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Audio Poem of the DayAngel NafisBy Angel Nafis
2025-06-2403 min
Bedside ReadingBedside Poetry: Beth Osmond and I explore "Ode to Dalya's Bald Spot" by Angel NafisSend us a textWelcome to the first of a short special series of "Bedside Poetry" podcasts.One poem, one guest, one conversation....I'm delighted to welcome neonatologist and poet Beth Osmond to explore Angel Nafis' poem "Ode to Dalya's Bald Spot"find the poem here:https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/149508/ode-to-dalyas-bald-spot2025-04-0129 min
The Line Breakpoetry that breathes fortification into your body (feat. Melissa Ferrer Civil)The Line Break podcast: the place where Poet Laureates go. This month, Bob and Chris are thrilled to welcome Melissa Ferrer Civil, inaugural Poet Laureate of Kansas City, MO! Melissa reads Angel Nafis's "Ghazal For Becoming Your Own Country" as well as their own poem, "Alambrista," from the book 'Steno Pad.'
Find more Melissa: https://melissaferrerand.com/
Melissa Ferrer Civil (&), (she/they), formerly known as Missy T. Ferrari, is a poet, performer, organizer, and educator living on unceded Kaw, Kansa, Kickapoo, and Oceti Sakowin lands (KCMO). Rooted in the practical and the possible, their spoken word poems and songs...2025-02-101h 05
The Deerfield Public Library PodcastQueer Poem-a-Day, Year 4: Angel NafisDay 6: Angel Nafis reads her poem “Why R&B First Thing in the Morning, Why R&B Above All,” originally published on The Rumpus in 2015. Born in Chicago, Illinois and raised in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Angel Nafis is a writer and the author of BlackGirl Mansion (Red Beard Press/ New School Poetics, 2012). She earned her BA at Hunter College and her MFA in poetry at Warren Wilson College. Her work has appeared in The Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-day, BLACK FUTURES, The Rumpus, Poetry Magazine, Buzzfeed Reader and elsewhere. Text of today’s poem and more de...2024-06-1003 min
YawpcastYawpcast 4.8.24Brooklyn Poets Yawp open mic, 4.8.24, featuring Angel Nafis (3:01) and Poem of the Month winner Eva Koehler for "An Email to Emily, Out of the Blue" (48:48). For more info, go to brooklynpoets.org/events/yawp.2024-04-301h 20
fiction/non/fictionHoliday Archives: Danez Smith on Poetry, Blackness, and FriendshipIn this holiday re-broadcast of an episode from April 23, 2020, acclaimed poet Danez Smith discusses the role friendship plays in their most recent collection of poetry, Homie. Smith talks to Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell about the isolating effect COVID-19 has had on black communities, using space on the page inventively, and writing about money. This episode is presented in conjunction with the Loft Literary Center’s literary festival, Wordplay, which in 2020 was a virtual event. To hear the full episode, subscribe to the Fiction/Non/Fictionpodcast thr...2023-12-2848 min
Vibe CheckWe Got Grudges, B!tchOn this episode of Vibe Check, Sam, Saeed, and Zach talk about the recent slew of celebrity lawsuits that have been filed in New York, and they reflect on the past year of Elon Musk’s reign at X (Twitter). Plus, a few recommendations to help you keep your vibe right.------------------------------------------------------RECOMMENDATIONS:SAM: Dream Scenario and Short Ribs (by Alison Roman)SAEED: Part 2 of Angel Nafis’s poem “Gravity” — https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/58063/gravity-56d23c1d15a2aZACH: Saltburn
You can find every...2023-11-2954 min
The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily984: Poem at the Top of a MountainToday’s poem is Poem at the Top of a Mountain by Angel Nafis. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, guest host Shira Erlichman writes… “Today’s poem is about a prayerful space which offers not just withdrawal, but perspective. I see in this poem what it was that I found on my walk to my high school art room sanctuary. What appears to be aloneness is actually a deepening camaraderie.” Celebrate the power of poems with a gift to The Slowdown today. Every donation makes a difference: https://tinyurl.com/rjm4synp2023-10-2506 min
The American Poetry ReviewEpisode 16: Poems for people who aren’t in the habit of reading poemsToday on the show, Elizabeth Scanlon, Hannah Gellman and Steven Kleinman discuss: the new issue of APR with Shane McCrae An appreciation of Elaine Equi – “The Lonely Parade” in this issue, and “Sometimes I Get Distracted” Plus, a chat with Hannah re: recommending poems to those new to poetry. Poems mentioned: Elizabeth Bishop “Filling Station,” Robert Hayden “Those Winter Sundays,” Robert Hass “Meditation at Lagunitas,” Angel Nafis “Woo Woo Roll Deep” Marie Howe, “What the Living Do” Books mentioned: Airea D. Matthews, Bread & Circus 2023-06-0324 min
