Bengali, Yoruba, Tagalog, and Esperanto. His 25 years of published material is in the Special Archives Collection at Marquette Univ. in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Luis Fermin was born in Pensacola, FL, March 25, 1987, to a White-American mother and a Dominican father. They divorced when he was 2 years old. Subsequently, he and his mom moved back to the United States. His creative writing actually started in elementary school, where artistic expression was strongly encouraged. There he remembers writing several short stories (generally about himself and his friends having superpowers and fighting bad guys) and developing a comedic comic book series. In middle school, he came up with a few ideas for sci-fi novels but never got past writing the first couple of paragraphs for any of them. From there on, his creative writing pretty much went dormant. It wasn't until he was around 20 years old that he started writing creatively again, this time with the desire to work towards becoming a professional rapper. Luis’ unique performance style is the culmination of all of his experiences. He is unparalleled in terms of memorization, rhythmic technique, and…

Lynne Spigelmire Viti was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland. She is a lecturer emerita in the Writing Program at Wellesley College. A graduate of Mercy High School in Baltimore, she attended the College of Notre Dame of Maryland, and received her B.A.cum laude in English Literature from Barnard College. After teaching high school English for several years in Stamford, Connecticut and Brookline, Massachusetts, she earned her Ph.D. and J.D. from Boston College.Viti has authored numerous academic articles on legal topics, composition theory and, literature and media. Her first chapbook, Baltimore Girls, was published in March, 2017, and her second collection, The Glamorganshire Bible, in 2018 (both from Finishing Line Press). She is also the author of a poetry microchapbook, (Origami Poems Project 2017). Her poetry, nonfiction and fiction has appeared in over a hundred online and print journals and anthologies, including The Wire: Urban Decay and American Television (2009),The Balti…

Bill Cushing lived in various states, the Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico before moving to California. As an undergrad, he was called the “blue collar” poet by classmates at the University of Central Florida because of his years in the Navy and later as an electrician on oil tankers, fishing boats, and other naval vessels before returning to college at 37. Earning an MFA in writing from Goddard College in Vermont, he now teaches at East Los Angeles and Mt. San Antonio colleges.Bill has been published in various literary journals, magazines, and newspapers, including The San Juan Star and the Florida Times-Union. His short stories have appeared in Borfski Press, Newtown Literary Journal and Sediments. Bill’s poetry has been in numerous journals, both in print and online, including Avocet, Brownstone Review, Glomag, Mayo Review, Penumbra, Poetry Nook, Spectrum, The Song Is. . ., and West Trade Review. He had poems (one a Pushcart Prize nominee) in both volumes of the award-winning Sto…

A.S. Coomer is a writer and musician. His work has appeared in over fifty literary magazine, journals, & the like. Novels include Rush's Deal, The Fetishists, Shining the Light, & The Devil's Gospel (forthcoming). He runs Lost, Long Gone, Forgotten Records, a "record label" for poetry. He co-edits Cocklebur Press, an independent micro-press for poetry. Five of his original compositions, as recorded live with cellist Sara Gibson, are featured in the Museum of Americana's American Songbook. His poem, I'm not sure how I feel about the sound, won the 2016/17 Thelma Prize, which was judged by Catfish McDaris. He's been nominated for a Pushcart Prize three times. www.ascoomer.com  

Marianne Szlyk is a professor of English and Reading at Montgomery College and was a member of the DC Poetry Project.  She also edits The Song Is... a blog-zine for poetry and prose inspired by music (especially jazz), and she belongs to the DC Poetry Spot and the DC Poetry Magic Theater.  This summer she and her husband started It Takes A Community! Poetry Workshop at Montgomery College Rockville.  Her first chapbook, Listening to Electric Cambodia, Looking up at Trees of Heaven, is available online at Kind of a Hurricane Press.  Her second chapbook, I Dream of Empathy, is available on Amazon.  Her poems have appeared in Scarlet Leaf Review, of/with, bird's thumb, Cactifur, Mad Swirl, Setu, Solidago, Red Bird Chapbook's Weekly Read, and Resurrection of a Sunflower, an anthology of work responding to Vincent Van Gogh's art.  Her full-length book, On the Other Side of the Window, is now available from Pski's Porch and Amazon.  She invites you to stop by her blog-zine and perhaps even s…

The mission of the Quintessential Listening: Poetry (QL: P) Blogtalk Radio Show is to provide a forum for poets and spoken word artists opportunities to showcase their work or the work of others. Poems of all different types, genres, as well as themes are welcome. The live episode will be beamed to an international audience.  If you would like to be a guest on QL: P, please email Dr. Michael Anthony Ingram (host) at maingram@gmx.com or call (202)-540-0327 for more information. The podcast of the show will also air on other streaming networks. 

