Yasamin Safarzadeh
Aaron Heimann
Tor Cronin
Welcome to Speakeasy, where the voice of the Valley is heard through the art of the spoken word. On today’s bit, host Matt Gottesman invites Los Angeles poets Yasamin Safarzadeh, Aaron Heimann and Tor Cronin to boil the Internet in their mouths.
Welcome to Speakeasy, where the voice of the Valley is heard through the art of the spoken word. On today’s segment, host Matt Gottesman invites Mad About Ink co-founders Cyrus Sepahbodi, Cecila Polkinhorn and David Gale to wrestle microphones with their tongues.
Welcome to Speakeasy, where the voice of the Valley is heard through the art of the spoken word. On today’s segment, host Matt Gottesman interviews Jason Brain, founder of Soapbox International, the nine-year-old Soapbox Sessions open mic, ARTZANA Community Market and Poetry In Motion Publishing, about his adventures as a poet and life as a father.
Full disclosure: A poem of Matt’s has been published by Poetry In Motion Publishing.
Welcome to Speakeasy, where the voice of the Valley is heard through the art of the spoken word. On today’s segment, host Matt Gottesman interviews Cyrus Sepahbodi, Cecilia Polkenhorn and David Gale, founders of Mad About Ink, a coalition that wants to bring poetry to the forefront of society.
“We’re going to get loud. We want our crowd to cheer when they love something. We want our people to applaud like hell. We want every poet there to feel appreciated for what they’re doing. … You might not think poetry is fun, but it’s really fun.” -David Gale
Los Angeles poet and artist Yasamin Safarzadeh pitches “Thursday” excerpted from an unpublished episode of Speakeasy with host Matt Gottesman, recorded on March 20, Persian New Year of 2015.
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