Street Poets Podcast
Real-life stories & interviews – laced with original poetry & music – produced by the creative team at Street Poets Inc. – a Los Angeles-based non-profit organization transforming our world one rhyme at a time. ••••••• Born in an L.A. County juvenile detention camp in 1995, Street Poets works behind bars and beyond, from inner-city high school classrooms to Native American reservations, from local streets and projects to countries as far away as Belize, Sweden, Northern Ireland and South Africa. Whether reciting from our "Poetry in Motion" van, rapping in our recording studio, or singing in a sweat lodge, we create in the knowledge that we carry the seeds of solutions to our world's most intractable problems within us. Our mission is to liberate those solutions, that medicine, our gifts – so that we all can experience together what it feels like to be free. ••••••• For more on Street Poets visit streetpoetsinc.com, or follow us on Instagram: @streetpoetsinc @streetpoetspodcast #metaphorsbewithyou
Street Poets Podcast
OF POETRY & PRAYER: The Barbara Fant Story
This episode illuminates the inspiring origin story of Street Poets' former Artistic Director, poet/author and Minister of Metaphor, Barbara Fant. Since her early days growing up in Youngstown, Ohio, Barbara has followed her calling – the transformational practice of poetry – through hardship and healing, darkness and light, to the cafe open-mics of Columbus to West Africa to our City of Angels and beyond. Barbara's journey is a celebration of the power of the Word. It's a real-life story of faith and resilience and the kind of hard-earned wisdom so desperately needed in our world today.
This STREET POETS PODCAST episode
"OF POETRY & PRAYER: The Barbara Fant Story"
is a production of Street Poets Inc. (streetpoetsinc.com)
• Hosted by Art Quiros
• Produced by Chris Henrikson
• Edited by Art Quiros
• Original Poems by Barbara Fant featured herein include: "LONG LINE," "HANDFULS OF HONEY," "HOUSE OF DUST" and "WHEN HEALING HAS HER WAY."
• Additional drumming/music ("Sofa" rhythm) performed by Rhythm Arts Alliance
• Street Poets "I Got Love" Podcast Theme Music features:
Vocals by BRIA & Taylor Code, Music by Dave Wittman
For more information about Barbara's work, or to purchase her latest collection of poetry "MOUTHS OF GARDEN," we invite you to visit: barbarafant.com
For more information about Street Poets' youth outreach programs in the streets, schools and probation facilities of Los Angeles and beyond: streetpoetsinc.com
METAPHORS BE WITH YOU!