QL:P Special Guest: Avis D. Matthews The constant themes of my life have been family, music, and words.I am the second of four children and part of two pretty large, close-knit families who are several generations deep in the African-American communities of Prince George’s County, Maryland. My early exposure to, and love of, poetry came partly through songs – the hymns I heard in church; the popular songs played on the radio; as well as the collection of jazz, sacred, R&B, and musical theater recordings my parents had in our home.There were always books at home, including old textbooks, the World Book encyclopedia, some African-American biographies, and -- the one that stands out in my memory -- the Book of American Negro Poetry, which was edited by James Weldon Johnson and first published in 1922. I had learned about some of these poets during Negro History Week in school, so the book had an aura of importance to it. I imagined it contained not only the thought of great b…

The mission of Quintessential Listening: Poetry is to provide a forum to examine topical events and contemporary issues through the power of poetry. The live format offers poets and spoken word artists opportunities to showcase their own poetry and/or the works of others. The program also serves as a safe space for artists, 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. Special Guest: Jerry Brunoe. Bio:Jerry Brunoe, a Wasco, was raised on the Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon. He attended Oregon State University briefly and sporadically. His poetry has appeared in multiple literary magazines. He pretends to know what 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 Rise 

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 showcase their own poetry and/or the works of others, and 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. Special guest will be noted poet: Dominique Jones aka Xenameir. Dominique Jones is renaissance artist from Rochester, MN who avidly performs in theatre, poetry, dance, and music. He has been writing poetryfor 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 sharehis poems of growth, resilience, and perspective with audiences of both youth and adults alike.Music by Kevin MacLeod, Lino Rise, Longzihun and Jessica Y…

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 showcase their own poetry and/or the works of others, and 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. Special guest will be acclaimed poet and activist Luis Fermin.  Luis was born in Pensacola, FL, March 25, 1987, to a White-American mother and a Dominican father. They divorced when he was 2 years old. Subsequently, he and his mom moved back to the United States. His creative writing actually started in elementary school, where artistic expression was strongly encouraged. There he remembers writing several short stories (generally about himself and his friends having superpowers and fighting bad guys) and d…

Heather Corbally Bryant teaches in the Writing Program at Wellesley College. She went to Harvard College and received her PhD at the University of Michigan. She has taught at Harvard, University of Michigan, and Penn State where she won awards for her teaching. She has written extensively on Elizabeth Bowen, and is the author of ten books of poetry; her poems have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize; one of her chapbooks won honorable mention in the Open Chapbook competition of the Finishing Line Press.

The Universal Power of Poetry: A Conversation with Laura GrevelJoin host Dr. Michael Anthony Ingram as he inaugurates the newly rebranded Quintessential Poetry platform with acclaimed poet and spoken word artist Laura Grevel. In this episode, Laura shares profound insights from her extensive life across five different countries. Delving into her poetic influences, the importance of capturing human stories, and the themes that drive her work, Laura reads a variety of her poetic pieces. Topics range from migration and identity to politics and nature. Additionally, she discusses the unique power of poetry to inspire empathy, touching on her personal experiences and the universal emotions encapsulated within her words. Listen as they explore the essence of poetry, its ability to convey deep human truths, and Laura's fascinating journey as a poet.00:00 Introduction to Quintessential Poetry00:52 Interview with Laura Greville: A Journey Through Poetry02:17 Je Suis Frau Spaghetti: A Poe…

Join host, Dr. Michael Anthony Ingram, for the first Quintessential Poetry Book Club discussion featuring renowned poet and peace advocate Kolawole Alatishe. In this episode, Kolawole shares readings from his impactful poetry collection 'Human Togetherness,' which delves into themes of global unity, hope, and moral development. Through powerful verses, Kolawole addresses significant issues such as poverty, climate change, social injustice, and the importance of community. Additionally, Wale discusses his personal journey, the role of poetry in bridging cultural divides, and his vision for future works. Discover how poetry can be a transformative force as Kolawole Alatishe and Dr. Ingram explore the essence and potential of poetic expression.00:00 Introduction to Quintessential Poetry00:46 Meet the Renowned Poet: Kolawole Alatishe01:29 Poetry Reading: Human Togetherness02:42 Poetry Reading: Who is This New Light?03:36 Poetry Reading: Kolawole's Evolution04:24 Poetry Reading: Wit…