The Greenlight Bookstore PodcastS3, Ep. 8: The Greenlight Poetry Salon: Renia White & Aracelis Girmay (January 12, 2022)Created and hosted by poet and former Greenlight bookseller Angel Nafis, Greenlight’s Poetry Salon welcomes locally and nationally celebrated poets for a powerful and moving evening of poetry and performance. For our triumphant return to in-person Salons, we welcomed Renia White and her collection Casual Conversation, alongside esteemed poet Aracelis Girmay (The Black Maria), who selected it for BOA Editions's Blessing the Boats Selections. White’s debut poetry collection strikes up a conversation, considering what’s being said, what isn’t, and where it all comes from, probing the norms and mores of everyday interactions. Listen back to a revere...2023-01-1257 min
The Greenlight Bookstore PodcastEp. QS86: Diane Exavier with Carlos Sirah and Shayla Lawz, hosted by Angel Nafis (February 17, 2022)For phenomenal local writer, theatermaker, and educator Diane Exavier’s début collection, The Math of Saint Felix, Greenlight’s own Poetry Salon host Angel Nafis held court with Exavier and fellow poets Carlos Sirah and Shayla Lawz for a powerful, multivocal evening of reading, reverie, and irreverence. Exavier's book-length lyric is an attempt to do the math of a woman, a family, a country, and a diaspora, plotting how the sum of one life reveals permutations of many— daughters, sisters, lovers—and the uncountable cost of a single death. Nafis, Lawz, Sirah, and Exavier held space for one another a...2022-02-171h 19
Get Lit MinuteAngel Nafis | “Woo Woo Roll Deep”In this week's episode of the Get Lit Minute, your weekly poetry podcast, we spotlight the life and work of American poet and spoken-word artist, Angel Nafis. She is the author of BlackGirl Mansion (Red Beard Press/ New School Poetics, 2012). Her work has appeared in The Rattling Wall, The BreakBeat Poets Anthology, MUZZLE Magazine, The Rumpus, Poetry magazine, and elsewhere. “Woo Woo Roll Deep”it’s not just me. Be clear,the whole squad Woo Woo. Kinstay lifted up in metal clouds. Orknuckle deep in earth. Talkingabout...2021-10-0108 min
Russian Cybernetics by 4Mal / Русская кибернетикаRediit / Incepto Music — Russian Cybernetics Mix’N’Share 231 (08.09.2021), Alexander Kireev, 4MalМикшер Русской кибернетики 231
с Александром Киреевым и Евгением Сваловым / 4Mal
Автор гостевого микса: Rediit / Incepto Music (Мариуполь, Украина)
01. Meeting Molly — Silhouette Under the Moon [Incepto Music]
02. ZANIO feat. Kaiiila — Ever (Blood Groove & Kikis Remix) [Incepto Music]
03. Enviado Vida — Where Is My Train [Incepto Music]
04. Sunlight Project — Aura [Incepto Music]
05. J.Weo — Lazy Weekend (Soty & Seven24 Remix) [Incepto Music]
06. Gregory Esayan & Angel Falls — Part of Me [Incepto Music]
07. Steve Anderson & Andrea Britton — Easy to Say (From A To B Album Mix) [Incepto Music]
08. Nafis — Holding Hands (Blood Groove & Kikis Remix) [Incepto Music]
09. Stendahl — Serenity [Incepto Music]
10. Deepshader & Max Farewell — Vega [Incepto Music]
11. ALURIA — Life Loop (Michael A Remix) [Incepto Music]
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Instagram с анонсами и экскл...2021-09-0800 min
Local FruitPAPAYAIs laughing at your trauma jokes a love language? We get meta on every episode but this one’s for those of us who like to open our friends' fridges and fall asleep on their floors and furniture after eating their food and flirting! We talk about our models for intimacy and realize language is what showed us our hearts. We bring honor to the intimate spaces we’ve been a part of. Who or what are your guiding stars when it comes to intimacy of any kind? Who reminds you of intimacy in your own ecosystem and how can...2021-06-0859 min
Poetry CenteredBojan Louis: The Poem, ListeningBojan Louis shares poems that embody deep listening and engagement with particular realities. He introduces Alan Dugan’s grasp of each moment’s truth (“Love Song: I and Thou”); Layli Long Soldier’s poetry of image, witness, and ways of being (“WHEREAS her birth signaled…”); and Angel Nafis’s critical song that speaks to community (“Ghazal to Open Cages”). Louis closes with a recently published ghazal (“Ghazal VI”) of his own.Listen to the full recordings of Dugan, Long Soldier, and Nafis reading for the Poetry Center on Voca:Alan Dugan (1966)Layli Long Solider (2017)Angel Nafis (2019) ...2021-04-2124 min
Haymarket Books LiveDoppelgangbanger Release: Camonghne Felix Vs Morgan ParkerTwo dynamic BreakBeat poets go poem for poem on the themes that inspire them from Cortney Lamar Charleston’s Doppelgangbanger.
