Roberto Garcia reads from his new book [Elegies] and talks about his identity and heritage, the power of grandmothers, the writing advice he always gives his students, and much more. He and host Charlie Rossiter also dig into the controversy that lead to Amiri Baraka's removal as New Jersey State Poet Laureate after Garcia reads his poem "Note to AB, A Boogeyman." Find Garcia's book [Elegies] from Flower Song Press, here: https://www.flowersongpress.com/books-1/p/elegies SUBMIT TO THE OPEN MIC OF THE AIR! www.poetryspokenhere.com/open-mic-of-the-air Visit our website: www.poetryspokenhere.com Like us on facebook: facebook.com/PoetrySpokenHere Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/poseyspokenhere (@poseyspokenhere) Send us an e-mail: poetryspokenhere@gmail.com

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Episode #151 Roberto Garcia

In 2020, Poetry Spoken Here produced more episodes than ever, had more downloads than ever, launched a special project - the Open Mic of the Air - and continued to feature poets from around the world in episodes that came out every other week, and sometimes more often. Here's a look back on some of the poets interviewed in 2020. Of course, we encourage you to go back and check out not only the rest of the episodes that came out in 2020 but the rest of our 149 episode archive! Dean Rader, Co-Editpr of Native Voices: Indigenous American Poetry, Craft and Conversations (PSH 115) https://soundcloud.com/poetry-spoken-here/episode-115-dean-rader-co-editor-of-native-voices-anthology Sheryl Noethe (PSH 136) https://soundcloud.com/poetry-spoken-here/episode-136-sheryl-noethe-and-mayor-ras-baraka Camille Guthrie (PSH 117) https://soundcloud.com/poetry-spoken-here/episode-117-camille-guthrie Nicole Santalucia (PSH 126) https://soundcloud.com/poetry-spoken-here/episode-126-nicole-santalucia Peace Akintade, Youth Poet Laureate of Saskatchewan(PSH 137) https://soundcloud.com/poetry-spoken-here/episode-137-peace-akintade-and-sask-poetry Christopher Benson (PSH 139) https://soundcloud.com/poetry-spoken-here/episode-139-christopher-benson Luis J. Rodriguez Reading at the Unamuno Author Festival (PSH 144) https://soundcloud.com/poetry-spoken-here/episode-144-luis-j-rodriguez-reading-at-the-unamuno-author-festival jessica Care moore (PSH 146) https://soundcloud.com/poetry-spoken-here/episode-146-jessica-care-moore SUBMIT TO THE OPEN MIC OF THE AIR! www.poetryspokenhere.com/open-mic-of-the-air Visit our website: www.poetryspokenhere.com Like us on facebook: facebook.com/PoetrySpokenHere Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/poseyspokenhere (@poseyspokenhere) Send us an e-mail: poetryspokenhere@gmail.com

Episode #150 2020: The Poetry Spoken Here Retrospective

Clint Bruce talks about his new book Afro-Creole Poetry from Louisiana's Radical Civil War Era Newspapers. The book is full pf poetry and history with lessons that reach through to the present. Bruce dug into two papers founded during the Civil War by free people of color in New Orleans. Bruce reads poems from the book and illuminates often overlooked events from the Reconstruction Era including the New Orleans massacre. His discovery of newspaper records on the massacre's aftermath, previously thought to have vanished, show a different history - and one closer to the truth - than that presented in most media coverage from the time. Get a copy of Afro-Creole Poetry in French from Louisiana's Radical Civil War Era Newspapers, here: https://www.hnoc.org/publications/books/afro-creole-poetry SUBMIT TO THE OPEN MIC OF THE AIR! www.poetryspokenhere.com/open-mic-of-the-air Visit our website: www.poetryspokenhere.com Like us on facebook: facebook.com/PoetrySpokenHere Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/poseyspokenhere (@poseyspokenhere) Send us an e-mail: poetryspokenhere@gmail.com

Episode #149 Clint Bruce: Afro-Creole Poetry in French from Radical Civil War–Era Newspapers

