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I’m joined by Hamudi, a Palestinian-American poet sharing work about Palestine, the ongoing war and genocide, love, memories, the ocean, death, and much more. Really a wonderful set of poems in this one. We talk about liberation in our lifetime, avoiding apathy, and continuing the conversation and the fight against oppression. Catch Hamudi before he…
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From Henrico, Virginia (near Richmond), BG brings a hip-hop flow to spoken word conveying messages of peace, resistance, justice, and eroticism. BG also lived for a time near D.C. (Silver Spring, MD) and in Chicago for 6 years. BG has a Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy and a Masters degree in Public Administration. BG currently runs…
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Poet, photographer, filmmaker, Simon Shah has been a performer on the Denver scene for over two decades. A former language arts teacher, he currently works as a photojournalist for a national weather station. Simon has two collections of poetry, “Miasmic as Me” and “The Last Love Letters,” both of which can be found on Amazon. …
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Poet and philosopher Jonathan Jansikok shares and discusses his poems, his process, writing poetry in Paris, his take on our collective future, death, and much more. Jonathan is available to contact via email at jonathanjansikok@gmail.com Two of the poems Jonathan shares in this feature are set to be published by The Opiate Magazine, and can…
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Sofia Marie Race joins the show to chat about Russian literature and poetry, her travels, languages, and the personal nature of her own poetry. We also chat about her work in film and the overlap between movies, cinematography, and poetry. IG @sofia.marie.race — Questions? Comments? Want to be featured? Email thepoetspodcast@gmail.com
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Q returns, and with him Zahria Sage appears on the show for the first time to share and discuss poetry, her recent arrival in Denver, creating fantasies in the day-to-day, and much more. — Questions? Comments? Want to be featured? Email thepoetspodcast@gmail.com — Find Zahria on Facebook: Zahria Hull and see the episode page on…
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Racine Frank began writing poetry in December 2019 during her time as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Ethiopia. She started by writing haikus and then branched into free verse poetry incorporating rhyming schemes. From an early age, she traveled to and lived in multiple countries with Ethiopia being a time of tremendous growth and transformation.…
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Em Dorman is a poet, comedian, activist, and the creator of Poets for Palestine, a monthly event “to share about the complexities of grief, love, and loss.” In this feature Em shares poetry detailing their journey through self-discovery involving love, loss, sobriety, and celibacy. We discuss that journey, as well as family, queerness and gender,…
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Eli is a queer Colorado poet, parent, hiker, gardener, singer-songwriter, urban farmer, tiler and contractor. They’ve had poems published in multiple zines and reviews including Spit Poet Zine, Dark Moon Zine, and South Broadway Ghost Society. Their book, Treat Me Like You Treat the Earth, sold out after publication in 2019 and is slated for…
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Faith Diaz; event host, performer, story teller & writer, originally born in Bronx, NY, has spent most of her life moving from place to place. Her hope is to continue sharing the stories that matter, from people who do even more so. When she is not petting her Corgi, Sunny, she can be found lying…
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Gabriel Gravagno is a composer and jazz drummer on the front range. He has hosted the Friday jam session at the Mercury Café since 2020, and has been an active member of the Denver music scene his whole life, starting his musical journey by taking Violin lessons from his mother as a child, becoming a…
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Tony V is a streamer, stoner, and self-proclaimed local poet based in Denver, CO. Tony appears at the Friday night open mic at the Mercury Cafe, and has two collections in the works, one of poetry and one of short stories. Find Tony on Instagram @tony_v_poetry, and TikTok @zanaro420 — Questions? Comments? Want to be featured? Email…
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This statement is false: the Pseudobiography of M. Derek Pauls Paul Derek is dead. Long live Derek Pauls. Paul Derek had an exquisite if brief existence, beginning with his birth in Denver. Born mulatto to a dead mostly White dad in a mostly White city, Paul Derek was socially programmed, like everybody else, to see…
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Stone (they/them) is a poet based out of Denver, Colorado. They can be found on social media as @persephone_stone, but they can also be found wherever there are disco balls and mocktails. They explore themes of sobriety, queerness, and love in all forms. As well as a poet, they are a photographer, comedian, and cat…
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Sleepy is a dreamer the spirit world has decided to keep wide awake. With no other options to escape reality, he’s infiltrated the poet community in Denver to talk shit, build community, and help create a world that doesn’t need escaping from. Learn more about the Blackbird Renaissance: Instagram Youtube Discord Picture by @absolutemoment — Questions? Comments? Want to…
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Ryan is a poet who was born someplace, lives somewhere else and writes primarily about some things but not other things — and most of all, he absolutely despises any sort of mystery or vaguery. He doesn’t have patience for that sort of silliness. Not one bit. In this episode: Speechless (0:22) Milk Soap (2:38)…
