Words and Shit

Join Rooster and Chibbi as they welcome Chicana poet Karla Cordero into the Words and Shit studio. Tune in live to be part of the conversation and get to know the person behind the poetry! Karla Cordero is a Chicana poet, educator, and ARTtivist, raised along the borderlands of Calexico, CA. As a performing artist, Karla is the 2013 Grand Slam Champion, aiding the Elevated San Diego Slam Team to r...

San Antonio poetry institution Anthony "The Poet" Flores drops by the Words and Shit studio to spit some poems and share some stories. Tune in live to get to know the person behind the poetry and be part of the conversation! Anthony "The Poet" Flores is a 3-time San Antonio Grand Slam Poetry Champion who has represented our city in competition on six different occasions at the National Poetry Slam...

This week powerhouse poet Glori B drops into the Words and Shit studio to share some words and wisdom! Join Chibbi and Raqui and tune in live to get to know the person behind the poetry! Glori B. is the stage name of Gloria C. Adams, a poet, teacher, mother, and leader in the Austin slam scene. She has competed on Final Stage at the National Poetry Slam, the Women of the World Poetry Slam, and Tex...

Mason Granger drops into the Words and Shit studio to talk about his work with the youth, his digital projects, his life as the mortar, and his future! Mason Granger is a poet with 15+ years of professional experience on stage & in classrooms across 49 states and six countries. He created the poetry video platform SlamFind as a way to connect poets & poetry fans with live poetry venues aro...

This week, RADI stops by the Words and Shit studio to drop some poems and knowledge! Def Jam Poet and author of One Name, All CAPS; RADI, is an artist, teacher, workshop facilitator, & award winning writer specializing in spoken word. Her work covers topics such as Civil rights, body/sex positivity, colorism, sexism & more, all while reflecting her real life experiences as a fat black lesb...

Join Chibbi and Rooster in conversation and celebration with Xavier Alexander! Xavier is an indigenous Caribbean Afro-Latino Virgo who love smoking blunts, his dog papi and video games. He like to think of himself as the dash of hot sauce in the soup of life.

Joining us this week, Brandon Alexander Williams drops into the studio to share some work and talk about life, hip hop, teaching, and so much more. Tune in live to get to know the person behind the poetry!   Born in Maywood and raised in Peoria, Illinois, Brandon Alexander Williams is a poet, MC and DJ. He is the most recent recipient of the Grant Wood Fellowship and subsequently named the fi...

Join Chibbi and Raqui as they meet, talk poetry, and shoot the sh*t with the phenomenal Seema Reza. Seema Reza is a poet and essayist and the author of the poetry collection A Constellation of Half-Lives (Write Bloody Publishing) and the memoir When the World Breaks Open (Red Hen Press). Based outside of Washington DC she is the CEO of Community Building Art Works, an arts organization that encour...

Join Chibbi and Raqui as they meet, talk poetry, and shoot the sh*t with the incredible Chen Chen and Sam Herschel Wein. Sam Herschel Wein (he/they) is a Chicago based poet who specializes in perpetual frolicking. They work in queer healthcare and boop around the city on their bike. Their first chapbook, Fruit Mansion (Split Lip Press, 2017) was selected as the winner of the 2016 Turnbuckle Chapbo...

Join hosts Chibbi & Rooster as they feature the incredible Lady Brion for a night of poetry and conversation. Tune in live to get to know the person behind the poetry and be part of the conversation!   Lady Brion is an international spoken word artist, poetry coach, activist, organizer, and educator, teaching creative writing at the middle and elementary school level, coaching poetry team...

Join hosts Chibbi & Raqui as they feature the illustrious Suzi Q Smith for a night of poetry and conversation. Tune in live to get to know the person behind the poetry and be part of the conversation!   Suzi Q. Smith is an award-winning artist, activist, and educator who lives in Denver, Colorado. Her collection of poems, A Gospel of Bones, is available from Alternating Current Press, and...

This week Chibbi and Raqui broadcast LIVE from the Bbaravado Ink Book Fair in Galveston, TX, sharing work and having conversation with the featured writers, including Torrina Harris, LeChell "The Shootah," Kenji Lockett, Aris Kian and Lupe Mendez! Check it out to hear about their latest work, projects, and what the future holds for each of them.

Hosts Rooster & Raqui welcome award winning poet Analicia Sotelo to the Words and Shit studio!   Analicia Sotelo is the author of Virgin, the inaugural winner of the Jake Adam York Prize, selected by Ross Gay for Milkweed Editions (2018) and the chapbook, Nonstop Godhead, selected by Rigoberto González for Poetry Society of America. The poem “I’m Trying to Write a Poem About a Virgin...

