Quintessential Poetry

  Bio: The Write Blend is a unique, culturally diverse poetry ensemble of six poets whose poetry is published in a new collection of poems, entitled “The Write Blend.” The poetry ensemble has most recently been featured on Poets vs Pandemic sponsored by Café Muse and Word Works Organizations. The Write Blend has read at the Library of Congress for the Maryland State Poet Laureate, Grace Cavalieri’...

Sarah Lipton-Sidibeh, BA Honours, LLCM, FRSA, was born in London, England. She has written three volumes of short stories, three volumes of poetry, a play, a children's book, film scripts, song lyrics and two educational textbooks. Three of her short stories were broadcast on the radio. Her poetry has been published in numerous anthologies. She received an award from The Poetry Society, England, f...

Kenneth C. Steven grew up in Highland Perthshire in the heart of Scotland, and now lives in Argyll on the country’s west coast; it’s these landscapes that have inspired the lion’s share of both his poetry and prose. He is best-known as a poet. Fourteen of his collections have been published over the years, and individual poems have appeared in top literary journals across the globe. Much of his po...

Kenneth C. Steven grew up in Highland Perthshire in the heart of Scotland, and now lives in Argyll on the country’s west coast; it’s these landscapes that have inspired the lion’s share of both his poetry and prose. He is best-known as a poet. Fourteen of his collections have been published over the years, and individual poems have appeared in top literary journals across the globe. Much of his po...

Thandiwe McMillan is a young poet, author, artist and actress from New York City. She’s been writing poetry and short stories since her childhood and her poems were #1 on Teen Ink, during adolescence. She attended Swarthmore College and spent her last semester developing her poetry and writing with Philadelphia Poetry Laureate Trapeta Mayson. After graduating in May 2020 with a B.A in Theater, she...

Jacinta V. White is a teaching artist, coach, facilitator, and entrepreneur. She's the founder of The Word Project and the Publishing Editor-in Chief, for the international quarterly, Snapdragon: A Journal of Art & Healing. Her most recent collection, Resurrecting the Bones: Born from a Journey through African American Churches & Cemeteries in the Rural South, published in 2019 (Press 53) has rece...

Katarina Canyon is a BIPOC, Award Winning Poet, Best Selling Author, civil rights activist, essayist, and poet. She grew up in Los Angeles and much of her writing reflects that experience. Her first book of poetry, Changing the Lines, was released in August 2017. This work is a conversation between mother and daughter as they examine what it means to operate within the world as black women. Kateri...

Gretchen Primack is a poet, educator, and indie bookseller living in New York's Hudson Valley. She has taught and/or administrated  prison education programs since 2006. Primack has authored three poetry collections: Kind (Lantern Publishing); Visiting Days (Willow Books),  which imagines a maximum-security men's NYS prison like the ones where she's taught; and Doris' Red Spaces (Mayapple Press),...

Gerry LaGuardia Leonard writes in poetic prose, storytelling about the state of today’s world. She claims to have always walked the paths of altruism and artistic pursuits. Today, she defines herself as an emerging poet, adding it to her accomplishments as wife, mother, drama student, pottery artist and a fifteen-year career as a Certified Chemical Dependency/Relapse Specialist, instructing in Nor...

World Poetry Day was adopted as 21 March by UNESCO in 1999. It is an invitation to reflect on the power of language and the full development of each person’s creative abilities. It also supports linguistic diversity through poetic expression and offers endangered languages the opportunity to be heard within their communities (https://globaldimension.org.uk/). Over the years, it has become the larg...

Kelly Bradley is a tech writer and Sr. Product Manager in the Washington DC area where she writes stories and creates apps based on data. She wrote her first poem in Second grade, a requiem to her cat, Petey. Her first collection, published by FootHills Publishing, “love, loss and the enormity of it all” addresses themes of grief, joy, love, heartbreak and perseverance. When not working or writing...

Mysti S. Milwee is an International award-winning and published synesthesia artist (paints to music), poetess, writer, screenwriter, book cover art designer, and illustrator from Southside, Alabama. She is the editor and publisher of Sequoyah Cherokee River Journal. She has Native American background and is a Sequoyah-Cherokee translator. Her poetry, writings, and visual art has been published in...

Amy Jean is a dreamer, a poet, a mother, and a writer with compelling stories to share. Her exploratory books peel back the layers of social justice, spiritual awakening, and her quest for an authentic life. As an entrepreneur, Amy spent several years growing a cleaning company in North Carolina. She recently started Jean Publications, LLC, and seeks to share forward-thinking, unique works of art...