The Open Mic of the Air is a project from Poetry Spoken Here begun in March of 2020. Since most in-person poetry events are suspended due to coronavirus, this is a way for poets from around the world to connect and have a creative outlet. We are also eager to receive and share poems inspired by the nation-wide protests against police brutality and in support of black lives. This is the ninth episode of the Open Mic of the Air featuring poets from around the world - Czech Republic and India - as well as from across the United States. Give a listen and submit your work for the next episode! Send a recording - 5 mins or less - of yourself reading one of your poems, including your name and location, to openmicoftheair@gmail.com. For full submission guidelines, check out: www.poetryspokenhere.com/open-mic-of-the-air Zack Rogow, San Francisco, California — “For Chaim Soutine” Sophia Behal, Czech Republic — “The Survivor” Tanvi Gaurav Srivastava, India — “Mask” Gabriella Brand, New Haven, Connecticut — “Socks” Sarenity Naber, Modesto, California — "Life of Scars” Christine O. Adler, Westchester County, New York — “Unearthed” Ilizibith Summerhalder, Provo, Utah – “Forgiveness” M.L. Woldman, Austin, Texas – “Everything is a Library” Mariam Sagan, Santa Fe, New Mexico – “Pluto: Ambivalence” Tricia Park, Chicago, Illinois – “Korean Love: The Untranslatable Concept of 'Jung'” SUBMIT TO THE OPEN MIC OF THE AIR!: www.poetryspokenhere.com/open-mic-of-the-air Visit our website: www.poetryspokenhere.com Like us on facebook: facebook.com/PoetrySpokenHere Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/poseyspokenhere (@poseyspokenhere) Send us an e-mail: poetryspokenhere@gmail.com

Episode #148 Open Mic of the Air #9

Find out how a visit from a poetry reader to a high school German class turned into a 50+ year literary journey. Pierre Joris talks about translating the works of Paul Celan, his latest book of Celan translations "Microliths They Are, Little Stones: Posthumous Prose" from Contra Mundum Press, and reads some of his own work. SUBMIT TO THE OPEN MIC OF THE AIR! www.poetryspokenhere.com/open-mic-of-the-air Visit our website: www.poetryspokenhere.com Like us on facebook: facebook.com/PoetrySpokenHere Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/poseyspokenhere (@poseyspokenhere) Send us an e-mail: poetryspokenhere@gmail.com

Episode #147 Pierre Joris on Translating Paul Celan

Poet, performance artist, activist jessica Care moore, from Detroit talks about her influences including Haki Madhubuti, Ossie Davis & Ruby Dee and more. She also reads from her new book "We Want Our Bodies Back" and talks about some of her musical projects like Black WOMEN Rock! SUBMIT TO THE OPEN MIC OF THE AIR! www.poetryspokenhere.com/open-mic-of-the-air Visit our website: www.poetryspokenhere.com Like us on facebook: facebook.com/PoetrySpokenHere Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/poseyspokenhere (@poseyspokenhere) Send us an e-mail: poetryspokenhere@gmail.com

Episode #146 jessica Care moore

California poet David Koehn talks about how he gets around the "smart part of the brain" to write his poetry and reads from his new book "Scatterplot." Get your copy of "Scatterplot" here: https://www.omnidawn.com/product/scatterplot-david-koehn/ SUBMIT TO THE OPEN MIC OF THE AIR! www.poetryspokenhere.com/open-mic-of-the-air Visit our website: www.poetryspokenhere.com Like us on facebook: facebook.com/PoetrySpokenHere Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/poseyspokenhere (@poseyspokenhere) Send us an e-mail: poetryspokenhere@gmail.com

Episode #145 David Koehn

Luis J. Rodriguez reading at the Unamuno Author Festival. The festival took place in May of 2019 in Madrid, Spain. This reading was recorded at the book store Desperate Literature. Luis J. Rodriguez is a chicano poet whose memoir “Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days” was a national bestseller. In 2014 he was named Los Angeles poet laureate a position he held until 2016. He has been nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and has written everything from poetry and criticism to children’s books. He is also an activist - one of the founder of Tia Chuchas Centro Cultural, and a founding editor of Tia Chucha Press. You can learn more about Rodriguez at his website: luisjrodriguez.com. Visit our website: www.poetryspokenhere.com Like us on facebook: facebook.com/PoetrySpokenHere Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/poseyspokenhere (@poseyspokenhere) Send us an e-mail: poetryspokenhere@gmail.com

