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Quintessential Poetry: A Global Poetry & Spoken Word Poetry Podcast

411 episodesLatest Feb 22, 2026
Recorded in United States of AmericaEnglishArts
Quintessential Poetry is an award‑nominated global poetry and spoken word podcast featuring poets, storytellers, performers, and creative writers from around the world. Established in 2018, the show blends performance with reflective conversation, offering listeners meaningful insights into identity, healing, culture, and the human experience. Hosted by Dr. Michael Anthony Ingram—a four‑time Pushcart Prize–nominated poet, retired professor of Counselor Education, and internationally respected spoken word artist—the podcast is known for its warm, grounded, and emotionally attuned interviews. Each episode highlights global poetic voices and the cultural stories behind their work, creating a thoughtful, performance‑driven space for poetry enthusiasts, spoken word poetry performers, cultural storytellers, and audio creatives alike. With thousands of downloads and listeners across more than a dozen countries, Quintessential Poetry has become one of the most widely heard poetry podcasts in the world—a global stage where performance, reflection, and lived experience take center spotlight. With more than 500 episodes, the show has consistently ranked among the top poetry podcasts worldwide, including multiple #2 placements on 2024 global lists and top rankings on Goodpods, Player.fm, Ivy.fm, and the NYC World Podcast Network. Quintessential Poetry has also earned nominations in the Best Arts & Culture categories across major podcasting awards in 2025 and 2026. Poets interested in being featured may contact Dr. Ingram at maingram@gmx.com. Learn more at https://www.quintessentialpoetry.network.

Episodes — page 17

  1. Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Ethan Goffman

    Ethan Goffman’s first volume of poetry, Words for Things Left Unsaid, is just out from Kelsay Books. Ethan is co-founder of It Takes a Community, a Montgomery College initiative br…

    S3 E1901:06:33
  2. Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents HERSTORY

    Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio proudly presents HERSTORY. HERSTORY is history written from a woman’s perspective. Noted poets Sophia Naz, Jackie Oldham, Marianne Szl…

    S3 E1801:30:46
  3. Quintessential Listening: Poetry Reading Series Presents Linda Imbler

    Linda Imbler is the author of four poetry collections published at Amazon. Soma Publishing published two of her poetry books and one poetry-short fiction hybrid. She began writing…

    S3 E1459:41
  4. Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Open Mic Night

    Famed poet Audre Lord wrote the following: ". . . Poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate our…

    S3 E1601:09:49
  5. Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Candice Kelsey

    CANDICE KELSEY‘s first book explored adolescent identity in the age of social media and was recognized as an Amazon.com Top Ten Parenting Book in 2007. Her poetry has appeared in P…

    S3 E1301:00:42
  6. Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Phyllis Klein

    Phyllis Klein works as a psychotherapist specializing in trauma and a Certified Poetry Therapist who has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for over 30 years. Her work has appeare…

    01:05:19
  7. Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Jonathan B. Tucker

    JBT is a writer, educator, performer, and poet based in Washington, DC. Sharing his work at schools, theaters, and venues around the world, he has performed in Cape Town, Boston, L…

    S3 E1001:01:46
  8. Poems in a Time of Protest

    Protest poetry cries out against wrongs (of any kind) that ought to be set right, whether they are social, political, environmental, etc. It’s not always kind and polite. It speaks…

    S3 E901:16:09
  9. Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Francis Diclemente

    Francis DiClemente is the author of five poetry collections, most recently Dreaming of Lemon Trees: Selected Poems (Finishing Line Press, 2019). His full-length stage play, Beyond…

    S3 E851:01
  10. National Mental Health Awareness Month Poetry Program

    The program is sponsored by Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio and the National Alliance on Mental Illness, Washington, DC Chapter. Quintessential Listening: Poetry Onli…

    S3 E701:48:20
  11. QLP Reading Series Presents Sara Cahill Marron, Katy Bohinc and Lee Ann Brown

    Sara Cahill Marron, a relocated New York poet living in Washington D.C., is the author of Reasons for the Long Tu’m (Broadstone Books, 2018) and Associate Editor of Beltway Poetry…

    S3 E601:00:26
  12. QL_P Presents I, Too, Know Why The Caged Bird Sings: Pandemic Poetry

    It's open mic poetry night on Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio. So call-in and share your poetry about the pandemic and other topics. https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/202…

    S3 E358:22
  13. QL_P Presents Poetry in the Age of the Coronavirus

    https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2020/0331/1127523-poetry-pandemic-coronavirus/ https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/poetry-in-the-times-of-covid-19/article31163319.ece https://www.…

    S3 E259:11
  14. The Quintessential Listening: Poetry Reading Series Presents Todd Cirillo

    Todd Cirillo is co-founder and editor of Six Ft. Swells Press. He is one of the originators of the After-Hours Poetry movement. Todd’s latest book is Kisses From A Straight Razor (…

    S3 E101:00:37
  15. Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Rebroadcast Austin Davis

    Austin Davis is a poet and student activist currently studying creative writing at ASU. Austin is the author of THE WORLD ISN’T THE SIZE OF OUR NEIGHBORHOOD ANYMORE, which was rele…

    01:01:36
  16. Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Austin Davis

    Austin Davis is a poet and student activist currently studying creative writing at ASU. Austin is the author of THE WORLD ISN’T THE SIZE OF OUR NEIGHBORHOOD ANYMORE, which was rele…

    S2 E6501:01:36
  17. Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Sophia Naz

    Sophia Naz is a bilingual poet, essayist, author, editor, and translator. She has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize, in 2016 for creative nonfiction and in 2018 for poetr…

    S2 E6401:03:02
  18. Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Proudly Presents Miss Kiane

    Author, performer, facilitator and entrepreneur, Dinahsta Thomas, also known as Miss Kiane, loves all things artsy. A native of Queens, NY Miss Kiane was born to an African America…

    01:16:33
  19. QL: P Celebrates World Poetry Day with James Morgan Jones

    James Morgan-Jones was born and brought up on the Essex/London borders. His mother was Welsh and his father from the East End. He trained as a professional actor at the Guildhall S…

    01:04:56
  20. World Poetry Day 2020

    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…

    01:40:55
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