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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 19

  1. Quintessential Listening: Poetry Presents - J.P. Dancing Bear

    J. P. Dancing Bear is editor for the Verse Daily and Dream Horse Press. He is the author of fourteen collections of poetry, most recently, Cephalopodic (Glass Lyre Press, 2015. His…

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  2. Quintessential Listening: Poetry Presents - Todd Cirillo

    Todd Cirillo is a writer, poet, publisher and pirate. He is one of the originators of After-Hour Poetry and co-founder and editor of Six Ft. Swells Press. His books include: Burnin…

    S2 E2901:00:48
  3. Quintessential Listening: Poetry Presents - Tzynya Pinchback

    Tzynya Pinchback is the author of the chapbook, How to Make Pink Confetti (Dancing Girl Press, 2012). Poems and essays from her current manuscript, Tulle, have appeared or are fort…

    S2 E2801:08:32
  4. Quintessential Listening: Poetry Presents - Cynthia Manick

    Cynthia Manick is the author of Blue Hallelujahs (Black Lawrence Press, 2016). She has received fellowships from Cave Canem, Hedgebrook, and the MacDowell Colony among others. Winn…

    S2 E2758:15
  5. Quintessential Listening: Poetry Presents - Jessica Lyew-Ayee Flynn

    Jessica Lyew-Ayee Flynn started her life journey in Kingston, Jamaica, moving to the United States at the age of eight and has since lived in various cities across the country. Her…

    S2 E2655:46
  6. Quintessential Listening: Poetry Presents - Adam Shames

    Adam Shames is a poet, singer-songwriter, musician, storyteller and workshop leader whose collection of poems, Dreaming of Corners (http://kreativity.net/creative-vault), is availa…

    S2 E2301:01:14
  7. Quintessential Listening: Poetry Presents - Valeri Beers Poetry and Book Launch

    Valeri Beers is from Bangor, Maine. Her first book of poems titled ...details... published by Thomas Hill Publishing. This is her second poetry book titled "Scratching The Surface"…

    S2 E2546:45
  8. Quintessential Listening: Poetry Presents - Indran Amirthanayagam

    Indran Amirthanayagam (www.indranmx.com) is an American poet and diplomat, He writes in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese and Haitian Creole. He has published sixteen poetry col…

    S2 E2401:03:48
  9. Quintessential Listening: Poetry Presents - Andrew Kerr

    Drew Kerr is a PhD student in anthropology. While he intends for his research to engage the anthropology of militarized zones, he utilizes poetry as a tool to reflect, digest, and…

    S2 E2201:01:08
  10. Quintessential Listening: Poetry Presents - Jessica Philie Park

    Jessica Philie Park is a founding member of the DC Guerrilla Poetry Insurgency (GPI) and co-hosts the GPI Open Mic (https://bossadc.com/events/dcgpi-open-mic-night) every second Tu…

    S2 E2101:00:09
  11. The QL_P Reading Series Featuring Heather Bryant and Octavio R. González

    Heather Corbally Bryant teaches in the Writing Program at Wellesley College. She has taught at the Pennsylvania State University, the University of Michigan, and Harvard College wh…

    S2 E2001:12:38
  12. Quintessential Listening: Poetry Presents - John MacDonald

    John MacDonald is a Maryland poet living in Silver Spring, near Washington, DC. He experiments in a variety of styles of poetry and poetry performance. His poems have appeared in v…

    S2 E1901:01:23
  13. Ahmad AlKhatat's Wounds from Iraq - Book Launch and Poetry Reading

    "Once again, Ahmad Alkhatat uses his excellent writing talents to create sorrowful but beautiful images, this time as he visits the place of his birth, Baghdad, Iraq. The book begi…

    S2 E1858:42
  14. Quintessential Listening: Poetry Salutes Unstoppable By Design

    Unstoppable by Design is a play that explores the life of Matt Rifenburg who at times has been homeless, friendless, hungry, married to someone addicted to drugs, a clueless father…

    S2 E1657:35
  15. Quintessential Listening: Poetry Presents - bes

    bes is the nom de guerre of a poetperformer, transdisciplinary researcher, conscientious creator and advocate for civil and human rights. Currently Washington, D.C.based, bes began…

    S2 E1501:00:58
  16. Quintessential Listening: Poetry Presents -Corey Veraceouz Houser

    Corey Veraceouz Houser is a 36 years old actor, author, father, poet, singer, songwriter, pianist, and a producer from Santee, SC and resides in Atlanta, GA. The word "Veraceouz" m…

    S2 E1401:00:14
  17. Quintessential Listening: Poetry Presents - Yvonne Brewer (Prerecorded)

    The Episode is Prerecorded Yvonne Brewer is originally from County Offaly, Ireland and lives in Cork, Ireland. She has had poetry published since 2014 with Women's Spiritual Poetry…

    35:02
  18. Quintessential Listening: Poetry Presents - Gregory Luce

    Gregory Luce is the author of the chapbooks Signs of Small Grace (Pudding House Publications) and Drinking Weather (Finishing Line Press), the collection Memory and Desire (Sweatsh…

    S2 E1301:01:49
  19. Quintessential Listening: Poetry Presents - Naomi Thiers

    I grew up partly in central California—where I still have family --and partly in Pittsburgh—where I had my first fantastic poetry teacher. I’ve lived in the Washington, DC area, my…

    S2 E1001:02:00
  20. Quintessential Listening: Poetry - Dominique Jones - Rebroadcast

    Dominique Jones is renaissance artist from Rochester, MN who avidly performs in theatre, poetry, dance, and music. He has been writing poetry for about ten years and in that time h…

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