The Interviews:
Poets & Storytellers Open is a monthly poetry open mic series hosted by Echo Thread Books in Hopewell, NJ. Each session is concluded by either a featured poet or musician. Our evenings with poetry features have a special segment after the poets’ sets—an interview/Q&A session. P&SO host, Gregg Yupanki Bautista, sits with the poets at the end of their set and discusses craft, influence, and connections of the work and poet to the broader world. These are the transcriptions of the conversations.
Rashad Wright
“I’m speaking from my soul ‘cause that’s what I’m willing to throw on the line to do this.”
- Rashad Wright
Heretic Vicar
“Somebody has to speak up, otherwise there’s not going to be a world to inherit. And so I understand that there’s a little bit of hope.”
- Heretic Vicar
James C. Ellerbe
“There’s nothing like when someone internalizes what you said and they gather something else from it. And that’s what the poem was supposed to do. Who am I to get in the way of that? I know why I wrote it, but whatever the words do after that, that’s the universe.”
- James C. Ellerbe
Arianna Astuni
“Everything that gets written is like a minute in time. It’s pretty much the way I think, the way I live my life, the way I communicate.”
- Arianna Astuni
The Interviews
Welcome to The Interviews, the transcriptions of our conversations held at the end of each poetry feature’s performance at our monthly poetry open mic series, Poets & Storytellers Open.
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