A More Perfect Union: To Be Black, Woman and ...

Jas Moon is an Aquarian Entrepreneur and champions others to be too—to embed practices that support the holistic wellbeing of themselves & their customers into their mission driven businesses. Links: Connect with Jas Moon on Instagram @jasofmoon Follow The Aquarian Entrepreneur o ...  Show more

This week I welcome Carmen Harris into conversation, a visionary, healer, and co-founder of Two Inches Beyond Black. This episode is an offering, a meditation, a call to come back into yourself an invitation to breathe. Links: Connect with Carmen Harris on Instagram @carmendharri ...  Show more

An impassioned plea, a yearning for connection — the poem U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón wrote when she says all language failed her. Take in Ada's reading of her piece, “The End of Poetry” — and hear her read more of her work in the On Being episode, “To Be Made Whole.”Ada Limón i ...  Show more

Through her poetry, Patricia Smith generously, skillfully puts language around what can be seen both in the present and deliberately looking back at oneself. We are excited to offer this conversation between Pádraig and Patricia, recorded during the 2022 Dodge Poetry Festival in ...  Show more

Join Quenton Baker and special guests for a celebration of and conversation on their new book ballast. This event occurred on April 26, 2023. Ballast is a poetic sequence using the 1841 slave revolt aboard the brig Creole as a lens through which to view the vitality of Black live ...  Show more

In their latest collection of poems, Cave Canem Poetry Prize winner Brionne Janae dives into the deep, unsettled waters of intimate partner violence, queerness, grief, and survival. This event took place on July 6, 2023. “I’ve decided I can’t trust anyone who uses darkness as a m ...  Show more