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This event is the first in a series of three events curated by Cortney Lamar Charleston in collaboration with The BreakBeat Poets and Haymarket Books, to celebrate the release of his new collection, Doppelgangbanger.
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Speakers:
Camonghne Felix, M.A. is a poet, a writer, speaker, & political strategist. She received an M.A. in Arts Politics from NYU, an MFA from Bard College, & has received Fellowships from Cave Canem, Callaloo & Poets House. Formerly the Director of Surrogates & Strategic Communications at...2021-03-0553 min
The Greenlight Bookstore PodcastEpisode QS9: Marie-Helene Bertino + Alexandra Kleeman & more (July 23, 2020)In the extraordinary days of early June 2020, Marie-Helene Bertino virtually launches her novel Parakeet in conversation with Alexandra Kleeman, co-hosted by BOMB Magazine. Poet Angel Nafis opens the event with a meditation and poetry reading, setting the stage for an evening encompassing love and family, dark humor, discussions of craft, racial justice, and pure literary magic. (Recorded June 2, 2020)2020-07-231h 04
Feminist HotdogReading for LiberationToday’s episode is a celebration of the written word in honor of a major milestone—the completion of the Feminist Hotdog book manuscript! (Coming January 2021.)Since words have been dominating my psyche, I decided to devote this week’s episode to reading (and writing!) for liberation. I spoke with Stef Bernal-Martinez of 1977 Books, poet Angbeen Saleem, and Alana Baumann and Samra Michael of the new podcast She Well Read about the role books and poems are playing in their pandemic lives, and the writers who help them envision a more just and intersectional future. Stuff W...2020-04-2340 minfiction/non/fictionPoetry, Blackness, and Friendship: Danez Smith on Language, Connection, and 'Homie'In this episode, acclaimed poet Danez Smith discusses the role friendship plays in their most recent collection of poetry, Homie. Smith talks to Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell about the isolating effect COVID-19 has had on black communities, using space on the page inventively, and writing about money. This episode is presented in conjunction with the Loft Literary Center’s literary festival, Wordplay, which this year is a virtual event.To hear the full episode, subscribe to the Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast through iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite po...2020-04-2352 min
The Cheeky NativesMorgan Parker: Magical NegroSend us a textMorgan Parker is American poet, novelist, and editor and the author of the poetry collections Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night (2015), There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce (2017), and Magical Negro (2019), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award poetry prize. Alongside poet Angel Nafis, she runs The Other Black Girl Collective, an internationally touring Black Feminist poetry duo. She sat down with The Cheeky Natives in an extensive conversation to discuss her poetry collection Magical Negro. The conversation took place during the Open Book Festival in Cape Town, in Parker’s fi...2020-03-171h 31
Audio Poem of the DayPoem of the Day: Angel NafisBy Angel Nafis2019-11-0603 min
Busy Being BlackFran Tirado: Content Across DifferencesIt was my encounter with Hello Mr in 2016, the magazine about men who date men, that inspired me to throw my hat into the LGBTQ media ring; for the first time, I saw what was possible and I was hooked. I turned to the masthead, saw Fran Tirado’s name and emailed him. We connected, we bonded and he’s since become one of my friends and queeroes. In this conversation, Fran and I discuss the ever-evolving landscape of LGBTQ media, the end of white twink idolatry, enjoying your own company, working in service of a greater purpos...2019-09-2851 min
WMFATelling the Hard Truths w. MORGAN PARKER
Author photo by Rachel Eliza Griffiths.
