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
SAVED BY A STORY: The World According to Busstop Prophet
In this inspiring, wisdom-infused episode, poet/storyteller/author/educator FRANK “BUSSTOP PROPHET" ESCAMILLA, our beloved Director of School Programs, is joined by Street Poet Jaylen Poole for a heart-warming, soul-stirring conversation about the healing power of poetry, storytelling and Nerd Culture in the ‘hood. If your inner child hasn't been out to play in awhile, or if you’re in need of a vaccine against bitterness and cynicism in these challenging times, just open your ears; we guarantee your heart will follow!
This STREET POETS PODCAST episode
"SAVED BY A STORY: The World According to Busstop Prophet"
is a production of Street Poets Inc. (streetpoetsinc.com)
• Hosted by Art Quiros
• Featuring Frank "Busstop Prophet" Escamilla with Jaylen Poole
• Produced by Chris Henrikson
• Edited by Kevin Woods
• Sound Design & Original Music by Kevin Woods
• Street Poets "I Got Love" Podcast Theme Music features:
Vocals by BRIA & Taylor Code, Music by Dave Wittman
• Additional voice-over: Kaylyn Wright
• Special thanks: Jake Falby & New Math
• This episode includes the following original poems by Frank Escamilla:
"Boyle Heights" and "It."
(To hear more original poetry & music from our recording studio archives, visit Street Poets Inc. on SoundCloud and Bandcamp.)
We invite you to visit streetpoetsinc.com
to learn more about our youth outreach programs in the streets, schools and probation facilities of Los Angeles and beyond.
METAPHORS BE WITH YOU!