It can be difficult to push yourself to be creative without a community behind you. Every Tuesday, Jill Fredenburg and Taylor Vinson, two poets in the DC area, interview guests who make time for writing. The Poetry Prompt Podcast is for the would-be, has-
In the finale of season 01, Taylor and Jill reflect on the best parts of this project and we hear the voices of folks who used the prompts to dip their toes into poetry. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-poetry-prompt-podcast/message
VONA/Voices Alumna Tatiana Ramirez joins Jill Fredenburg and Taylor Vinson this week on the poetry prompt podcast. Studied under award-winning poet Willie Perdomo, Tatiana has been published in Pool Poetry, Spillwords, The Acentos Review, A Gypsy's Library, and Here Comes Everyone: East & West Issue. She mainly performs in the greater Washington D.C. area, but has also shared her work throughout the continental United States and the Dominican Republic. She is currently working on her first collection of poetry Coconut Curls y Café con Leche. We discuss how her Afroboricua identity influences her creative spacemaking here and prompt our listeners to write and rewrite with rhythm and sound in mind. Art by Moroumi Li and Music by Eva Lennuk --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-poetry-prompt-podcast/message
In this episode, Jill Fredenburg and Taylor Vinson, two poets in the DC area, discuss how technology positively and negatively affects their creative projects. Social Media serves as a source for both distraction and inspiration, while googling information can lead to richer work. The Poetry Prompt Podcast is for the would-be, has-been, always-dreamed, pent-up poets out there looking for prompts, friendships, and that little push to make. In this episode, we read you our work and ask you to write a remix. Share your poetry with us! http://thepoetrypromptpodcast.georgetown.domains --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-poetry-prompt-podcast/message
Justin Davis, a poet and community organizer from Memphis, TN joins Jill Fredenburg and Taylor Vinson this week on the podcast. His work explores race and identity, as well as his surrounding experiences. In this episode, we ask you to write a poem that uses anaphora! Share your work with us! http://thepoetrypromptpodcast.georgetown.domains --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-poetry-prompt-podcast/message
Dr. David Gewanter is interviewed by Jill Fredenburg and Taylor Vinson, two poets in the DC area. Author of Fort Necessity(U. Chicago Press), Gewanter shapes poems from testimony by factory workers, convicts, plutocrats and anarchists. He dramatizes industrial labor, violence, and the creative body from the Carnegie era's Homestead battle to the Koch brothers. In this episode, we ask you to write a poem where you list synonyms for a subject of your choice (rabbits, exes, eggs, etc.), and share your work with us! http://thepoetrypromptpodcast.georgetown.domains --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-poetry-prompt-podcast/message
It can be difficult to push yourself to be creative without a community behind you. Every Tuesday, Jill Fredenburg and Taylor Vinson, two poets in the DC area, interview guests who make time for writing. The Poetry Prompt Podcast is for the would-be, has-been, always-dreamed, pent-up poets out there looking for prompts, friendships, and that little push to make. In this episode, we read you our work and ask you to write a remix. Share your poetry with us! http://thepoetrypromptpodcast.georgetown.domains --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-poetry-prompt-podcast/message