Morgan ParkerMorgan Parker is the author of the poetry collections Magical Negro, There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé, and Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night. Her debut YA novel Who Put This Song On? will be published in Fall 2019 from Delacorte Press, and her debut book of nonfiction is forthcoming from One World/Random House. Parker is the recipient of a 2017 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, winner of a Pushcart Prize, and a Cave Canem graduate fellow. She is the creator and hos...2019-03-2746 min
Food 4 ThotYou a Bad Girl and Your Friends Bad Too (feat. Danez Smith and Angel Nafis!)In true queer fam style, the Thots take you for an intimate hand-holding stroll down friendship lane. What makes a best friend, how deep does friendship go, and does queer friendship mean anything different from anything else? What are the promises we hold and keep? We rev your engines with a lil hoetry in these Twitter streets, our poverty-line vers Thot of all Thots gives us sugar, spice, and everything nice, and for dessert we preach to the choir! SHOW NOTES: food4thotpodcast.com/newsletterLive tweet the episode: twitter.com/foo...2019-03-101h 00
LET IT OUT248 | How to Not Always be Working, correct vs right or wrong, dance, creativity, & tenderness with Marlee GraceNotes from the Show:-Marlee Grace on The Web | Instagram Marlee's Books:How to Not Always Be WorkingA Sacred ShiftHow a Photo and Video Sharing Social Networking Service Gave Me My Best Friends, True Love, A Beautiful Career, and Made Me Want to Die-Marlee's Podcast -Your Art Will Save Your Life by Beth Pickins-Woody Guthrie New Years Rulins-Her former store Have Company-How to Break Up With Your Phone by Catherine Price -Article on how social media is designed to make us a...2019-01-231h 45
The Archive ProjectDawn Lundy Martin, Morgan Parker, Danez Smith (Rebroadcast)In this episode, Dawn Lundy Martin, Morgan Parker, and Danez Smith discuss the intersection of race and language, and what it means to render black bodies in literature. Together, these poets explore what it means to be a black artist in America today, and what it means to represent this experience in their work. This panel is moderated by local writer and performer Béalleka.
Dawn Lundy Martin is a poet and activist whose poetry collections include Discipline (2011), winner of the Nightboat Books Prize, and A Gathering of Matter/A Matter of Gathering (2007), which was selected for the...2018-10-2552 min
The Greenlight Bookstore PodcastEpisode 36: Justin Phillip Reed + Angel Nafis + Jayson Smith (October 3, 2018)Poet Justin Phillip Reed discusses his debut poetry collection, Indecency with Greenlight staff alums, poets Angel Nafis and Jayson Smith. Together, they read their poems, discus poetic construction, and talk about blackness and white supremacy.2018-10-031h 00Food 4 ThotBonus!! Swallow This Pride (feat. Angel Nafis)In this extra special bonus episode, we are LIVE! on stage at NYC's Bell House with special guest Angel Nafis. We joined other queer AF podcasts for the first annual Big Queer Podfest with the proceeds of the SOLD OUT crowd going straight to the Trevor Project. Tonight, we have real fake sex, pose for the camera one time, and talk about how ashamed we are to show our faces at pride. Plus, get a sneak peak at Tommy's new podcast, JUNK, which launches in July from Tin House Books! Enjoy, lil' thotties, and see u next season.2018-06-2839 min
VSAngel Nafis vs. ObservationAngel Nafis is paying attention. She talks with Danez and Franny about learning to rescale her sight, getting through grad school with some new skills in her pocket, activated charcoal, and her two Franks (Ocean and O’Hara).
2018-05-291h 08VSHanif Abdurraqib & Angel Nafis vs. AWP Live!VS gets live at AWP, where Danez and Franny hosted a packed show featuring the magnificent Hanif Abdurraqib and Angel Nafis. Hear some poems, some nipple-related discussion, and some rooftop giggles on this episode, recorded in front of a live audience on March 8th, 2018.
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2018-03-2054 minThe Archive ProjectDawn Lundy Martin, Morgan Parker, Danez SmithThis episode features a panel discussion from the 2017 Portland Book Festival wherein Dawn Lundy Martin, Morgan Parker, and Danez Smith discuss the intersection of race and language, and what it means to render black bodies in literature. Together, these poets explore what it means to be a black artist in America today, and what it means to represent this experience in their work. This panel is moderated by Portland writer and performer Béalleka.