Kim B Miller’s poetry is inspirational, her words are bold and she is unapologetically blunt. Kim is the Poet Laureate for Prince William County. She is the First African American Poet Laureate for PWC, VA.  Her poems have been published in African Voices magazine, a Portuguese book, a DC newspaper, an interfaith anthology and several magazines and books. Kim performed at The National Black Theate...

BIO Jerry T. Johnson is a Poet and Spoken Word Artist whose poetry has appeared in a variety of literary publications worldwide including: Burning Word Literary Journal, great weather for MEDIA 2017 & 2020 Anthologies, The Long Islander, Straylight Literary Journal, Here Comes Everyone, Drunk Monkeys, Blue Lake Review and many more. In addition to his published work, Jerry also features at many Sp...

Bio: Kay Bell is the author of two poetry collections: Cry Sweat Bleed Write published by Lily Poetry Review Books and Diary of an Intercessor published by Finishing Line Press. She earned a BA in English and an MFA in Creative Writing at The City College of New York (CUNY) where she also served as a poetry mentor in the Poetry Outreach program. Kay lives in the Bronx, New York and is passionate a...

Jackie Oldham is a writer from Baltimore, Maryland, focused on poetry, essays, and short stories. Her poetry and essays appear mainly on her personal blog, baltimoreblackwoman.com on WordPress. These writings led to invitations to read her work at local venues [Ikaros Restaurant, Baltimore, MD (2018 and 2019); Beth Am Synagogue Poetry Shabbat (2019 and 2020], for the Quintessential Listening: Poet...

Poet, Novelist, Public Speaker Brian Donnell James is the 2020 "United Nations" FAO World Food Day Poetry First Prize Winner, for his poem ”Testimony” which was read before a virtual audience of nearly a thousand attendants and broadcast worldwide. He is also a 2020 National Poetry Writing Month Award Winner and also placed second in the 2020 Write by the Rails Poetry Contest, sponsored by the Vir...

John Patrick Robbins, is the editor in chief of the Rye Whiskey Review, Under The Bleechers, The Black Shamrock Magazine, Crossroads Magazine, The Abyss. He is the Author of The Still Night Sessions Published by Whiskey City Press. His work has been published in Fearless Poetry Zine, Punk Noir Magazine, San Pedro River Review, The Dope Fiend Daily, Heroin Love Songs, 1870 Magazine, San Antonio Rev...

Join us as we pay special tribute to the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr. King, during his lifetime, confronted many issues that are still with us today. Ever the dreamer, he always taught that hope, courage, truth, service, respect, and dignity have no boundaries despite the obstacles. On Monday, January 18, 2021 at 8:00 PM (EST), please call into the show (646)-787-1631 and sha...

  Shakira Croce is a writer living in Brooklyn, New York. Leave It Raw (Finishing Line Press, 2020) is her debut poetry collection, featuring poems that explore the nuances of sexuality, marriage, motherhood, the arts, and ambition, speaking to relationships’ potential to hurt and heal. Each story offers bits of experience that provide an intimate glimpse of the intricacies of life. Croce’s poetry...

  AaronRPoems.com sponsors multiple poetry contests throughout the year. Hilton Lewis won the the December 2020 Poetically Correct contest. The other participants in the contest were Joel “King” Atterberry, Allyson Autrey (First Runner-Up), Farida Aziz, Jerome “J writezzz” Bradley, James Dean, Alatashe Kowale, and Deelynn Leigh.   The mission of Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio is to...

I’m a girl from a small rural village in Hungary. Growing up in humble but love filled surroundings, I always knew there’s more out there for me. In 2000 when I was 20, I moved to the UK and have created a new life that has been nothing less but incredible. I came a long way in the last 20 years. My family is my life, my husband and our two girls. Love, pure and simple. I’m a woman, a wife and a m...

Marianne Szlyk’s poems have appeared in of/with, bird’s thumb, Mad Swirl, Solidago, One-Sentence Poems, Bourgeon, Mike Maggio’s COVID-19 series, Sheila-na-gig, Verse Virtual, Cactifur, Music of the Aztecs, and Resurrection of a Sunflower, an anthology of work responding to Vincent Van Gogh’s art. Her new book, Poetry en Plein Air, is available from Pony One Dog Press and Amazon. She has also reviv...

jessica Care moore is the founder and CEO of Moore Black Press, executive producer of Black WOMEN Rock!, and founder of the literacy-driven, Jess Care Moore Foundation. An internationally renowned poet, playwright, performance artist, and producer, she is the 2019 and 2017 Knight Arts Award Winner, 2016 Kresge Arts Fellow,  NAACP Great Expectations Awardee, and an Alain Locke Award recipient from...