When We’re Poetic: Recent Episodes
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A Black King and Queen coming together to discuss and dissect different types of literature. Instagram: WWPoeticpodcast Facebook: When We’re Poetic
A conversation on cooperative efforts to gain influence and power
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Sharing the things we’re grateful for this year
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A candid conversation on the position that When We’re Poetic’s hosts take on the swelling problem of immigration in the U.S.
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Ghost dances and ghosts over boiler.....oh my!
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Two poems on abortion from the pens of Black women
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Our thought provoking journey of “prison” poetry.
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Black socials…when they go right and when they go left.
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Our reality In curated spaces
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Relocation and it’s affects on personal fulfillment
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Elmo got COVID and I want $1,050.00…
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From Heat waves to Prince’s birthday
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From Biggie’s Birthday to Juneteenth Ice cream
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We missed you too! Back with some new content. A quick 10 questions touching on current events and personal insights.
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A discussion on the differences in measurement on progress in the the Black Community.
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Celebrating Women’s History Month, melanated.
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Keith and I discuss strategies on how to remain sucker free amidst harmful media depictions.
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Consuming “Sweet Sugarcane” with Gloria Naylor and listening to Akua Lezli Hope tell us what to do with horns that fit. Grown folks talking.
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While riding through the dirty streets of Baltimore, Keith and I discuss the importance of nutrition. Join us while we share our concerns about the lack of values surrounding fine dining and prioritizing the basics of nutrition to embrace health in our lives.
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Reviewing the importance of names with a poem by Assetou Xango and an article by Maria Konnikova.
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Thoughts on an unexpected hidden gem in the bustling city limits…
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Celebrate Kwanzaa with us. Quick daily reflections for an awesome 7 days.
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Celebrate Kwanzaa with us. Quick daily reflections for an awesome 7 days.
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Celebrate Kwanzaa with us. Quick daily reflections for an awesome 7 days.
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Celebrate Kwanzaa with us. Quick daily reflections for an awesome 7 days.
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Celebrate Kwanzaa with us. Quick daily reflections for an awesome 7 days.
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Celebrate Kwanzaa with us. Quick daily reflections for an awesome 7 days.
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Celebrate Kwanzaa with us. Quick daily reflections for an awesome 7 days.
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Keith and I sharing gratitude for you listeners and our plans to produce more content. Love you all!
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Another innocent night out on the town only to face the need for believed White superiority to disrupt our comfort and insert reminders of horrific experiences our ancestors endured because of their ancestor's greed. Can we get a break ya'll???
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Exploring fears that plague our community and stunt our growth as a people with Etheridge Knight’s “A Fable” and Audre Lorde’s “A Litany for Survival”.
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A conversation about interrupted Black dialogue.
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Scary times with “Haunted Oak” by Paul Laurence Dunbar and “Halloween in Anthropocene, 2015” Craig Santos Perez.
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Two great Native Poets, in their own words. "Becoming Human" with Simon J. Ortiz and "Love Lessons in a Time of Settler Colonialism" with Tanaya Winder.
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When speaking on or of Harriet Tubman, there are requirements - who better qualified than Frederick Douglass…?
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A interesting observation of the pattern of Eurocentric based American behavior when a romantically connected free and natural Black couple enters the room.
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Join us for a night at an exclusive meeting with Dutty Boukman praying over us and another militant prayer/poem by Jacques Romain.
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An extended conversation hair and it’s connection to self love
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A continued conversation on Juneteenth
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Discussing Excerpts from Yogi Bhajan’s “Ancient Art of Self Healing” book and poem “To Those of My Sisters who kept Their Naturals” by Gwendolyn Brooks.
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Bonus Content for the When We’re Poetic Podcast Community. Your favorite podcasters share intimate discussions.
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The fireworks Show ignited by Frederick Douglass and Langston Hughes
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Diving into the romanticism of truth hiding in plain sight of “freedom” and the poeticism of George M. Horton.
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A meeting of the minds in Tupac Amaru II and Tupac Amaru Shakur.
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You’re invited to a Tragic comedy with Dick Gregory in Bombingham, Alabama and then chill with Morgan Freeman while he recites Nelson Mandela’s favorite poem “Invictus”.
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Exploring Environmental Terrorism with Poet Nikki Giovanni and the Father of Environmental Justice Robert Bullard.
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A trip to the 1964 Berlin Jazz Festival with Martin L. King Jr.’s essay and a question filled pow wow with Amiri Baraka’s Somebody Blew Up America Jazz Poem
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The importance of FUBU with Langston Hughes’ Note on Commercial Theater and Jean Dominique’s editorial “Bon Appetit, Monssieurs”
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Discussion of Josephine Baker’s Speech at March on Washington Alice Walker’s “Be Nobody’s Darling”
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Discussing “On Women’s Rights” speech by Sojourner Truth and “Phenomenal Woman” by Maya Angelou
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A continued discussion on the concept of “We” held on episode 2 and tying that into the importance of revolutionary Black love with readings from a 1936 love letter penned by Charles Drew and a poem written by poet Storm.
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Discussion of Maya Angelou’s “On The Pulse of Morning” and Amanda Gorman’s “The Hill We Climb” - A... different perspective in this episode -- "We" who!!!??!!
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Discussion of Auld Lang Syne and Haitian Declaration of Independence
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