Hosted by Amanda Eke · EN · 85 episodes
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The Poet Speaks Podcast, hosted by world renowned Spoken Word Artist Amanda Eke, features her engaging in conversations with Spoken Word artists and performing poets from around the world. Tune in to hear Amanda and other Spoken Word Artists discuss performing, oral tradition, and all things Spoken Word Poetry. Most importantly, they tell us why they need to get their words out!
Amanda Eke hosts The Poet Speaks Podcast, a arts show with 85 episodes published.
In this Season 10 finale of The Poet Speaks Podcast, host Amanda Eke sits with Muttertongue — Lillian Allen, Gary Barwin, and Gregory Betts — to explore poetry as sound, collaboration, and living archive. Their latest pr
Check out Amanda's conversation with Uche Nduka! Uche Nduka is a Nigerian American poet-pilgrim, collagist, and essayist presently living in New York City. He is the author of 15 volumes of poems of which the latest are
Check out Amanda's conversation with Tiriq Rashad! A proud native of Atlantic City and Pleasantville, or “Atlantic-Ville” as he affectionately calls it, Tiriq Rashad draws deeply from his roots to craft a narrative style
Check out Amanda's conversation with Fatima-Ayan Malika Hirsi! Fatima's work strives to instigate action in service to world-building, social change, and collaboration. Her poems live in Obsidian: Literature & Arts in th
Check out Amanda's conversation with Erica Miriam Fabri! Erica Miriam Fabri is a Brooklyn-based poet. Her first book, Dialect of a Skirt, published by Hanging Loose Press (2010), was a finalist for the 2011 Paterson Poet
Check out Amanda's conversation with Keys Will! Keys Will is a poet, author, and educator whose pen-seasoned lines rise from lived experience and the work of becoming. Under her moniker Keys Will, she crafts poetry and p
Season 10 of The Poet Speaks opens with a historic conversation with Richard Blanco, Presidential Inaugural Poet, award-winning author, educator, and cultural voice! Born in Spain to Cuban exile parents and raised in Mia
It's the SEASON 9 Finale! Check out Amanda's conversation with Mason Granger ! Mason Granger (he/him) is a spoken word artist with over a decade of experience on stages & in educational settings across all 50 states and
Check out Amanda's conversation with Adela Najarro! Adela Najarro is the author of four poetry collections, including Volcanic Interruptions, which earned an Honorable Mention at the 2024 International Latino Book Awards
Check out Amanda's conversation with Yetvart S. Majian! Yetvart S. Majian, a first-generation Armenian-American native of Hudson County and Saint Peter’s University alum, is a local poetry facilitator, active performer a
Check out Amanda's conversation with Larry Love! Larry Love is a dynamic professional spoken word artist who performs powerful pieces of poetry with an urgent intent to highlight the need for social change. He is also th
Check out Amanda's conversation with Shay.thepoet ! Shataysha Byrd was born and raised in the Bronx, New York. Shataysha originally started poetry in fifth grade but did not get the courage to perform in front of an audi
Welcome to Season 9! Check out Amanda's conversation with Brandon Leake! Brandon Leake is the season 15 winner of America’s Got Talent, a 7x Telly Award Winner, 1x SOVAS Award Winner, and 1x Emmy Award Winner. Brandon ha
It's our Season 8 Finale! Check out Amanda's conversation with Regie Cabico! Regie Cabico is a spoken word pioneer having won The Nuyorican Poets Cafe Grand Slam. Mr. Cabico was a featured poet at the 2022 Whitney Bienni
Check out Amanda's conversation with Thomas Fucaloro! The winner of numerous grants from the Staten Island Council of the Arts, the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, NYC Office for the Prevention of Hate Crimes and NYC
Check out Amanda's conversation with LaTasha Diggs! A writer, vocalist and performance/sound artist, LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs is the author of Village (Coffee House Press 2023), TwERK (Belladonna, 2013) as well as the co-
Check out Amanda's conversation with Ralonda Simmons! Ralonda Simmons is a speaker, published author, educator, and singer born in California but residing in the Denver metro area. She received her BA from Metropolitan S
Check out Amanda's conversation with Miguel Martin Perez! Miguel Martin Perez (he/they) is a queer Afro-Dominican poet raised in Harlem and the South Bronx. He is a Cave Canem Fellow, a 2022 Langston Hughes Fellow at the
Check out Amanda's conversation with Siggy Trust! Sagirah “Siggy” Layne is an Accountant and poet/spoken word artist of Grenadian descent, from Brooklyn, NY. She started her accounting career as an auditor at Ernst & You
Check out Amanda's conversation with Nerd The Poet! Dominic “Nerd” McDonald also known as Nerd the Poet, is a young Black Entrepreneur and Spoken Word artist from various cities in Los Angeles, California who relocated t
Gary Barwin
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Richard Blanco
The Inaugural Poet · NRLA
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Matt Sedillo
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