Poemify Podcast: Recent Episodes
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Creativity meets the law! Get insights on balancing artistry with intellectual property rights with Blessing Kolajo on The Fellowship.
This episode features a special guest, Patience Agada, a spoken-word poet and writer who lives in Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/poemify-podcast/message
Welcome to another captivating episode of the Poemify Podcast! Hosted by Oluwatosin Isaac, this episode features a special guest, Kalu Siza Amah, a talented Nigerian performance artist. He is a teaching assistant at the Department of African and African American Studies at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, and he teaches Poetry Performance at Osiri University, Nebraska-Lincoln, USA. His involvement in art cuts across performance, research writing, creative writing, and directing. Famous for his monologue of Shakespearean works, his poems have gone from page to stage.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/poemify-podcast/message
Welcome to another inspiring episode of the Poemify Podcast!I'm your host, Oluwatosin Isaac, and today we have a special guest who's about to take us on a poetic journey through the heart of Africa. Joining us is Caleb Mwangome, a talented Kenyan poet and writer who has crafted a self-published poetry collection titled 'Circle Of Perfection.''In this collection, Caleb delves into the profound themes of family, loss, and mental health, painting a vivid tapestry of emotions and experiences.Throughout this episode, Caleb will share his remarkable writing journey, offering us a glimpse into the creative process that brings his poetry to life. Moreover, we'll explore the powerful impact of poetry on the African continent and how it resonates with the diverse narratives and challenges that define this beautiful part of the world.So, sit back, relax, and prepare to be moved by the words and wisdom of Caleb Mwangome as we embark on this poetic adventure together. Stay tuned for an enriching conversation that will touch your heart and soul.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/poemify-podcast/message
Sophy Bless: A Creative Writer, Spoken Word Artiste, and Voiceover Artiste
Sophy Bless is a creative writer, spoken word artiste, and voiceover artiste. In this episode of Poemify Podcast, she talks to Oluwatosin Isaac about her creative writing journey, her life, and the impact art has on her.
Sophy shares that she has been writing for as long as she can remember. She started out writing poems and short stories, and eventually found her way to spoken word. She says that spoken word is a way for her to express herself in a more raw and unfiltered way.
Sophy also talks about the impact that art has had on her life. She says that art has helped her to heal from past trauma, to connect with her emotions, and to find her voice. She believes that art is a powerful tool for self-expression and healing.
In this episode, Sophy also shares some of her tips for aspiring creative writers. She says that it is important to be patient, to practice regularly, and to be open to feedback. She also encourages aspiring writers to find their own unique voice and to not be afraid to experiment.
This episode of Poemify Podcast is a must-listen for anyone who is interested in creative writing, spoken word, or the power of art. Sophy Bless is an inspiring and talented artist, and her story is sure to resonate with listeners.
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Seke Peace Reuben is a brilliant author, creative writer & editor, writing coach, pharmacist by profession, public Speaker, digital trainer, and virtual events host.
Seke Peace Reuben is the founder and cofounder respectively of; SPICE– Seke Peace Institute for Creatives and Entrepreneurs and EARLYVATE AFRICA, which is also that space where we are pushing to make a difference in academia.
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Damilola Jonathan Oladeji had his first degree from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife in Nigeria with Awards of Excellence. He received a Master’s Degree from the University of Pretoria, South Africa. He’s currently a Doctoral Candidate at the University of Pretoria and an IREBS foundation for African Real Estate Research Scholar. He is a writer who's passionate about creating the content that business owners need for their marketing funnels. He has written thousands of content pieces including brand stories, sales copy, website content, emails, and all kind of lead magnets. He's served businesses in health and wellness, real estate, retail, igaming, consulting, risk management, construction, cryptocurrency and web3 marketing, advertising and lots more.
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Today we'd be hosting Dr. Onyeka Chiemelie on Poemify Podcast for the 7th episode of Authors Interview with our host, Oluwatosin Isaac. Dr. Onyeka Chiemelie, CEO #KizzyserviceHub LTD, is a highly sought-after business growth strategist who, over the years, has helped small business owners and budding entrepreneurs add six and seven figures to their bottom line. He is a regular feature on RAVE TV Channel, The Sun Newspaper, Arise News TV, Galaxy Television, Tvc News, Channels Television, Nigerian magazines and hundreds of podcasts.Follow the link below to subscribe to Poemify Podcast on Spotify.https://spoti.fi/3q8ArCO#PoemifyPodcast #Poemify--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/poemify-podcast/message
Episode 5 of Poemify Podcast is the most inspiring and insightful episode so far. Like a tour guide, Osinayah Happyprince Agu took us on a tour of his adventure down the poetry path.Musings of a Madman, Osinayah Happyprince Agu's poetry concert is on Saturday, 20th May, 2023. Have you got your tickets? Buy now :https://tellerafricatickets.com/product/musing-of-a-madman-with-happyprince/#PoemifyPodcast #PoemifyPublishers #happyprince--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/poemify-podcast/message
Welcome to Poemify Podcast: the poetry and Arts Talk Show podcast, where we celebrate the beauty and diversity of African art. Our show features interviews with African artists, poets, and other creatives who draw inspiration from the rich cultural heritage of Africa. In each episode, our host engages in a lively discussion with our guests, delving into the inspiration behind their art, the cultural significance of their work, and the role of poetry and art in promoting and preserving African culture.So if you're a lover of art, poetry, or African culture, tune in to our podcast and join us on this exciting journey of discovery and creativity.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/poemify-podcast/message
Welcome to Poemify Podcast: The poetry and arts Talk Show podcast, where we celebrate the beauty and diversity of African art. On today's episode, our host, Oluwatosin Isaac interviews Nkasiobi Mbonu, a Nigerian poet, photographer, and author of '"Seashells", 2021 winning chapbook of the Pengician Poetry Chapbook Prize available on Poemify Bookstore.
