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Ellen Thea is an award winning performance poet, drummer, dancer, and holistic counselor, utilizing tarot, astrology, crystals and energy work. Her life’s journey has taken her from New York City to South Florida to rural Alaska. She has been writing and performing almost her entire life, learning to write and…

I was born Wavyne Diana Benskin in Trinidad and Tobago to Barbadian parents. I am a graduate of Curepe Junior Secondary and St Augustine Girls High School. A graduate of Mercy College. A recipient of Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing Fellowship. A Scholarship of Community Literature Initiative California. Best…

A little about my book My book, Survived By, chronicles my experience coping with my father's terminal cancer diagnosis, his death, and my subsequent grief journey. The poems vary visually, utilizing the ribcage form invented by Athena Liu, concrete poetry, and white space. A little about me I am a…

Martin Graff is an artist, author, musician, and extreme-chin-beard enthusiast in Arlington, VA who crafts poetic vignettes with matching art on every topic from the stigma of liking scrapple to the meaning of life in a series called The Face Zone: Surreal Daydreams to Trip Your Imagination... Marty’s live spoken-word…

Megan Wildhood is a writer, editor, and writing coach who helps her readers feel seen in her monthly newsletter, poetry chapbook Long Division (Finishing Line Press, 2017), her forthcoming poetry collection Bowed As If Laden With Snow (Cornerstone Press, May 2023) as well as Mad in America, The Sun and…

Poetry plays a vital role in mental health awareness by providing a creative outlet for individuals to express their emotions and experiences related to mental health. It offers a means of self-expression and catharsis, allowing individuals to process their feelings and promote their overall well-being. Through personal poems, poetry helps…

Nayma Chamchoun is a British Moroccan, a self taught writer and poet. Her writing is influenced by her cultural duality. She is interested in female voices in the diaspora community, the challenges they face within both communities and the taboos around mental health within their ancestral communities. She is an…

Richard Harries is a performance poet, raconteur and storyteller from Yorkshire in the UK. He has been performing at festivals, charity events and community events for around 12 years. He has headlined at events both in person and on Zoom. He has two books published by Stairwell Books of York.…

Manatita, a.k.a The Lantern Carrier, is a published author and poet, who has been performing poetry for 22 years. Equally at home with performance pieces, Lantern Carrier has won a Hammer and Tongue (H&T) Slam, featured at BYOB, Mind Over Matter, Chocolate Poetry, Word Play and many other venues. He…

Chyrel J. Jackson & Lyris D. Wallace are Literary visionaries. Reared in the South Suburbs outside Chicago. African American Literature influenced their writing and is one of their favorite genres. Jackson & Wallace write in the spirit of their past great Literary ancestors. 2021 & 2023 garnered Chyrel & Lyris…

Ryan Quinn Flanagan is a Canadian-born author living in Elliot Lake, Ontario, Canada with his wife and many bears that rifle through his garbage. His works can be found both in print and online in such places as: Evergreen Review, The New York Quarterly, Cultural Weekly, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, and…

Lisa is a multi-disciplinary storyteller. She is a singer/songwriter (Ropeadope Records), essayist (Huffington Post, Kweli Journal, Family Stories Project, Chicken Soup for the Soul, AfroElle), and published poet currently based in Italy. The American debut of NoteSpeak was at the Zee Jaipur Literature Festival in Boulder Co. in September 2017.…

Kwantum Peakz (KP) is the moniker of an established slam poet who made his artistic debut in late 2018. He quickly became a regular mainstay at the Urban Legends Poetry Collective slam poetry and open mic events. They attracted a number of emerging slam poets as well as many of…

Author/Poet Samuel Rain Benjamin aka Complicated Passions, creator of the Passions Private Collection and Dark Man Blues the series, has written over 40 books including “Love and the Conversation, The Clone in Me & The Foreplay Series” he has also performed across the country from Los Angeles to New York,…

Jake St. John lives in the woods on the edge of the Salmon River. He is the author of several collections of poetry including Ring of Fog (Holy and Intoxicated Publications, 2022), Night Full of Diamonds (Whiskey City Press, 2021), and Lost City Highway (A Jabber Publication, 2019). He is…

Jerry Lovelady is an American poet, a Texas native living in Beaumont, Texas where he teaches High School English. He is married to his lovely wife of 27 years, Kristi, who is the subject of many of his poems. Jerry has two books out, the first in 2021 titled Other…

Aaron Poochigian earned a PhD in Classics from the University of Minnesota and an MFA in Poetry from Columbia University. His thriller in verse, Mr. Either/Or, was released by Etruscan Press in the fall of 2017, and the sequel, Mr. Either/Or: All the Rage, is out this June. A recipient…

Francis DiClemente is an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker who lives in Syracuse, New York. He is the author of multiple poetry collections, most recently The Truth I Must Invent (Poets’ Choice, 2023) and Outward Arrangements: Poems (independently published, 2021). His writing has also appeared in Evening Street Review, Bewildering Stories, Narratively,…

Mark Fishbein (Poet With Guitar) was born in Brooklyn, NY. He got a BA in Literature from CCNY in 1970, and attended the Sorbonne in Paris for French Literature. Rejecting an academic life, he found a career in the flourishing screen printing and t-shirt dyeing industry, raising a family in…

Siobhan Clover is a writer born and raised in Sussex County, Delaware and recently featured in the 2023 Delaware Bards Poetry Review. She first began her artistic journey in school plays starting at age nine, studying performance and theatrical production the entirety of her secondary education. Her first year of…

The QLPOR podcast welcomes John Guzlowski and Michael Lee Johnson as esteemed guests. John Guzlowski brings a profound depth to his work, drawing inspiration from his family's history during World War II. His poems resonate with powerful reflections on war, survival, and the resilience of the human spirit. Michael Lee…

Author Nicole Gillespie of Kansas City, Mo., is the proud author of: Transparent Moments and Mirror’s Reflections. Gillespie’s books’ landed her The People Choice Awards for “Best Author” in her city and 5 star ratings via Amazon. Gillespie has been featured on Quintessential Listening: Poetry Radio online and she appeared…

Hazel-Ann Lynch is an up and coming serial writer and networker. Born in Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies. Hazel transports herself to numerous other locations through her vivid imagination and vicariously through her over 75 pen-pals around the world. Hazel-Ann has an upper-cut sense of humor and desires to bring…

Richard W. Spisak jr. He began his work as a professional artist in the studio of Mel Tanner of Lumonics, studying performance Light art. Then Richard worked with the Lumist Kenvin Lyman of Dazzleland Studios, who had earned the first Doctorate of Lumia granted by the Sorbonne. Then Richard earned…