P&SO - The Interviews

  1. Rashad Wright

    August 8, 2025
    Poets & Storytellers Open Interview Date: 2025/08/08  “I’m speaking from my soul ‘cause that’s what I’m willing to throw on the line to do this.”  - Rashad Wright Gregg Yupanki Bautista: That’s some incredibly powerful work. I’m really excited that I had the opportunity to finally see you…

  2. Heretic Vicar

    July 11, 2025
    Poets & Storytellers Open Interview Date: 2025/07/11  “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 (Unfortunately, the recording started a little late and we missed the first few seconds of…

  3. James C. Ellerbe

    June 13, 2025
    Poets & Storytellers Open Interview Date: 2025/06/13 “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…

  4. Arianna Astuni

    May 9, 2025
    Poets & Storytellers Open Interview Date: 2025/05/09 “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  Gregg Yupanki Bautista: I feel like just from watching you perform, I…

  5. About The Interviews

    January 1, 2025
    What have I just come across?  These are the transcribed versions of our interviews held at the end of each poetry feature’s performance at our monthly poetry open mic series, Poets & Storytellers Open. Why the online version of The Interviews? We decided to transcribe the poetry feature interview…
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