Check out our upcoming schedule to see who will be dropping by. Those listed are scheduled to appear but of course the list is subject to change.
March 9th – Ray Jane
Ray Jane, making her second appearance, is a Black female poet born in Brooklyn and raised in Far Rockaway, Queens. She uses her poetry to lift herself and other women of color. Always aiming to strengthen her voice, Ray Jane won the Verb Benders slam poetry team’s inaugural poetry slam (2022), and was invited to perform in Yale Peabody Museum’s Annual MLK Jr Black History Month Slam (2022, 2023). Ray Jane recently published her first collection of poems entitled Black Like That. She is published in the literary magazine I Can’t Breathe, Lalibreta: An Online Poetry Journal for Women in Creative Rebellion (2021, 2022), TESORO: 1st Anniversary Firesingers, Snarl: A Journal for Literature and Art and was a contributing editor for the poetry anthology dedicated to nature entitled Love Letters to Gaia. She has had a number of features including, but not limited to: NYC Poetry Festival (2021-2023); “Digital Verse” sponsored by The Nuyorican Poets Café and The Green Space; Urban Beat Poet Society and ELKAT Productions “Open Mic Series”; Tantalizing Productions “The Art of Seduction”; and Pregones/PRRT’s Stage Garden Rumba (2021, 2022). She has participated in poetic writing workshops focused on empowering women like “RoblesWrites Presents: Respite, Write, and Release™”.
March 16th – Rebecca Salazar
Rebecca Salazar (she/they) is a queer, racialized Latinx writer, editor, and community organizer. Published works include Sulphurtongue (McClelland & Stewart), The Knife You Need to Justify the Wound (Rahila’s Ghost), and Guzzle (Anstruther).
Rebecca edits poetry for The Fiddlehead and Plenitude magazines, is a co-founder of BIPOC Pride Fredericton, and works as graduate researcher for the Cymbeline in the Anthropocene research project. Rebecca is currently completing a PhD on trauma, queerness, and ecopoetics while living on the unceded territory of the Wolastoqiyik people.
This will be Rebecca’s first apperance on the Program.
March 23rd – Sharnnell Spivey
Making her second appearance on the podcast Sharnnell Spivey was born and raised in Detroit, MI where she first realized her passion for writing. She started at a young age by keeping journals. Sharnnell wrote in her journal about her daily life and feelings that she felt as if she could not express to others. As a preteen she took interest in Maya Angelou and her writings. She looked at a woman that was so bold and used emotions and turned it into art; Sharnnell wanted to do the same. She begin writing poetry and realized she had a heart for it.
She later published her first book of poetry at the age of 15 entitled, “So Many Emotions by One Little Girl”. She wrote her second poetry book “Keeping it Real” however she stopped writing for 6 years after experiencing a domestic violence situation. After coming out of her writers block, she spent 3 months writing about her experience in her nonfictional book entitled, “Domestic Drama: Her Truth”. It was hard to express the things that she experienced in that time however, she wanted to get her story out, hoping others come forward and remove themselves from such situations.
March 30th – No Program Scheduled
April 6th – Ahja Fox
The Program returns and we welcome for the first time, Ahja Fox. Ahja is a mother, educator, freelancer, and the current Poet Laureate of Aurora, Colorado for a four-year term which ends Spring of 2026. She has editorial, hosting, unique performance and teaching experience through working with or for the City of Aurora, Art of Storytelling, Poetix University, Copper Nickel, Poetry Brothel Denver, Kallisto Gaia Press, Poetix University, Progenitor Literary & Art Journal and more. Currently, she teaches with Lighthouse Writers as a youth instructor, hosts Poetry Breakfast with Hoffman Library, and is a board member for Soul Stories, and commits to delivering poetry-focused lessons at various schools and public places.