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Grim Vorhees is a Chicago Born, Denver Based Creative that is exploring and experience art in whatever form manifests in his present moments. A community leader that strives to curate evolutionary environments that promote love, respect, and courage to be authentically yourself. His brand Good Vibes Only is one of the many platforms he uses…
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Marcus Aguirre aka MarcusThaPoet joins The Poets to share music, poetry, and deep thought. We talk about his poetry, songwriting, improv, performance style and development, finding heritage, the Earth, mushrooms, love, and so much more. Find Marcus streaming on all platforms under the name MarcusThaPoet and find him on IG, TikTok, and Snapchat @MarcusThaPoet. You…
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Chasing immortality #kingofcongress Welcome back Moses Graytower to the show. Buckle up, folks—we ended up down the rabbit hole in the best way on this one. Check out Moses’ album Congress and find him around town at open mics like the Corner Beat on Monday nights and the Mercury Cafe on Fridays and other nights.…
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William Howell is an artist and musician in Denver. He’s spent most of his life doing nothing, which continues to be the main source of inspiration for his art. If you’re interested in his upcoming projects, you can find him on instagram @runofthewill. — In this episode: Highway (0:22) Into Blue (3:43) Love Poem to…
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Philip Tran is a queer poet from Denver, collage artist, paper engineer, florist, handyman, roller derby initiate, and emcee who regularly hosts events and variety shows, and 4th Friday’s hosting the long running weekly poetry open mic at The Mercury Cafe. He is also a dad joke connoisseur. Find his podcast “From My Open Mic”…
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Jonny Schreiber loves to create and engage with art in all of its forms and can be described as a poet, musician, comedian, DJ, storyteller, (aspiring) author, (passable) dancer, and (extremely mediocre to below average) drawer (is that even a word??). He likes to think that he is extremely talented at following detailed recipes to…
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Find Q’s spoken word album on Bandcamp Quincy Hull (aka “Q”) has been writing poetry for over 30 years, and has been a member of the Still Black See Writers’ and Artists’ Guild for over 20 years. He has traveled extensively, reading and speaking at venues across the nation, including colleges from UWF and FSU…
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Racine Frank began writing poetry in December 2019 during her time as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Ethiopia. She started by writing haikus and then branched into free verse poetry incorporating rhyming schemes. From an early age, she traveled to and lived in multiple countries with Ethiopia being a time of tremendous growth and transformation.…
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Welcome Brandon Doulos Garett to The Poets. Writer, actor, poet, podcaster. Check out Brandon on TikTok and on his Podcast, Self Centered Therapy Also, check out the Something Different Variety Show for information about upcoming shows. — Questions? Comments? Want to be featured? Email thepoetspodcast@gmail.com
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Emily Wiecec returns to The Poets to share new and old poetry, and for a discussion on the darkness and healing that lives within the human experience. ALSO, if you are listening to this on December 31st, 2023 (or any year) the Mercury Cafe New Year’s Eve Erotic Poetry Festival is TONIGHT at 7:00pm. $15…
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David Price joins The Poets to share poems on love, grief, politics, and protest. We discuss his history and future with the Mercury Cafe as well as the questions both behind and within his work. David talks inspirations from the crowd, from his life, and from entire letter sections of the dictionary. Work on several…
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Hridith Sudev is a public-health scientist, writer, poet and community organizer. Born in India, and raised in Oman, Sudev migrated to the United States in 2018 to pursue higher education in Denver, where he has lived ever since. For the past 10 years, Sudev has worked in both governmental and non-governmental capacities to expand healthcare…
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Chef, poet, human. Follow Tariq on IG @tarooksalem — Questions? Comments? Want to be featured? Email thepoetspodcast@gmail.com
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The Poets took a bit of a holiday break, but we’re back today with the lovely and talented Ash Avery. Thanks for listening, and more to come! — Ash’s writing is inspired by their (mis)adventures in fringe living, efforts to balance disparate identities, and compulsion to psychoanalyze uniquely human experiences (for better and worse). Ash has…
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Aerik Francis is a Queer Black & Latinx poet based in Denver, CO. They are the author of the poetry chapbook MISEDUCATION (NDR 2023), named the winner of the 2022 New Delta Review Chapbook Prize, and poetry chapbook BODYELECTRONIC (Trouble Department 2022) which is available also in audiobook form on all streaming platforms under their artist…
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Photo by Jase West (IG @abstractxsol) JohnnyOsi is a fuzzy ball of lint, tickling the belly button of a collapsing galactic lotus, that smells like death. He is also a National Poetry Slam Finalist, an Individual World Poetry Slam Finalist, a Slaughterhouse Slam Champion, whose work has been featured on Button Poetry, Write About Now,…
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Ellie Dawson-Moore is a poet, soon-to-be novelist, and model based in Boulder, Colorado. Originally from Minneapolis, she moved to Colorado to attend the University of Colorado Boulder, where she studies creative writing with a minor in education. On this episode we discuss some of her inspirations—the morbid and the sappy—along with gothic horror, Greek mythology,…
