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Sept. 10, 2024

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Dr. Suneet Mad…

Dr. Suneet Madan personifies creative diversity. Connecting life dots with insatiable curiosity is how she defines herself and the same is reflected in her creations. A seasoned user experience professional, Suneet has Doctorate degree from CEPT University, Ahmedabad, Masters in Design (Visual Comm…

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Sept. 10, 2024

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Dr. Mircea Dan…

Poet, film scientist, translator, author of Czech expression (*27.05.1967, Bucharest). Editor/Correspondent: Levure Littéraire (France – USA - Germany), Literomania, FITRALIT, Actualitatea Literară (Romania), Timpul (Moldavia), A Too Powerful Word (Serbia), Alephi (India), Quest (Montenegro), produ…

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Sept. 10, 2024

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Jennifer M. Ga…

Jennifer M. Garnatz was born in Lucea on the Caribbean Island of Jamaica in 1953. From the age of 4, she was raised in Kingston by her extremely strict single father. Her mother migrated to the UK. Due to his busy work schedule, he immediately placed her in a boarding school, later at diverse priva…

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Sept. 10, 2024

QLPOR Presents James L. Rencher Jr. AKA Sir Lawrence

James L. Rencher Jr. AKA Sir Lawrence Sir Lawrence started writing in the early 2000s. He has also appeared and featured throughout the city of Houston while being a part of “Snow Industries” created by Black Snow the Poet. Then life got in the way, which stalled Sir Lawrence’s pen. In 2017 relo…

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Sept. 10, 2024

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Brian Zaffino

About the Author: Brian Zaffino holds a BA in Creative Writing from New York University. He grew up around New England, primarily in Connecticut and New Hampshire, and now resides in New York. Ghosts of Mr. Baker is his debut poetry collection. Synopsis:  A book of nostalgia, tragedy, and univer…

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Sept. 10, 2024

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Features Stephen C. Pol…

Stephen C. Pollock is the author of the poetry collection Exits, published by Windtree Press. The book nods to the literary traditions of years past while simultaneously speaking to the present moment. It responds to contemporary anxieties surrounding death and the universal search for meaning in l…

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Sept. 10, 2024

QLPOR Presents The Day The World Caught Fire

Welcome, dear listeners, to a special episode of the QLPOR poetry podcast. Tonight, we gather together to honor and remember the lives impacted by the tragic events of September 11th. In commemoration of this day, we have invited poets, singers and musicians from far and wide to share their heartfe…

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Sept. 10, 2024

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Poetry Global …

Poetry Global Network A few years after we all met during COVID during the emerging open-mic scene on Zoom, Lakan (LKN) presented the idea of us forming a poet’s community. PGN - Poetry Global Network (PGN) was created in 2021 as a non-profit corporation in the UK. We are an international media pl…

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Sept. 10, 2024

QLPOR Proudly Presents Tré'Jhaun Andrece Dueberry

Tré’Jhaun Andrece Dueberry (They/Them & She/Her), also known for their poetry as Love Infinite, is a multi-disciplinary creator, performer and artist currently living in Augusta, Georgia. They bow in service to the ideas of evolution and constant metamorphosis through a reverence of nature, divinit…

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Sept. 10, 2024

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents John Patrick R…

John Patrick Robbins is a southern gothic writer and poet. He is also referred to as The Mad Editor; he is currently the editor in chief of thirteen magazines. He is also the author twelve books his latest being Midnight Masochism from Black Circle Publishing. He has been published in The Dopefiend…

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Sept. 10, 2024

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Paul Rabinowitz

Paul Rabinowitz is a novelist, poet, photographer, founder of ARTS By The People and an adjunct professor at Fairleigh Dickinson University. His works appear in The Sun Magazine, New World Writing, Burningword, Evening Street Press, The Montreal Review, and elsewhere. Rabinowitz was a featured arti…

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Sept. 10, 2024

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Phynne~Belle

Phynne~Belle is a San Francisco Bay Area poet, writer, and co-director of The Poetry Global Network. She had her poetry included in two poetry anthologies in 2021, Sinew: Ten Years of Poetry in the Brew and The Bronx Memoir Project Anthology Vol. V. This year, she has contributed to PGN’s first ant…

