The creators are definitely doing this for the write reasons!
The QUEENSBOUND Poetry Project has just launched a podcast featuring verses about the World’s Borough.
Available on all major platforms, each episode features contributors from QPP’s four editions, paired with MTA station announcements that correspond to the stops that inspired the work.
Listen to local cadence, metaphor, metre, prose, rhymes, simile, verses, and words below.
Episode 1: 2018
Contributors include Rosebud Ben-Oni, Malcolm Chang, Catherine Fletcher, Sherese Francis, Jared Harél, Nicole Haroutunian, Abeer Hoque, Safia Jama, Paolo Javier, Joseph O. Legaspi, Ananda Lima, Maria Lisella, Vikas K. Menon, Belal Mobarak, Meera Nair, Maria Terrone, and KC Trommer with music by Adam DeGraff and Tyler Burba.
Episode 2: 2020
Contributors include Nadia Q. Ahmad, Amy M. Alvarez, Pichchenda Bao, Ryan Black, Nana Brew-Hammond, Francisco Delgado, Ariel Francisco, Ellen Hagan, Kimiko Hahn, Robert Ostrom, Bushra Rehman, Sahar Romani, Jackie Sherbow, Mariahedessa Ekere Tallie, and Sweta Srivastava Vikram.
Episode 3: 2021
Contributors include Philip F. Clark, Noelle de la Paz, Matthew Hittinger, Marcia B. Loughran, Jimena Lucero, Yasmin Adele Majeed, Nadia Misir, Shams A. Momin, Richard Jeffrey Newman, Nikay C. Paredes, Bino A. Realuyo, and Spencer Reece.
Episode 4: 2024
Contributors include allia abdullah-matta, Jared Beloff, Joe Gross, Nathalie Handal, Emily Hockaday, Dena Igusti, Olena Jennings, Catherine Kapphahn, Hiromi Kiba, Amy Lemmon, Rajan Maharjan, José Alfredo Menjivar, Enzo Silon Surin, Bruce Whitacre, and Micah Zevin.
The project will be featured in a virtual event with the New York Transit Museum, Poetry at the End of the Line, on April 29 at 6 pm. QUEENSBOUND Founder KC Trommer will discuss the collaboration alongside poet Sue Landers, who is launching her collection, “What to Carry into the Future.”
Founded in 2017, QUEENSBOUND is a collaborative audio project of poems by, for, and about the World’s Most Diverse Borough that uses New York City’s subways and an online map to bring poetry to the people. Click here to see the map, hear the poems, and learn more.
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