Episode #144 Luis J. Rodriguez Reading at the Unamuno Author Festival

The Open Mic of the Air is a project from Poetry Spoken Here begun in March of 2020. Since most in-person poetry events are suspended due to coronavirus, this is a way for poets from around the world to connect and have a creative outlet. We are also eager to receive and share poems inspired by the nation-wide protests against police brutality and in support of black lives. This is the eighth episode of the Open Mic of the Air featuring poets from around the world - Albania, Indonesia, the UK and more - as well as from across the United States. Give a listen and submit your work for the next episode! Send a recording - 5 mins or less - of yourself reading one of your poems, including your name and location, to openmicoftheair@gmail.com. For full submission guidelines, check out: www.poetryspokenhere.com/open-mic-of-the-air This Week's Readers Oriada Dajko, Tirana, Albania – “Matryoshka” Michael Panasuk, Bradenton, Florida — “The Spiritual Revolution is Coming” Peter Dietrich, Northampton, UK— “You Were Always More Than Just You” Sarah Lipton-Sidibeh, London, England —“The 1970s” Jim Hirtle, Texas, “If I Could” James Penha, Bali, Indonesia – The Good Life” Lennert Lundh, Orland Hills, Illinois – “Spring Night in the Forest of the Spirit” Sue Fagalde Lick, South Beach, Oregon – “Dollar Store Requiem” The Lockdown Collective (Olivia Mevorach, Josh Frydman, Shikha Subramanium, Dan Frydman, Kate Frydman, Beverly Frydman & Michael Frydman) – New York, Los Angeles, London – “What’s New” Aldo Quagliotte, Italy/London – “Effrontery” SUBMIT TO THE OPEN MIC OF THE AIR!: www.poetryspokenhere.com/open-mic-of-the-air Visit our website: www.poetryspokenhere.com Like us on facebook: facebook.com/PoetrySpokenHere Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/poseyspokenhere (@poseyspokenhere) Send us an e-mail: poetryspokenhere@gmail.com

Episode #143 Open Mic of the Air #8

The Open Mic of the Air is a project from Poetry Spoken Here begun in March of 2020. Since most in-person poetry events are suspended due to coronavirus, this is a way for poets from around the world to connect and have a creative outlet. We are also eager to receive and share poems inspired by the nation-wide protests against police brutality and in support of black lives. This is the seventh episode of the Open Mic of the Air featuring poets from across the United States - California, Utah, New York and more - as well as the Island of Dominica. Give a listen and submit your work for the next episode! Send a recording - 5 mins or less - of yourself reading one of your poems, including your name and location, to openmicoftheair@gmail.com. For full submission guidelines, check out: www.poetryspokenhere.com/open-mic-of-the-air This Week's Readers Walter Worden, Middletown, New York – “Anthem” Trish Hopkinson, Provo, Utah – “Other Ways” Jared Smith, Lafayette, Colorado – “There is a Song in all Poetry” Blake More, Mendocino, California – “Dirty Word” Peter F. Crowley, Boston area – “Time’s Recurrence and Vanishing” Celia A. Sorhaindo, Dominica – “Ajai Alai” Jennifer Dotson, Highland Park, Illinois – “Late Night Talk Show Fantasy” Michael Warr with translation by Chun Yu, San Francisco, California – “To Your Assailant—Who Attacks us All” (a rant in progress written in response to violent attacks against Asians during the COVID-19 crisis) SUBMIT TO THE OPEN MIC OF THE AIR!: www.poetryspokenhere.com/open-mic-of-the-air Visit our website: www.poetryspokenhere.com Like us on facebook: facebook.com/PoetrySpokenHere Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/poseyspokenhere (@poseyspokenhere) Send us an e-mail: poetryspokenhere@gmail.com

