A special collaboration with the Fabric Workshop and Museum inspired by Jonathan Lyndon Chase's "Big Wash" exhibition opening in January 2021. Featuring poetry by JONATHAN LYNDON CHASE & JAMAL RASHAD . Spun by VINCE ANTHONY .
A special collaboration with #VoteThatJawn, an initiative that aims to bring 18-year-olds and other first-time voters to the polls. Featuring Philly Youth Poet Laureates MIA CONCEPCION , CYDNEY BROWN & WES MATTHEWS in response to Walt Whitman’s poem “Election Day: November 1884.” Spun by VINCE ANTHONY .
An extended Juneteenth mix featuring freedom songs by QUINCY SCOTT JONES, HUSNAA HASHIM, NOOR IBN NAJAM, JASMINE L. COMBS, KAI DAVIS, ASHLEY DAVIS, TRAPETA B. MAYSON & YOLANDA WISHER. Spun by VINCE ANTHONY.
Special mini-mix featuring poet & comic book author QUINCY SCOTT JONES & current Philadelphia Poet Laureate TRAPETA B. MAYSON . Spun by VINCE ANTHONY .
Featuring MIA CONCEPCION , 2019-2020 Philadelphia Youth Poet Laureate + NOOR IBN JABAM , a poet who teases, challenges, breaks & creates language + poet, performer & educator DENICE FROHMAN. Spun by Detroit-born, Philly-based DJ A-LIST . “Two Stops Early” is a phrase from Denice Frohman’s poem “A Queer Girl’s Ode to the Piragüero.” This episode concludes The Second Jawn .
Featuring MERCEDEZ HOLTRY , poet, writer, mentor, and Chicana feminist + META SARMIENTO , Filipino rapper and poet born and raised in Guam who now calls Denver, CO home + TOLUWANIMI OBIWOLE , a Nigerian multi-disciplinary artist, organizer, and healer. Spun by MERCURII AKA TOLUWA OBIWOLE . “Some Very Important Chisme” is a line from Mercedez Holtry’s poem “Chisme and Lavender Carmel Coffee.”
Featuring SHAM-E-ALI NAYEEM , poet, artist & public interest lawyer + WARREN LONGMIRE , writer, software engineer & educator + BETHLEHEM ROBERSON , known as a vocussionist, fusing vocals with body percussion. Spun by VINCE ANTHONY , a singer-songwriter, producer & music educator. “How Do You Kill a Blank Page” is a phrase from Warren Longmire’s poem “Zoom Links.”
Featuring Brooklyn-born interdisciplinary poet & sound artist TRACIE MORRIS + QUINCY SCOTT JONES whose first comic, Black Nerd with artist Ronald Nelson, will be released this year + HETTIE JONES , one of the most prolific Beat poets of her generation. Spun by DR. BRUCE CAMPBELL JR. aka DJ JUNIOR , a professor who runs his own independent record label, Record Breakin’ Music. “But that’s another whole story” is a line from Hettie Jones’ poem “All Told.”...
Featuring KAI DAVIS (she/her), a Black Queer writer, performer & teaching artist from Philadelphia who received the Leeway Transformation Award for her art for social change work + JASMINE L. COMBS , a writer, educator & spoken word artist who is the author of two collections of poetry, Universal Themes & This Drowning Was A Baptism + JACOB WINTERSTEIN , a lifelong Philadelphian, artist, event producer & educator & co-founder of The Philly Pigeon collective which organizes po...
Featuring ASHLEY DAVIS , a black queer androfemme (they/she) artist, poet, human who writes to center the inter generational black femme & build spaces for rest & inner children to play + KIRWYN SUTHERLAND , a Clinical Research Professional & poet who makes poems centering the black experience in America + LYRISPECT, an award-winning lyricist, author, activist, educator & voiceover artist. Spun by VINCE ANTHONY, a singer-songwriter & music producer who recently released his E...
Featuring TRAPETA B. MAYSON , a poet, social worker & MBA, who is a native of Liberia + CYNTHIA DEWI OKA , author of Salvage: Poems who created a migrant poetry workshop series in Philadelphia & is originally from Bali, Indonesia + SANAM SHERIFF, a poet & artist from Bangalore, India who is currently an MFA candidate in Poetry at Washington University in St. Louis. Spun by OLUWAFEMI , a deejay, music producer & visual artist based in Philadelphia, by way of Central New Jersey, by...
Featuring RAQUEL SALAS RIVERA , 2018-19 Poet Laureate of Philadelphia & co-editor of Puerto Rico en mi corazón , a collection of bilingual broadsides of contemporary Puerto Rican poets + YOLANDA WISHER , 2016-17 Poet Laureate of Philadelphia, author of Monk Eats an Afro , & Curator of Spoken Word at Philadelphia Contemporary + HUSNAA HASHIM , 2017-18 Youth Poet Laureate of Philadelphia & author of Honey Sequence. Spun by DR. BRUCE CAMPBELL JR. aka DJ JUNIOR , an Associate Professor i...
