Pablo Speaks

I recently sat down with Guyanese writer and artist, Cosmata Lindie, to discuss her journey from home-schooled Berbice River Girl to emerging dynamic Creative in New Amsterdam, Guyana; a Creative  with captivating art exhibits in neighboring Suriname and  riveting short stories  on reputable digital magazines in the diaspora. Here is part one of our conversation.

Hello world,  Welcome to another episode of Pablo Speaks the podcast where words influence thoughts influence actions. I'm your host James Paul Sr aka Pablo.  And today, I will perform a narrative poem titled A Dark Street in Newark....it's essentially a eulogy for all lives lost prematurely and tragically in the Drug Game... the cold hard lesson of this piece is - it's much better to...

Hello World. In this episode, I will narrate the prologue and first Creolese poem from the manuscript of "I BIN DEH" which will be published by July 2024. Language is an integral part of every culture and words are integral parts of language. In this book I harness and unleash the power of Guyanese Creole (basilect, mesolect and acrolect Creolese) to create narrative poems that inspire,...

Hello world. Today, I switch into storyteller mode and share a terrifying borderline transphobic but mind-opening experience from my UBER DRIVER diary. Enjoy!

Hello world. Welcome to another provocative episode of Pablo Speaks, the podcast where words influence thoughts influence actions. I am your host, James Paul Sr aka Pablo And in today’s episode I narrate my futuristic essay that explores plausible i mplications of Populism, Global Warming & Super-intelligent AI. Is another global cataclysm imminent? And what about technological singularity and...

Welcome to another Bonus episode of Pablo Speaks, the podcast where words influence thoughts influence actions.  I'm your host, James Paul Sr aka Pablo.. And today I will present the third and final part of my urban essay - New Lots to White Plains. Part Three  takes you on a compelling visual journey through Harlem, Da Bronx and lower Westchester County to White Plains, NY, with flashbacks to...

Welcome to the final episode of Pablo Speaks in 2023 - the podcast where words influence thoughts influence actions.  I had originally planned to dedicate this final episode to "New Year Resolutions"...but the ancestors intervened and I was compelled to channel the atrocities of WAR into writing and sharing a protest chant.  How ironic is it that in this festive season of  Christmas when...

Welcome to another bonus episode of Pablo Speaks - the podcast where words influence thoughts influence actions. I am your host James Paul Sr aka Pablo and in today's podcast, I will narrate/share part-two of my three-part essay, "New Lots to White Plains - Urban Tales of NY City from the diary of James Paul Sr" I wrote this piece back in 2014, during my return to the New York City ,...

In this penultimate episode of 2023, Pablo shares a lyrical gem titled "Imagine" from his dub poetry video archive. The poem reminds us to dream and imagine a better, more compassionate world; that joy is a journey, not a destination. Have joyful week. AYO

In this episode, Pablo narrates part one of his three-part essay titled, "New Lots to White Plains". The year is 2014. The US economy sucks. Like many US citizens in their 40's, the American Dream has become a nightmare for Pablo. He is forced to close his failing retail business in Macon, GA. He is battling chronic autoimmune and cardiac conditions. But the bills have to be paid. An...

Written and narrated by the host, Pablo, "Dear Negro" invokes centuries of African pain, suffering and bondage, to remind descendants of enslaved Africans about the savagery and horrors of chattel, plantation slavery and anti-black racism of that era. The latter, anti-black racism, persists to this day in America and around the world. A world generally desensitized to the pain and suffer...

In this special bonus episode, Pablo engages Guyanese filmmaker, public intellectual and writer, Clairmont Chung, in a meaningful conversation about Mr Chung's recently published essay titled, "Saving the Essequibo from Becoming Another Gaza". Guyana sits on the northern coast of South America bordered by the Brazil, Venezuela, Surinam and the Caribbean Sea to the south, west, east a...

In this episode, I take a deep dive into the pith of the worst crime against humanity in history, chattel slavery, and make a strong case, lyrically, for reparative justice. Racism fueled chattel slavery then. Racism fueled the atrocities and lynchings of the Jim Crow era. Racism fuels police brutality, and the glaring racial disparities in wealth, homelessness, healthcare, education, access to ca...

Pablo breaks down the production process for Moon ah Run, his latest dub poetry single - branded as the battle of Guyanese creole vs hiphop - from idea and inspiration thru writing, curating and recording, to mixing, mastering, registering and releasing. Moon ah Run (by PablOGt) is streaming on Spotify and all major digital music platforms. I would appreciate your feedback on this bonus episode. I...

Greetings. A special episode to honor the five Guyanese soldiers who lost their lives in the line of duty in a tragic helicopter crash in the jungles of Essequibo, an oil-rich region of Guyana being claimed by Venezuela's president Nicolas Maduro, in defiance of international law and recent court rulings. We pray for the two survivors and grieve for the families and friends of the five brave w...

Welcome to the second episode of Pablo Speaks - the podcast where words are weaponized to inspire and edutain. A famous quote by Lord Buddha reads: “We are what we think, all that we are arises with our thoughts, with our thoughts we make the world.”  Or, as my Uncle Sam would say, “Thinking is everything.” Thinking is also the theme of my first featured poem titled, “Breaking the chains”. The bac...

Welcome message from the host. I will record and share a new, original piece of spoken word (narrative poetry, short story, interview, reading, commentary), weekly, on Sunday's. That's the plan. Let's go!