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I began sharing spoken word poetry in Aug 2022. It began as journal entries and took more structure when I started doing open mics. This exploration of myself happened when I realized the many categories I exist in. Viewing myself as the runner Renée, the academic Renée, the friend Renée, the employee Renée, etc—and the…
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Former guests and friends of the show Sleepy and Andrew Bryson return to the show for a discussion of the occult, death, the collective unconscious, poetic inspirations, and some bald guy. — Sleepy is a dreamer the spirit world has decided to keep wide awake. With no other options to escape reality, he’s infiltrated the…
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On this episode, former feature Jase West reappears and is joined by Sojo. Together, we discuss god (God?) in all forms of art and the human experience, as well as the process of surrendering to find the beauty in our lives. How to let go in order to receive abundance. We also dip our toes…
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Find more of Jacob’s work at his website and see more from his publishing company, Static Publishing, on IG @staticpublishing. Jacob S. Friedman is a writer, philosopher, mathematician, and the author of Shorts, An Interesting Book, and My Typewriter Hates the Government But I Don’t, among others. His first two works, collections of poems, employed a method of immersion in…
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Hello dear person! My name is Ezra. I’m an old soul born in Bailey, Colorado where I grew up with one older brother and a single mom. I was first introduced to poetry through my mother’s brother, Andrew Medan Karp. After Andrew took his own life in 1977, my grandmother consolidated his journals of writing…
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My name is Jeremy Muriungi. I’m Kenyan. I moved to Spokane, WA from Nairobi, Kenya in 2014 to pursue my bachelor’s degree. My academic journey has been 8 years in the making. I finally got my B.S. in Computer Science in Dec. 2022. I moved to Denver in August 2023 to start a new job.I…
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Rae Monet, the eclectic muse creates spiritually, sexually, sensually; activating the collective “Inna G”. Her soulful, psychedelic sound coalesces stimulating textures and bluesy melodies with sultry vocals to soothe the aching soul. As a poet, the same applies, as her music is riddled with flows rooted in prose. Catch Rae at open mics across Denver to hear…
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Friends of the show and previous feature poets Q and Philip Tran reappear together for a conversation full of laughter, deep thought, and tough questions. Q and Philip are two of the recurring hosts of the Friday night open mic at the Mercury Cafe in Downtown Denver. Q also hosts a music and poetry open…
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Dennis Mulherin is a Colorado based poet whose work deals with themes like love, pain, existential crises, and making furniture. Dennis’ collection of poetry, An Edge Over End Grain, based on his work as a furniture designer and craftsman, is forthcoming, and he is currently close to completing a novel, which we discuss in this…
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Follow BarZ on Instagram @barzbrown and @barzbrownmusic Find more about BarZ and his work on his website, barzbrown.com BarZ Brown is an Independent Artist from Lawnside, NJ. Starting out as a producer, BarZ was introduced to the music scene working with 754/Raw Connection in South Jersey at the age of 14. Since then, BarZ has…
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Lottie Dammit is the pseudonym of a Denver local with a lot of opinions about her own shortcomings. She assembled the moniker from the comic book character “Lottie Person” (protagonist of the social media mystery comic “Snotgirl”) and her own mishearing of the name “Robert Emmett,” an Irish Liberationist. Lottie has always loved writing and…
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Girl Harbor writes haiku. Anime fan, haiku-ist, poet. Welcome Girl Harbor to The Poets. Find more of her on IG @er5in_
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Tony V is a streamer, stoner, and self-proclaimed local poet based in Denver, CO. Tony appears at the Friday night open mic at the Mercury Cafe, and has two collections in the works, one of poetry and one of short stories. Find Tony on Instagram @tony_v_poetry, and TikTok @zanaro420 — Questions? Comments? Want to be…
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There are many names, and really none of them fit perfectly, and even in combination, they only loosely hold the ideas that have so far reflected me in this lifetime. Christian Lewys Carson, Courageous Grizzly, Street Preacher, Comfortable Monk, Raven-Heart Bumblebee, Sacred Bull… While struggling to accurately describe myself, I find energetic nuances and abstractions…
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Simeon, aka Dylan Rudolph, is a Denver based poet who hails from a small town in North Dakota. An Orthodox Christian, Simeon’s beliefs infuse his poetry with spiritual and esoteric principles that describe to listeners the benefits of a life emulating Christ. Simeon loves living and working in Denver, CO, which he describes as a…
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Rapper, singer, poet, artist, and philosopher El Rima joins The Poets to share his work, his past, and a glimpse into the mindset behind his art. Find more from El Rima on Youtube and IG @elrimasoyyo Photo by BarZ Brown (IG @barzbrown) — Questions? Comments? Reach out to thepoetspodcast@gmail.com to connect.
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AJ is the guy behind the bar who enjoys conversations that start with wandering the great outdoors, glide into politics, stumble through pop culture, joke about comedy, reiterate sports commentary, and land safely in music. Also, he hates run-on sentences. AJ is originally from Atlanta, which he proudly claims as the cultural Mecca of the…
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