Quintessential Poetry: A Global Poetry & Spoken Word Poetry Podcast

Jacinta V. White is a teaching artist, coach, facilitator, and entrepreneur. She's the founder of The Word Project and the Publishing Editor-in Chief, for the international quarter…

Katarina Canyon is a BIPOC, Award Winning Poet, Best Selling Author, civil rights activist, essayist, and poet. She grew up in Los Angeles and much of her writing reflects that exp…

Gretchen Primack is a poet, educator, and indie bookseller living in New York's Hudson Valley. She has taught and/or administrated prison education programs since 2006. Primack has…

Gerry LaGuardia Leonard writes in poetic prose, storytelling about the state of today’s world. She claims to have always walked the paths of altruism and artistic pursuits. Today,…

World Poetry Day was adopted as 21 March by UNESCO in 1999. It is an invitation to reflect on the power of language and the full development of each person’s creative abilities. It…

Kelly Bradley is a tech writer and Sr. Product Manager in the Washington DC area where she writes stories and creates apps based on data. She wrote her first poem in Second grade,…

Mysti S. Milwee is an International award-winning and published synesthesia artist (paints to music), poetess, writer, screenwriter, book cover art designer, and illustrator from S…

Amy Jean is a dreamer, a poet, a mother, and a writer with compelling stories to share. Her exploratory books peel back the layers of social justice, spiritual awakening, and her q…

Kim B Miller’s poetry is inspirational, her words are bold and she is unapologetically blunt. Kim is the Poet Laureate for Prince William County. She is the First African American…

BIO Jerry T. Johnson is a Poet and Spoken Word Artist whose poetry has appeared in a variety of literary publications worldwide including: Burning Word Literary Journal, great weat…

Bio: Kay Bell is the author of two poetry collections: Cry Sweat Bleed Write published by Lily Poetry Review Books and Diary of an Intercessor published by Finishing Line Press. Sh…

Jackie Oldham is a writer from Baltimore, Maryland, focused on poetry, essays, and short stories. Her poetry and essays appear mainly on her personal blog, baltimoreblackwoman.com…

Poet, Novelist, Public Speaker Brian Donnell James is the 2020 "United Nations" FAO World Food Day Poetry First Prize Winner, for his poem ”Testimony” which was read before a virtu…

John Patrick Robbins, is the editor in chief of the Rye Whiskey Review, Under The Bleechers, The Black Shamrock Magazine, Crossroads Magazine, The Abyss. He is the Author of The St…

Join us as we pay special tribute to the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr. King, during his lifetime, confronted many issues that are still with us today. Ever the…

Shakira Croce is a writer living in Brooklyn, New York.Leave It Raw (Finishing Line Press, 2020) is her debut poetry collection, featuring poems that explore the nuances of sexuali…

AaronRPoems.com sponsors multiple poetry contests throughout the year. Hilton Lewis won the the December 2020 Poetically Correct contest. The other participants in the contest were…

I’m a girl from a small rural village in Hungary. Growing up in humble but love filled surroundings, I always knew there’s more out there for me. In 2000 when I was 20, I moved to…

Marianne Szlyk’s poems have appeared in of/with, bird’s thumb, Mad Swirl, Solidago, One-Sentence Poems, Bourgeon, Mike Maggio’s COVID-19 series, Sheila-na-gig, Verse Virtual, Cacti…

jessica Care moore is the founder and CEO of Moore Black Press, executive producer of Black WOMEN Rock!, and founder of the literacy-driven, Jess Care Moore Foundation. An internat…