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In this podcast we discuss the places we 'see' poetry and where we could perhaps benefit from a little more poetry. Poet Thom Young from our recent poem postcard, Virgen, joins us. He was recently featured in a PBS News Hour story about his Instagram Poetry August 2017 - Seen Poetry File Size: 24422 kbFile Type: mp3Download File [...]

Laura Grimshaw and Salena Godden present a selection of poetry podcasts.We speak to Chris Gregory from Alternative Stories and Fake Realities about bringing words to life, and to Repeat Beat Poet from The Lunar Poetry Podcast about infusing poetry with meaning and messages.We also listen in to: Poetry Unbound The New Yorker Poetry Podcast The Poetry Exchange Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar The Slowdown with Ada Limon Frank Skinner's Poetry Podcast Roaring 20s Radio Poetry Extra The Verb

Here POETRY that touches the HEART!

We’re LOOKING BACK at Jazz Poetry. Jazz Poetry has celebrated the fusion of music and language for over 18 years.  Musicians and poets are brought together by City of Asylum to experiment, collaborate, connect and to express themselves freely, yielding performances greater than their parts . Over the years, Jazz Poetry has featured hundreds of artists from hundreds of countries. This episode is really special, an opportunity to dig through performances from the City of Asylum archive 2011-2019. Unless you were sitting in the audience at the COA tent, or Alphabet City, at any of these performances,  you’ve never heard these before. We’re really excited to share. We’ll Open with a performance by Sonia Sanchez from 2011. Then we’ll follow up with the incredible medley featuring Justin Philip Reed, Ilya Kaminsky,  Jenny Johnson, and Yusef Komunyakaa. All the music, the amazing jazz, is brought to you by Jazz Poetry musical director Oliver Lake and various musicians he’s recruited to join him across the years.