A PODCAST FOR CREATIVE WRITERS
The Poetry Lab Podcast is a short-form podcast designed to help creative writers carve out the time, the courage, and the inspiration they need to keep writing their new sh*t.
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With easy-to-follow advice, geeky deep-dives into craft techniques, book recommendations, and answers about everything from performance to publishing, The Poetry Lab Podcast is made for self-taught writers eager to learn wherever and whenever they are.
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meet your hosts
Lori Walker is a prose poet and creative nonfiction writer. In her day job, she is a social media marketer and creative career consultant.
Her primary mission is to help you build a sustainable creative career, whatever that looks like for you, and make marketing yourself as a poet, if not fun, then as painless as possible, and make social media something useful, joyful, and not something you have to do All.The.Time…unless you want to.
bridgette bianca is a poet and professor from South Central Los Angeles. Her debut book of poetry, be/trouble (Writ Large Press), was listed as one of Bookriot’s “9 Poetry Books That Capture the Black Experience”. Her work is, in many respects, a love letter to Los Angeles as even when the city isn’t formally mentioned, it is always present and we are always aware that Los Angeles offers as much grit as it does glamour.
Leonora Simonovis is a Venezuelan American poet, editor and educator. Her debut poetry collection, Study of the Raft, won the 2021 Colorado Prize for Poetry. Her work has appeared in DMQ Review, The Hopper, About Place Journal, River Mouth Review, Verse Daily, and others. She has received support from The Poetry Foundation, VONA, Women Who Submit, and the Vermont Studio Center. Leonora is the Reviews Editor at Ecotheo Review and the Currents Editor at terrain.org.
Danielle Mitchell is an intersectional feminist, poet, and teaching artist. She is the Cofounder and Executive Director of The Poetry Lab. Danielle is the winner of the Clockwise Prize for her chapbook Makes the Daughter-in-Law Cry and most recently honored as a 2023 California Creative Corps artist grantee. Her work has appeared in Hayden’s Ferry Review, Vinyl, Four Way Review, Transom, Connotation Press, and others.
meet your hosts
RAVINA is a South Asian American bestselling author, spoken word poet & licensed therapist based in Long Beach, CA. RAVINA was born and raised in the U.S. Virgin Islands. YELLOW is her debut full-length collection of poetry and prose published by World Stage Press & recipient of the Long Beach Best Poetry Collection of 2021.
