The Poet Speaks Podcast

Born in Chennai, India, Shivram Gopinath is a poet who has called Singapore a home since 2002. His work has been heard at Singapore Writers Festival, Borobudur Cultural and Writers Festival, Jaipur Literary Festival and more. He has taught workshops structured around poetic identity at the Haque Centre of Acting and Creativity, and is a twice-winning Singapore National Poetry Slam champion. He is...

Remember the time when your grandparents used to tell you stories about "back in their day", or even about places, and festivals they went to? On this week's podcast we are ecstatic to bring to you, Baakhan Nyane waa. Baakhan Nyane waa are a group of volunteers in Nepal that is giving oral traditions back to younger generations by bringing out elders of the community to story tell to the people. T...

Welcome to the podcast, Jordan Smith! Jordan has been in the Japanese poetry community on various projects, serving as Editor-in-Chief for Tokyo Poetry Journal and co-founder of KOTOBA, the national poetry slam of Japan. He produces programs for BBC Radio 4 on Japanese poetry and culture, with some of the projects turning into book projects (Sea of Trees: Poetic Gateways to Aokigahara). Author of...

Smriti Shrestha is a Nepali poet, writer and student. Listen to this brand new episode as Amanda and her talk about everything from taking your power on stage as you perform your poetry, to how to let your emotions out as a Spoken Word Artist!

We welcome Stephanie Dogfoot to the podcast! Stephanie, (they/she) is a poet, performer and producer. A former Singapore and UK national slam champion, their first poetry collection, Roadkill for Beginners explores placemaking, found family, growing up and generally just really good times in abandoned buildings and around bonfires. Their poetry has been featured at literary and music festivals aro...

On this week's podcast we have Nigerian born and bred poet, Oyereyi! Oyereyi is a new age griot , her passion for poetry and the art of spoken word goes way back to her latter years in secondary school. A closet page poet for years; Oyereyi only began performing her poems in 2015 and has since been described as a revolutionary poet with a style branded as audacious, evocative and electrifying. As...

We welcome to the podcast Saras Chari! Saras is a poet, writer, translator and poetry instructor based in Kathmandu, Nepal. He is often found flaunting his T-shirt that says, "Poet, but paid.", and performs with a black scarf around his head, two things that he believes works as an artistic statement. He tries out different experiments with poetry along with his close friends at Kavindrapur, an ex...

We welcome to the podcast Anne Marie Wells! (She | They) is a queer poet, playwright, and storyteller navigating the world with a chronic illness. She is a faculty member of the Community Literature Initiative poetry publishing program through the Sims Library of Poetry. Her prose and poems have been published in many places including the Santa Fe Writers Project, Brain Mill Press, The Dallas Revi...

We welcome to the podcast, Toluwanimi Obiwole! Nigerian born, Colorado- raised multidisciplinary artist, and scholar. Toluwanimi is Denver's very first Youth Poet Laureate as well as a two time TEDx Mile High speaker along with being an author of numerous published international anthologies and poetry books. Her poetry is a reflection of her ancestry, the rituals of healing in her present, and the...

Welcome to the very first episode of, The Poet Speaks Podcast. Get to know host, Amanda Eke. Amanda is a Nigerian American Artist, Spoken Word Artist, Poet, Film-Maker, and Scholar. A Fulbright and UN Award winner and author, she uses both her love for poetry, film, writing and music to address socio- political issues, and contemporary culture prevalent in society today. Her globally touring works...