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Sept. 10, 2024

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Roberto Carlos…

As a result of sound issues, your audio device may need to be turned up to a higher volume. Poet, storyteller, and essayist Roberto Carlos Garcia is a self-described "sancocho [...] of provisions from the Harlem Renaissance, the Spanish Poets of 1929, the Black Arts Movement, the Nuyorican School…

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Sept. 10, 2024

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents James Mr. Spea…

James Mr. Speaker Sears is a highly decorated retired Army officer with four combat tours who is originally from Louisville, KY.  He is an event host, motivational speaker, spoken word artist, track coach, and professional mentor with the Steve Harvey Summer Camp.    He is a highly decorated Sold…

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Sept. 10, 2024

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Noushka

From an eternal realm, NOUSHKA, was destined to blaze forth, and her ability to was written for her before the beginning of time. As a child, she was often complimented for her beautiful handwriting amongst other things, and though aesthetically pleasing, there were days of old when she naively in…

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Sept. 10, 2024

QLPOR Features Samuel Rain Benjamin AKA Complicated Passions

Author/Poet Samuel Rain Benjamin aka Complicated Passions, creator of the Passions Private Collection and Dark Man Blues the series, has written over 40 books including “Love and the Conversation, The Clone in Me and The Foreplay Series.” He has also performed across the country from Los Angeles to…

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Sept. 10, 2024

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Mike Turner

Mike Turner is a songwriter and poet living on the US Alabama Gulf Coast. A retired Federal law enforcement executive, Mike was named 2017 Male Gospel Entertainer of the Year by the North America Country Music Associations International, and was a featured performer at the 2021 Monroeville (AL) Lit…

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Sept. 10, 2024

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Featuring Megan Wildhood

Megan Wildhood is a writer, editor, and writing coach who helps her readers feel seen in her monthly newsletter, poetry chapbook Long Division (Finishing Line Press, 2017), her forthcoming poetry collection Bowed As If Laden With Snow (Cornerstone Press, May 2023) as well as Mad in America, The Sun…

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Sept. 10, 2024

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Chris Courtney…

BIO: Chris Courtney Martin is a Black Queer multidisciplinary artist and psychic medium originally from Philadelphia. Martin's produced screenwriting credits include short independent projects starring talents such as Sheryl Lee Ralph and Niecy Nash, as well as the animated YouTube series 'SOMETHIN…

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Sept. 10, 2024

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Alyssa Noelle …

After sharing her first journey back to love in her 2016 #1 bestselling poetry compilation, CHOSEN, Death's breath sent twenty-one-year-old Alyssa on her first meaning-seeking mission around the world. Through her sociocultural anthropology training at UCSD and many seasons of disconnection with he…

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Sept. 10, 2024

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Alexander Post…

Alexander Poster is a good, grey bureaucrat who works as a historian for a labyrinthine federal agency. He lives less than one mile from the U.S. Capitol and survived a nasty case of COVID-19, none of which inspired his writing one bit. He is a fan of Cormac McCarthy, depressing music from the 80s …

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Sept. 10, 2024

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Derek Annis

Derek Annis (they/he) is a neurodivergent poet from the Inland Northwest. He is the author of Neighborhood of Gray Houses (Lost Horse Press) and River City Fires (Driftwood Press). They are an editor for Lynx House Press, and their poems have appeared in The Account, Colorado Review, Epiphany, The …

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Sept. 10, 2024

QLPOR Presents Farastein Mokwenye (Prerecorded)

As a result of sound issues, your audio device may need to be turned up to a higher volume. Farastein Mokwenye is an entrepreneur, engineer, freelance writer, poet and the author of the historical romance fiction novel "Tales of Jideofor." The story follows the life of Jideofor during the transatl…

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Sept. 10, 2024

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Marie Metaphor…

Marie Metaphor Specht is a multidisciplinary artist, poet, and educator living with her partner and son on the unceded territories of the Lək̓ʷəŋən- and SENĆOTEN-speaking peoples. She has collaborated with filmmakers, lighting engineers, dancers, and musicians to create immersive and interactive wor…

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