We welcome to the podcast, Deesoul! Darnell “DeeSoul” Carson (He/They) is a Black queer poet, performer, and educator from San Diego, CA. A The Watering Hole Writing Workshop Fellow, his work has been featured by Button Poetry, Write About Now Poetry, The Adroit Journal, & elsewhere. He graduated with a degree in Cultural/Social Psychology and a minor in Creative Writing from Stanford University and is a Writer in the Public Schools Fellow in the NYU M.F.A program. Check out him and Amanda's conversation on everything from religion , race, the 2020 pandemic and of course all things poetry!