The Poets

Welcome back to the show, the one and only Sleepy. Sleepy is a dreamer the spirit world has decided to keep wide awake. With no other options to escape reality, he’s infiltrated the poet community in Denver to talk shit, build community, and help create a world that doesn’t need escaping from. Learn more about the Blackbird Renaissance:  Instagram   Youtube   Discord Picture by  @absolutemoment —...

Ryan is a poet who was born someplace, lives somewhere else and writes primarily about some things but not other things — and most of all, he absolutely despises any sort of mystery or vaguery. He doesn't have patience for that sort of silliness. Not one bit. In this episode: 1. Speechless (0:22) 2. Milk Soap (2:38) 3. Note to Self (2:47) 4. In Miami (8:26) 5. Swimming in a Tar Pit (10:11) 6....

Grim Vorhees is a Chicago Born, Denver Based Creative that is exploring and experience art in whatever form manifests in his present moments. A community leader that strives to curate evolutionary environments that promote love, respect, and courage to be authentically yourself. His brand Good Vibes Only is one of the many platforms he uses to connect with people of all backgrounds who share his p...

Marcus Aguirre aka MarcusThaPoet joins The Poets to share music, poetry, and deep thought. We talk about his poetry, songwriting, improv, performance style and development, finding heritage, the Earth, mushrooms, love, and so much more. Find Marcus streaming on all platforms under the name MarcusThaPoet and find him on IG , TikTok , and Snapchat @MarcusThaPoet. You can listen to Marcus' song N...

Chasing immortality #kingofcongress Welcome back Moses Graytower to the show. Buckle up, folks—we ended up down the rabbit hole in the best way on this one. Check out Moses' album ⁠Congress⁠ and find him around town at open mics like the Corner Beat on Monday nights and the Mercury Cafe on Fridays and other nights. Also, a correction—at one point in the conversation I say Steven Kotler worked...

William Howell is an artist and musician in Denver. He's spent most of his life doing nothing, which continues to be the main source of inspiration for his art.  If you're interested in his upcoming projects, you can find him on Instagram @runofthewill. — In this episode: 1. Highway (0:22); 2. Into Blue (3:43); 3. Love Poem to My Trumpet (4:49); 4. Questions no. 5 (6:48); 5. Prison Visit (...

Philip Tran is a queer poet from Denver, collage artist, paper engineer, florist, handyman, roller derby initiate, and emcee who regularly hosts events and variety shows, and 4th Friday’s hosting the long running weekly poetry open mic at The Mercury Cafe. He is also a dad joke connoisseur. Find his podcast “From My Open Mic” on Spotify for live recordings. In 2023 he launched Bound By The Beat, a...

Jonny Schreiber loves to create and engage with art in all of its forms and can be described as a poet, musician, comedian, DJ, storyteller, (aspiring) author, (passable) dancer, and (extremely mediocre to below average) drawer (is that even a word??). He likes to think that he is extremely talented at following detailed recipes to cook meals for his friends and family, having abstract existential...

Find Q's spoken word album, A Son Never Forgets - Ashe, on Bandcamp Quincy Hull (aka “Q”) has been writing poetry for over 30 years, and has been a member of the Still Black See Writers’ and Artists’ Guild for over 20 years. He has traveled extensively, reading and speaking at venues across the nation, including colleges from UWF and FSU to the University of Illinois, Loras College (Dubuque, I...

Racine Frank began writing poetry in December 2019 during her time as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Ethiopia. She started by writing haikus and then branched into free verse poetry incorporating rhyming schemes. From an early age, she traveled to and lived in multiple countries with Ethiopia being a time of tremendous growth and transformation. Her writing surrounds the power of love - not only for o...

Welcome Brandon Doulos Garett to The Poets. Writer, actor, poet, podcaster. Check out Brandon on TikTok and on his Podcast, Self Centered Therapy Also, check out the Something Different Variety Show for information about upcoming shows. — Questions? Comments? Want to be featured? Email thepoetspodcast@gmail.com

Emily Wiecec returns to The Poets to share new and old poetry, and for a discussion on the darkness and healing that lives within the human experience. ALSO, if you are listening to this on December 31st, 2023 (or any year) the Mercury Cafe New Year's Eve Erotic Poetry Festival is TONIGHT at 7:00pm. $15 entry. 2199 California St, Denver CO. Today's episode contains discussions about domest...