Dawn Lundy Martin is a poet and activist whose poetry collections include Discipline (2011), winner of the Nightboat Books Prize, and A Gathering of Mat...2018-02-1451 min
Food 4 ThotLIVE! and Living for It (feat. Angel Nafis)SURPRISE BINCHES! Season 1 ain’t over quite yet. We have an extra delectable bite for you — the recording of our LIVE show at Ace Hotel in New York muthafuckin’ City. We packed the house to celebrate the fact that Tommy Pico dropped is book Nature Poem like a hot lil’ cake. Plus, local celebrity Angel Nafis joins us for this episode. We now come with a laugh track, and bb, we’re never going back. Also, we write our own gay smut — friction fiction, if you will — we discuss Tommy’s levels of slutty genius, and we end Season 1 (for realz this t...2017-06-121h 09
The Poetry GodsEpisode 11 Featuring Morgan ParkerWelcome to Episode 11 of The Poetry Gods! On this episode of The Poetry Gods, we skip our usual segment of "What's on Your Mind?" to talk about names, phases, brands, publishing, & so much more with genius poet Morgan Parker. As always, you can reach us at emailthepoetrygods@gmail.com. We are looking to book shows for Fall 2016. Bring The Poetry gods to your campus!
MORGAN PARKER BIO:
Morgan Parker is the author of Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night (Switchback Books 2015), selected by Eileen Myles for the 2013 Gatewood Prize. Her second collection, There Are More Beautiful things th...2016-07-1900 min
the Poetry Project PodcastBridget Talone & Angel Nafis - November 2nd, 2015Monday Reading Series
Angel Nafis is a Cave Canem Fellow. Her work has appeared in The Rattling Wall, Union Station Magazine, MUZZLE Magazine, Mosaic Magazine, and Poetry Magazine. She has represented the LouderArts Poetry Project at both the National Poetry Slam and the Women of the World Poetry Slam in 2011. She is an Urban Word NYC Mentor and the founder, curator, and host of the quarterly Greenlight Bookstore Poetry Salon reading series. She is the author of BlackGirl Mansion (Red Beard Press/ New School Poetics, 2012). Facilitating writing workshops and reading poems across the United States and Canada, she lives in...2016-03-1153 min
SolitudesMartin Grey - Solitudes 110Tracklist:
01. Cubicolor - Magnum
02. Markus Schulz feat. Lady V - Winter Kills Me (Chillout Mix)
03. Chimera State feat. Verenice Buerling - Life Has Just Begun (Chill Out Mix)
04. Misja Xampl feat. Sam Fisher - Embrace
05. Sinoptik Music - Long Way (Lukas Termena Remix)
06. AmBeam - Gravity
07. Ravenherz - Host (Aninvelik Remix)
08. Anthya - Green Paradise
09. Alexey Kosenko - Survive
10. CHILL OF THE MOMENT: Motorcycle - As The Rush Comes (Rayan Myers Remix)
11. Lab Of Music - Transformation
12. Dreaming Way feat. Angel Falls - I'm Lost (Chillout Mix)
13. Solar Face - Eternal
14. Maxim Hix - Waves
15. Deep Sound Effect & Stereoteric...2015-03-021h 59
DJ MASALISDJ Marcus Galante - Meet the Moon (melodic progressive)Иногда хочется выйти на балкон, распахнуть в тёплую ночь окно, и увидеть полную луну и чистое небо, усыпанное летними звездами. Так и хочется взять и взлететь и полететь навстречу к ней - к её величеству Луне. Пролелтеть между звезд и облаков. И Чтобы впереди - ничего, только ночной ветер, а под ногами черные кроны деревьев и тонкой полоской между звезд и облаков. Чтобы впереди - ничего, только ночной ветер, а под ногами черные кроны вековых дубов и тонкой полоской серебрится река у горизонта.Всем приятного прослушивания и настроения!
Matt Darey, Urban Astronauts - See The Sun feat. Kate Louise Smith (Aurosonic Remix).
DiVasco - Heat (Original Mix).
Dj Winn & Freeman feat Drilla - All About You (Valentin Remix).
Nafis - My Way To You (Original Mix).
EverLight - Superstar (Mindset Remix).
ATB feat. Anova - Sunset Beach (Original Mix).
B Craack - Crazy (Moti Brothers Remix).
Sun Island Project, VIF ft Erinya - Lets Fly (Original Russian Mix).
The Madison & Simon J. feat. Aelyn - Angel (Willem De Roo Remix).
Andy Moor - Halcyon (Original Mix).
Cerf, Mitiska & Jaren - Down To You (Pulser Vocal Mix).
Anton Sonin & Amx feat. Sari - Never Go (Progressiver Remix).
Arty feat. Tania Zygar - The Wall (Original Extended Mix).
Abstract Vision & Elite Electronic - Forgotten Dreams (Sunlight Mix).2012-07-141h 28