Join host, Dr. Michael Anthony Ingram, for the first Quintessential Poetry Book Club discussion featuring renowned poet and peace advocate Kolawole Alatishe. In this episode, Kolawole shares readings from his impactful poetry collection 'Human Togetherness,' which delves into themes of global unity, hope, and moral development. Through powerful verses, Kolawole addresses significant issues such as poverty, climate change, social injustice, and the importance of community. Additionally, Wale discusses his personal journey, the role of poetry in bridging cultural divides, and his vision for future works. Discover how poetry can be a transformative force as Kolawole Alatishe and Dr. Ingram explore the essence and potential of poetic expression.00:00 Introduction to Quintessential Poetry00:46 Meet the Renowned Poet: Kolawole Alatishe01:29 Poetry Reading: Human Togetherness02:42 Poetry Reading: Who is This New Light?03:36 Poetry Reading: Kolawole's Evolution04:24 Poetry Reading: Wit…

The Universal Power of Poetry: A Conversation with Laura GrevelJoin host Dr. Michael Anthony Ingram as he inaugurates the newly rebranded Quintessential Poetry platform with acclaimed poet and spoken word artist Laura Grevel. In this episode, Laura shares profound insights from her extensive life across five different countries. Delving into her poetic influences, the importance of capturing human stories, and the themes that drive her work, Laura reads a variety of her poetic pieces. Topics range from migration and identity to politics and nature. Additionally, she discusses the unique power of poetry to inspire empathy, touching on her personal experiences and the universal emotions encapsulated within her words. Listen as they explore the essence of poetry, its ability to convey deep human truths, and Laura's fascinating journey as a poet.00:00 Introduction to Quintessential Poetry00:52 Interview with Laura Greville: A Journey Through Poetry02:17 Je Suis Frau Spaghetti: A Poe…

Join host, Dr. Michael Anthony Ingram, for the first Quintessential Poetry Book Club discussion featuring renowned poet and peace advocate Kolawole Alatishe. In this episode, Kolawole shares readings from his impactful poetry collection 'Human Togetherness,' which delves into themes of global unity, hope, and moral development. Through powerful verses, Kolawole addresses significant issues such as poverty, climate change, social injustice, and the importance of community. Additionally, Wale discusses his personal journey, the role of poetry in bridging cultural divides, and his vision for future works. Discover how poetry can be a transformative force as Kolawole Alatishe and Dr. Ingram explore the essence and potential of poetic expression.00:00 Introduction to Quintessential Poetry00:46 Meet the Renowned Poet: Kolawole Alatishe01:29 Poetry Reading: Human Togetherness02:42 Poetry Reading: Who is This New Light?03:36 Poetry Reading: Kolawole's Evolution04:24 Poetry Reading: Wit…

The Universal Power of Poetry: A Conversation with Laura GrevelJoin host Dr. Michael Anthony Ingram as he inaugurates the newly rebranded Quintessential Poetry platform with acclaimed poet and spoken word artist Laura Grevel. In this episode, Laura shares profound insights from her extensive life across five different countries. Delving into her poetic influences, the importance of capturing human stories, and the themes that drive her work, Laura reads a variety of her poetic pieces. Topics range from migration and identity to politics and nature. Additionally, she discusses the unique power of poetry to inspire empathy, touching on her personal experiences and the universal emotions encapsulated within her words. Listen as they explore the essence of poetry, its ability to convey deep human truths, and Laura's fascinating journey as a poet.00:00 Introduction to Quintessential Poetry00:52 Interview with Laura Greville: A Journey Through Poetry02:17 Je Suis Frau Spaghetti: A Poe…

Exploring the Power of Poetry with Kolawole Alatishe: A Quintessential Poetry Book Club DiscussionJoin host, Dr. Michael Anthony Ingram, for the first Quintessential Poetry Book Club discussion featuring renowned poet and peace advocate Kolawole Alatishe. In this episode, Kolawole shares readings from his impactful poetry collection 'Human Togetherness,' which delves into themes of global unity, hope, and moral development. Through powerful verses, Kolawole addresses significant issues such as poverty, climate change, social injustice, and the importance of community. Additionally, Wale discusses his personal journey, the role of poetry in bridging cultural divides, and his vision for future works. Discover how poetry can be a transformative force as Kolawole Alatishe and Dr. Ingram explore the essence and potential of poetic expression.00:00 Introduction to Quintessential Poetry00:46 Meet the Renowned Poet: Kolawole Alatishe01:29 Poetry Reading: Human Togetherness02:42 Poetry …

Ahmad Al-Khatat was born in Baghdad, Iraq. His work has appeared in print and online journals globally and has poems translated into several languages. He has been nominated for Best of the Net 2018. He is the author of The Bleeding Heart Poet, Love On The War’s Frontline, Gas Chamber, Wounds from Iraq, Roofs of Dreams, The Grey Revolution, and Noemi & Lips of Sweetness. He lives in Montreal, Canada.