Feb 18 2025 131 mins
WPKN and Mega Bass Presents: Poets on Fire celebrating Black History Month with a live in-studio poetry broadcast. Listen to a cadre of regional emerging poets including Bridgeport’s own Phillip C. Alexander who has graced stages from Connecticut to Florida, and who recently shared the stage opening for hip hop collective, Brand Nubian.
Poet, God Is Tymani Rain, the 2024 Connecticut Grand Slam poetry champion, one fifth of the Connecticut Verbal Slap Slam Team, and host of Poetz Realm Open Mic in Bridgeport as an arts educator and community builder.
Poet, Oso, from Hamden Connecticut, a rising star, and founding member of the Transcribers poetry collective in Hartford, Connecticut.
And many more...