David Price joins The Poets to share poems on love, grief, politics, and protest. We discuss his history and future with the Mercury Cafe as well as the questions both behind and within his work. David talks inspirations from the crowd, from his life, and from entire letter sections of the dictionary. Work on several of David's projects including poetry collections and an urban fantasy novel i...

Hridith Sudev is a public-health scientist, writer, poet and community organizer. Born in India, and raised in Oman, Sudev migrated to the United States in 2018 to pursue higher education in Denver, where he has lived ever since. For the past 10 years, Sudev has worked  in both governmental and non-governmental capacities to expand healthcare access to historically marginalized communities and cre...

Chef, poet, human. Follow Tariq on IG @tarooksalem — Questions? Comments? Want to be featured? Email thepoetspodcast@gmail.com

The Poets took a bit of a holiday break, but we're back today with the lovely and talented Ash Avery. Thanks for listening, and more to come! — Ash’s writing is inspired by their (mis)adventures in fringe living, efforts to balance disparate identities, and compulsion to psychoanalyze uniquely human experiences (for better and worse). Ash has been a social worker, circus artist, amateur skateb...

Aerik Francis is a Queer Black & Latinx poet based in Denver, CO. They are the author of the poetry chapbook MISEDUCATION (NDR 2023), named the winner of the 2022 New Delta Review Chapbook Prize, and poetry chapbook BODYELECTRONIC (Trouble Department 2022) which is available also in audiobook form on all streaming platforms under their artist pseudonym  phaentompoet . Check out their website ...

JohnnyOsi is a fuzzy ball of lint, tickling the belly button of a collapsing galactic lotus, that smells like death. He is also a National Poetry Slam Finalist, an Individual World Poetry Slam Finalist, a Slaughterhouse Slam Champion, whose work has been featured on Button Poetry, Write About Now, and All Def Poetry. — Find more from Johnny at his website and on Instagram @johnnyosi — In this epis...

Ellie Dawson-Moore is a poet, soon-to-be novelist, and model based in Boulder, Colorado. Originally from Minneapolis, she moved to Colorado to attend the University of Colorado Boulder, where she studies creative writing with a minor in education. On this episode we discuss some of her inspirations—the morbid and the sappy—along with gothic horror, Greek mythology, and selling organs to make ends...

I began sharing spoken word poetry in Aug 2022. It began as journal entries and took more structure when I started doing open mics. This exploration of myself happened when I realized the many categories I exist in. Viewing myself as the runner Renée, the academic Renée, the friend Renée, the employee Renée, etc—and the writer Renée. Most of the categories are defined by how others view me, but th...

Former features Sleepy and Andrew Bryson return to the show for a discussion of the occult, death, the collective unconscious, poetic inspirations, and some bald guy. — Sleepy is a dreamer the spirit world has decided to keep wide awake. With no other options to escape reality, he’s infiltrated the poet community in Denver to talk shit, build community, and help create a world that doesn’t need es...

On this episode, former feature Jase West reappears and is joined by Sojo. Together, we discuss god (God?) in all forms of art and the human experience, as well as the process of surrendering to find the beauty in our lives. How to let go in order to receive abundance. We also dip our toes into some conspiracy talk. — Sojo is a multimedia artist who is passionate about investing herself into many...

Find more of Jacob's work at his website and see more from his publishing company, Static Publishing, on IG @staticpublishing . — Jacob S. Friedman is a writer, philosopher, mathematician, and the author of  Shorts ,  An Interesting Book,  and  My Typewriter Hates the Government But I Don’t,  among others. His first two works, collections of poems, employed a method of immersion in the natural...

Hello dear person! My name is Ezra. I’m an old soul born in Bailey, Colorado where I grew up with one older brother and a single mom.  I was first introduced to poetry through my mother’s brother, Andrew Medan Karp. After Andrew took his own life in 1977, my grandmother consolidated his journals of writing into a poetry book entitled  Winds of Silent Mystery.  I read it cover to cover many times w...

My name is Jeremy Muriungi. I'm Kenyan. I moved to Spokane, WA from Nairobi, Kenya in 2014 to pursue my bachelor's degree. My academic journey has been 8 years in the making. I finally got my B.S. in Computer Science in Dec. 2022. I moved to Denver in August 2023 to start a new job. I rekindled my poetic fire/spark in 2019 and found community at Neato Burrito in Spokane where Broken Mic, a...