Episode #142 Open Mic of the Air #7

San Francisco poet Michael Warr, editor of "Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin" discusses that collection - begun in 2013, published in 2016, and more relevant than ever - and reads his own poetry. Get your copy of "Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmett Till to Treyvon Martin" here" https://wwnorton.com/books/Of-Poetry-and-Protest/ SUBMIT TO THE OPEN MIC OF THE AIR! www.poetryspokenhere.com/open-mic-of-the-air Visit our website: www.poetryspokenhere.com Like us on facebook: facebook.com/PoetrySpokenHere Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/poseyspokenhere (@poseyspokenhere) Send us an e-mail: poetryspokenhere@gmail.com

Episode #141 Michael Warr, Editor of "Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin"

Chris Green, Senior Professional Lecturer at DePaul University and poet, reads his poems and talks about the new book "American Gun" from Big Shoulders Books. American Gun is a book-length pantoum about gun violence in Chicago written collaboratively by 100 poets from across the city. Big Shoulders Books publishes and distributes books on social issues for free. Check out Big Shoulders Books, here: https://bigshouldersbooks.com/ Get a copy of American Gun, here: https://bigshouldersbooks.com/americangun SUBMIT TO THE OPEN MIC OF THE AIR! www.poetryspokenhere.com/open-mic-of-the-air Visit our website: www.poetryspokenhere.com Like us on facebook: facebook.com/PoetrySpokenHere Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/poseyspokenhere (@poseyspokenhere) Send us an e-mail: poetryspokenhere@gmail.com

Episode #140 Chris Green and the New Collection "American Gun" from Big Shoulder Books

Chris Benson now of South Carolina talks about found poetry and reads poems about his time living on a failed sort-of hippie commune farm in New England. Benson was a senior lecturer at Clemson University and was the Writing Coordinator and Editor for the Bread Loaf Teacher Network Journal from Middlebury College. SUBMIT TO THE OPEN MIC OF THE AIR! www.poetryspokenhere.com/open-mic-of-the-air Visit our website: www.poetryspokenhere.com Like us on facebook: facebook.com/PoetrySpokenHere Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/poseyspokenhere (@poseyspokenhere) Send us an e-mail: poetryspokenhere@gmail.com

Episode #139 Christopher Benson

Andrea "Vocab" Sanderson, San Antonio poet laureate, reads from her new book "She Lives in Music" from Flowersong Press, and talks about her music ventures and leaving messages of love and hope on city streets. Get your copy of "She Lives in Music," here: https://www.flowersongpress.com/books-1/she-lives-in-music-by-andrea-sanderson You can hear poetry from the previous San Antonio poet laureate Octavio Quintanilla, here: https://soundcloud.com/poetry-spoken-here/epiode-103-octavio-quintanilla-reading-at-the-unamuno-author-festival SUBMIT TO THE OPEN MIC OF THE AIR! www.poetryspokenhere.com/open-mic-of-the-air Visit our website: www.poetryspokenhere.com Like us on facebook: facebook.com/PoetrySpokenHere Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/poseyspokenhere (@poseyspokenhere) Send us an e-mail: poetryspokenhere@gmail.com

Episode #138 Andrea "Vocab" Sanderson, Poet Laureate of San Antonio

The newly named Youth Poet Laureate of Saskatchewan, Peace Akintade, discusses her poetry, her theatrical work, and the big plans she has for her laureateship. She also talks about being an Afro-Canadian poet and colorism. In the second part of the show, host Charlie Rossiter remembers traveling to Saskatchewan and reads from a collection of Saskatchewan poetry, "A Sudden Radiance." SUBMIT TO THE OPEN MIC OF THE AIR! www.poetryspokenhere.com/open-mic-of-the-air Visit our website: www.poetryspokenhere.com Like us on facebook: facebook.com/PoetrySpokenHere Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/poseyspokenhere (@poseyspokenhere) Send us an e-mail: poetryspokenhere@gmail.com

Episode #137 Peace Akintade Youth Poet Laureate of Saskatchewan and Reading from A Sudden Radiance

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