Join hosts Chibbi & Rooster as they feature the new Houston Poet Laurette Outspoken Bean for a night of poetry and conversation. Tune in live to get to know the person behind the poetry and be part of the conversation! The New Jersey born, San Antonio raised, H-Town based military brat was introduced to the arts and world cultures at a very young age and has not let go of it. "An energetic pio...

Join hosts Chibbi & Raqui as they kick off season 3 of Words and Sh*t with the San Antonio Poet Laureate Andrea "Vocab" Sanderson, to talk about what she's been up to in the past year and a half, despite the pandemic, and what she still has planned! Tune in live to get to know the person behind the poetry! Andrea Sanderson, San Antonio, TX. Poet Laureate 2020-2023, performs as “Vocab” in her h...

Join hosts Chibbi and Raqui as we welcome Meccamorphosis to the Words and Sh*t stage! Streaming Live, tune in to get to know the person behind the poetry! Mecca Verdell is a Baltimore-based poet and performer of Dewmore Baltimore. When she started her poetry career in 2016, Mecca won Brave New Voices, an international youth poetry slam. She’s also been a radio show host for two Baltimore-based rad...

Join hosts Chibbi and Raqui as we welcome Buddy Wakefield to the Words and Sh*t stage! Get to know the person behind the poetry! Buddy Wakefield is an actor, writer, producer, and three-time world champion spoken word artist featured on the BBC, HBO’s Def Poetry Jam, ABC Radio National and has been signed to both Sage Francis’ Strange Famous Records as well as Ani DiFranco’s Righteous Babe Records...

Join hosts Chibbi and Raqui as we welcome Kevin Kantor to the Words and Sh*t stage! Streaming Live, tune in to get to know the person behind the poetry! Kevin Kantor (they/them) is a trans-non-binary poet and theatre-maker working to deconstruct and reimagine the semiotics of gender on stage and in performance. Kevin has toured nationally with their poetry, performing & leading workshops at co...

We’re doing something a little different tonight: with the season almost done, we want to take a moment to check in with each other and with you! Tune in tonight to ask your own questions to our hosts! Get to know Chibbi and Raqui a little better, hear some of their work, and talk about life.

Akeem Olaj can be called a modern day Renaissance man. He was one of the founding members of the New Orleans Youth Slam and Slam New Orleans (Team S.N.O.), winners of the 2010 National Group Piece Competition, the & the 2012 and 2013 winners of the National Poetry Slam Competition. Other Titles that he won with Team S.N.O. include the 2016 Southern-fried Team poetry champion, the 2016 And the...

Join hosts Chibbi and Rooster as we welcome Claude Cardona (she/ they) to the Words and Sh*t stage! Tune in to get to know the person behind the poetry! Claude Delfina Cardona is a poet born and raised in San Antonio, Texas. She received her BA from St. Mary's University and her MFA in Creative Writing from Texas State University. In 2013, she co-founded Chifladazine alongside Laura Valdez, a zine...

Join hosts Chibbi and Raqui as we welcome Asia Samson to the Words and Sh*t stage! Streaming Live, tune in to get to know the person behind the poetry! Asia Samson is a professional spoken word artist from Florida and has toured over 1000 colleges across the country since 2006. He’s been seen on HBO Def Poetry Jam, Ted Talks, Button Poetry, NPR’s Tiny Desk Contest and So Far Sounds. He has worked...

Join hosts Chibbi and Rooster as we welcome Josh Nguyen to the Words and Sh*t stage! Streaming Live, tune in to get to know the person behind the poetry! Joshua Nguyen is a bisexual Vietnamese-American writer, a collegiate national poetry slam champion (CUPSI), and a native Houstonian. He is the author of the chapbook, "American Lục Bát for My Mother" (forthcoming, March 2021, Bull City Press) and...

Join hosts Chibbi and Raqui as we welcome Natalia Trevino to the Words and Sh*t stage! Streaming Live on The Blah Poetry Spot's page, tune in to get to know the person behind the poetry! Born in Mexico City, Natalia grew up in Texas where her mother taught her Spanish, and Bert and Ernie gave her lessons in English. Her work captures the voices and lives of women who emerge despite everything that...

Join hosts Chibbi and Raqui as we welcome Jay Ward to the Words and Sh*t stage! Get to know the person behind the poetry! Jay Ward is a poet and teaching artist from Charlotte, NC. He is a National Slam champion (2018) and an Individual World Poetry Slam champion (2019). Jay currently serves as a Program Director for BreatheInk, where he facilitates writing and performance workshops and coaches yo...