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Poemify Podcast - Author Interview featuring Ella Obans
How can one maintain friendship for a long time? I have been thinking about how we define strong friendships. What solidifies the bound?
- Shared affinities?
- Shared past?
- Shared knowledge of personhood?
- A deep sense of feeling accepted by the other?
- Or is it something else?
I’ve heard a lot of people say that their dearest friends are the ones who’ve ultimately stuck around - the ones who stayed amidst all the madness. And I get it. I totally do. That is a prerequisite, more often than not. But in a world where friendship is more virtual than physical, how do we attract good friends, and how can one sustain the bond?
Joining us today is Ella Obans, the author of "Art of True Friendship". We'd be talking about the importance of friendship and how to attract the right friends.
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Welcome to Poemify Podcast: The poetry and arts Talk Show podcast, where we celebrate the beauty and diversity of African art. On today's episode, our host, Oluwatosin Isaac interviews Di MadWriter (Tochukwu Precious Eze), a Nigerian storywriter, poet, publisher, and author of numerous books, including 'Adaeze', 'Agu', and 'Hypnosis.'
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Poemify Podcast host, Oluwatosin Isaac interviews Nigerian poet, playwright, and author Iwu Jeff. He talks about his writing journey, hobbies, and the creative writing sphere in Africa.
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Welcome to Poemify Podcast: The poetry and arts Talk Show podcast, where we celebrate the beauty and diversity of African art. On today's episode, our host, Oluwatosin Isaac interviews Nigerian poet, playwright, and author Iwu Jeff. He talks about his book 'Verdict of the Gods', his writing journey, hobbies, and a lot more.
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This allegory relates the story of an evolving country, Nigeria, showing the different things she's personified to have done. Symbolism and metaphor help drive home the point that this country that we speak of, although has come a long way, has a whole lot of journey-ing left to do.
*"i love the way i’m stared at like the old photograph of a dead relative.
life is nothing but an upturned mud house, rattling with shades of darkness that cry within."*
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They come with a cupful of pinned promises
Singing songs of salvation to our weary ears
With these drowning drooling dreams
And ripping ripened realms
They came with bells of dismembered peace
To shred the rope of our unison in pieces
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Ain’t we all blind from the inside?
To have been ripped off the good life we all deserve
To have been dead long of ignorance and inability of one voice as humans we are
To have allowed thieves and crooks to have their hands in every pot
To have been slaughtered off our vision by hypocrites and deceivers of change
To have let humanity suffer, pain, and agony we never deserve.
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“many people have prayed/ some fell in love with the holy spirit/
others engaged the church with Christ on their lips.”
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"some days, when my back is on the ground, i imagine riding a winged horse through the clouds, wearing a rainbow helmet, singing; it’s only a bad day, not a bad life." - Promise Akpa-Esu.
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://poemifypublishers.com/faith-a-poem-by-promise-akpa-esu/
the last time hunger threatened to kill me,
my mother cut her flesh & fed me.
& when my oesophagus was like a desert that
my saliva wasn’t suffice to wage war against
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://poemifypublishers.com/motherhood-means-immolation-to-my-mother-a-poem-by-moshkur-ajikobi/
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://poemifypublishers.com/depression-a-poemy-by-elizabeth-emmanuel/
My tears are this poem rolling into gratitude: carving out strong boys who never cries nor succumbed to life’s protracted misfortune when their father had gone to meet with Eve’s daughter…
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://poemifypublishers.com/threnody-your-death-gulp-me-empty/
The strength of black women of all walks of life often go unnoticed. They aren’t famous and don’t have the power, money or influence to get the recognition they deserve. Yet so much can be said about these everyday ‘sheroes’…
This episode is also available as a blog post: Read here https://poemifypublishers.com/why-a-strong-black-woman-a-poem-by-hillary-nicole-van-rooi/
*The road home is long and it runs and runs
across busy towns and lonely villages,
through express routes, flyovers and
white chalk lines drawn on asphalt,
through bumps and gallops and potholes
the size of a small pond and through smoke
from the exhaust of heavy-duty lorries
with witty slogans painted on their bodies.*
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://poemifypublishers.com/the-road-home-a-poem-by-abdulsalam-adeiza-sadiq/
Anyone who does not have a history, remember his history and is too quick to forget from where he/she is coming from, such a person is bound to experience life in an unhistorical way; be it nations of the world or a state in the comity of nations. Africans have been acting like ones who don’t know her history.
