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E16: Addressing Toxic Masculinity with Kyle Tran Myhre

In this episode, SooJin and Kyle talk about how art, spoken word, and poetry can serve as door ways to talk to our children about larger, more complex systems of oppression. Through his work on dismantling toxic masculinity, Kyle points out how harmful forms of masculinity are embedded throughout w…

Volume Five: Chapter Five - Our Conversation with Tarika Holland

In Volume Five: Chapter Five, we welcome Teaching Artists, Poet, Dancer, Spoken Word Artist, and Author of the book Becoming The Artist Volume One, Tarika Holland. Contact Tarika: Instagram: @tarikahollandInstagram: bec0mingtheartist Featured Performance Poets in This Chapter:Ariana Brown – We Neve…

073. 3 Ways to Engage with the Rigor of Ease in Creative Practice

Rigor doesn’t equal hard work and ease doesn’t equal work that is easy. Asking for help, refusing to resent our capacity, honoring the needs of our body and moving at the speed of creative flow is rigorous work that might require practice if our learned impulse is to habitually bring ourselves to t…

Volume Six: Chapter Two - Our Conversation with Dr. Theri Pickens

This week on the program, we welcomed Poet, Scholar, Educator, and Author of the poetry collection "What Had Happened Was" -  Dr. Therí Pickens . Dr. Pickens is a Professor of English at Bates College, where she teaches courses in African American and Arab American literature, disability studies, p…

"Motion, or Teaching My Best Friend My Favorite Songs At the Top of Our Lungs" by Ariana Brown

for Hamze we are as dark inside as the night is, meaning, we are so beautiful most people choose not to see us, for fear of overwhelming themselves—& we are sitting in the front seat of your car, shifting toward music. we are going home, if home is the equation for to be left alone. I put my fi…

Bay Poets: 'For the Black kids in My 8th Grade Class' by poet Ariana Brown

Now we bring you a reading from YouthSpeaks Bringing the Noise for MLK poetry slam. We hear an excerpt of the poem ”For the Black Kids in My 8th Grade Class” by Ariana Brown.

Bay Poets: 'For the Black kids in My 8th Grade Class' by poet Ariana Brown

Now we bring you a reading from YouthSpeaks Bringing the Noise for MLK poetry slam. We hear an excerpt of the poem ”For the Black Kids in My 8th Grade Class” by Ariana Brown.

Ariana Brown: “The Shoes My Mother Hated, in Fairness, Were Ugly”

Recorded by Ariana Brown for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on June 19, 2026. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.poets.org⁠

Volume Seven: Chapter Eight - Our Conversation with Dasha Kelly

In Volume Seven: Chapter Eight of the Program, we welcome Milwaukee, Wisconsin-born and based Writer, Poet, Storyteller, Author, Performance Poet, Teaching Artist, and Creative Change Agent Dasha Kelly. A former Milwaukee Poet Laureate and Wisconsin's first Black Poet Laureate, Dasha has spent deca…

Ep. 34: Don't Deny Your Genius for People's Performative Insecurities

Do you live alive?  What if you navigated the world knowing you have a genius? In this episode of The Rest of Us, host Dana Tenille Weekes holds space for listeners to (1) let them know they have a genius; and (2) identify and live in their genius. Dana admits that “genius” can feel like a strong, …