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://poemifypublishers.com/echoes-across-the-atlantic/
This poem resonate the grandness of poesy from the evaluation of a poet who stir evidently at problem, biting in between the arteries and vein without repairs until he found solacement from poetry written by another poets. In those lines were words spice with inspirations that transfix the author’s soul to evince how eloquent and dynamic God authored poetry, and in him, crafted out poets with biting fluency in such field. In this poem, the author captured his emotional and psychological changes after going through another author’s work. At the fifth line, he restate the functional abnormality, sadness and depression that would have eat him up. However, thanks to his colleague work. At the end, the speaker expressed the popularity of a mighty being who’s biting eloquency is now running through poets.
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A “Heoly Moment” is a short erotic poem by Chris Donald. Entailing the process of intimacy between partners. This episode is also available as a blog post: https://poemifypublishers.com/hoely-moment-a-poem-by-chris-donald/
This poem is resonate with the voices of loved ones, calling home those who have left home for long now… home has been lonely without them… This episode is also available as a blog post: https://poemifypublishers.com/are-you-coming-home-for-christmas/
Multi award winning Creative Writer Ayomide Inufin D’great pens a conscious societal trend of Africans especially Nigerians exiting their homes in other to seek greener pastures in a white man’s land. This episode is also available as a blog post: https://poemifypublishers.com/it-is-better-to-squat-in-scotland/
All is vain except love and coitus is the culmination of it…
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://poemifypublishers.com/if-sex-is-sin/
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://poemifypublishers.com/21-12-2020/
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://poemifypublishers.com/my-dependency-a-poem-by-yahuza-abdulkadir/
This poem writtem by Nuel Uyi about the pains of having to go fight at the war front and leaving one’s beloved at home with the thought that one may go to the war front and not come back alive. This episode is also available as a blog post: https://poemifypublishers.com/if-i-exchange-the-pen-for-the-gun-a-poem-by-nuel-uyi/
Every memory has a page and a chapter in the mind of time. Mine your memories for gains and not pains. Flip through the pages of your mind and retrace your steps. This episode is also available as a blog post: https://poemifypublishers.com/flipping-through-memory-by-maxwell-onyemaechi-opia-enwemuche/
Whether you’re writing for an assignment or for personal reasons, learning how to write poetry can be easy. Listen to this podcast as we walk you through the process of poetry writing.
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://poemifypublishers.com/how-to-start-writing-poetry/
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://poemifypublishers.com/my-father-wore-grief-as-a-garment/
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://poemifypublishers.com/10-essential-types-of-poetry/
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://poemifypublishers.com/superstitions/
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://poemifypublishers.com/how-to-publish-a-book-a-10-step-guide/
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://poemifypublishers.com/at-the-altar-of-baptismal-name/
Has a partner ever suddenly lost interest when things started out seemingly great?
In this episode of the Wedding Series, Atere Oluwagbemisola is going to break down the biggest reasons partners get turned off.
Wedding Talks Series with Atere Oluwagbemisola.
Don't be too pressurised to get married,
Don't be blind to signs and writings on the wall.
This episode is simply a reminder to think deeply and not dance your way into trouble out of desperation.
The frequency at which weddings have been taken place lately is intriguing. Not only has it led to people mounting pressure on themselves unnecessarily, it has also speedily increased the number of those questioning their state of singleness.
This episode is an introduction into wedding talks series that promises to be fun-filled.
Everyone has the ability to dream, but not everyone has the willingness to truly chase their dreams. When people aren’t living their dreams they often have limited belief systems.
Dreams are just dreams until you decide they are going to be something more. When you add passion to your dreams your life circumstances will not keep you from achieving them.
Dream chasing is not something everyone is cut out to do. Dream chasing is for those who dare to take a chance to believe, that their dream is something more, than a thought or possibility. Dream chasers know their dreams are worth chasing. Chase!
It's easy to get lost in the flurry of activity during Christmas time. May you get chance to take in the beauty and true meaning of the season and have a Merry Christmas! #Poemify
International Women's Day is celebrated on the 8th of March every year around the world. It is a focal point in the movement for women's rights.
Featuring Sophy Bless' spoken word piece titled "Breathing Fine".
It's a breathe of fresh air after the dust settles.
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However it is defined, pedophilia is wrong; but beyond that, it is evil. In a deeply disturbing trend in the last few decades, pedophilia apologists have tried to soft-pedal the condemnation of this horrible crime and criminal ideation. They are very wrong. Here is why.