Advocate Of Wordz is an award winning performing poet, published author, and teaching artist who has been honoring his craft for over a decade. He is a recipient of the 2014 BRIO Award, a resident artist at the famed “Lincoln Center” in New York City. He is the host and program manager of the legendary Nuyorican Poets Café. His work has been featured and/or covered by many major publications including PBS, LA Times, Fox News, Univision and El Museo del Barrio’s anthology “Speak Up, Speak Out”. Wordz has toured many notable establishments such as Princeton University, Roseland Ballroom (Broadway), and Georgetown University to name a few. His book “Advocate Of Wordz; a book of poems and other creative nonsense that is imperative to your existence” can be found on Amazon and is also available at all his live performances.

Recorded in New York City, New York, USA on March 9, 2022.

Over the years Balgochian has earned his reputation as a dedicated musician and composer. A rare breed of funk and free improvisation, he was the house bassist for the original "House of Blues" in Cambridge, MA., and a long time member of the 2 time Handy Award winner "Paul Rishell Band." In the soul, funk, R&B arena he has worked with Darryl Jones (Miles Davis, Rolling Stones) Jr. Medlow (The Cobras) and Big John Kroft (The Fabulous Blends.) As a free funk improviser he has worked with Nuyorican poet Miguel Algarin, Steve Dalachinsky and Yuko Otomo, Beat Poet John Sinclair, Butoh dancer Min Tanaka and Sun Ra's Marshall Allen. A member of the Cecil Taylor Trio & Big Band they were awarded Best Performances of '05, '09, and '16 - All About Jazz.

Recorded in New York City, New York, USA on March 10, 2022.

Dr Ravichandra P Chittampalli was formerly Professor and Chair, Department of Studies in English, University of Mysore. He was the K Tirumalachar Fellow, Dhvanyaloka, Mysore; twice Shashtri Fellow, and Northrop Frye Fellow, Northrop Frye Center, university of Victoria in the University of Toronto. His English translation of a major modernist Kannada novel, The Avatars of Bhujangaiah is on the postgraduate syllabus of University of Mysore and the Karnataka State Open University.

His poems are taught on B A courses in Karnataka State Open University and Mahajana’s Autonomous College. Apart from many of his translations from Kannada into English, recently, Sahitya Akademi, the national Academy of Letters in India has published his Kannada Literature from 13th Century through 19th Century: A Reader in English, edited and translated jointly with Professor M G Hegde. His poems and research articles have been published in journals and periodicals of national and international repute. He now lives in Malaysia and writes poetry in English.

Recorded in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on , 2022.

"Diane is a proud New Yorker of West Indian descent. Her creative endeavors began with modern dance choreography, blog talk radio hosting and continued by writing reviews/prose / poetic works, appearing in journals/anthologies and open mic performances with international peers.

Her published works and book reviews appear within a variety of publications including NHK Haiku Masters Gallery, “Love Letters to Gaia” and the “Bronx Council of the Arts Bronx Memoir Project Volumes IV and V.”

Always an active member of the National Writers Union, She presently serves on their International and Immigration Committee.

She appears in several venues which include the Nuyorican Poets Café, Art In the Basin, Creative Expressions, Unmesh (Mohitkar) Life, Phynnecabulary (Tricia De Jesus-Gutierrez), Between the Lines and They Call Me Mitch.

Recorded in New York City, New York, USA, on June 15, 2022.

Stephanie Dogfoot (they/she)is a Singaporean writer, performer and producer whose first poetry collection, Roadkill for Beginners (Math Paper Press, 2019) explores growing up, found family and good times in strange places. The founder of a poetry night called Spoke & Bird, Stephanie is inspired by mud and Southeast Asian wildlife.

Social Media: @stephdogfoot

Facebook: Stephanie Dogfoot

Recorded in Singapore on June 19, 2022

Robert Yeo has written in many genres, beginning with poems, then going into plays, fiction, essays, autobiograpny and libretto for opera. He has also edited anthologies of plays and poems for schools and co-written books on the teaching of literature. He attended the famous International  Writing Program in Iowa in 1978 and in 2011 was awarded the SE Asia Write prize. His major publications are The Best of Robert Yeo ( collected poems ), Routes 1940-75 A Singaporean memoir, and The Singapore Trilogy. The Trilogy, his influential political plays, will be reprinted in a new edition in June this year by Epigram Books.

Recorded in Singapore on June 21, 2022

Juliet Choo was a writer for “New Nation,” a paper owned by Singapore Press Holdings. Her column “Cook In” was created to encourage Singaporeans to cook and eat more creatively at home.

Recorded in Singapore on June 22 , 2022.

Lim Yu-Beng is a Singaporean actor for the stage and screen. He won Best Actor in 2005, Best Supporting Actor in 2004, and was in the Best Acting Ensemble in 2002, all for the Life! Theatre Awards. He was also nominated in 2005 for the Asian Television Awards for Best Actor.

He continues to explore new ground, and works extensively as an actor, director, writer, acting coach, lighting designer, fight choreographer and whatever it takes to get the show up.

Recorded in Singapore, on June 23, 2022

Roy Moody is an American entrepreneur living in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. He is the co-owner of “The Hideout Sports Bar” and “Birdie’s Mini-Golf.” Roy grew up in San Diego and retired from the San Diego police department after 33 years.  He moved to Phnom Penh  to look for adventure. Roy took a retirement job as the Corporate Security Manager for Bassaka Air.. A Cambodian based Airline.

Recorded in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on July 5, 2022.

I am a writer and photographer, currently living in Vietnam. I was born in Haiti and grew up in South America and Southeast Asia. I studied at Syracuse University, where I earned an MFA in Creative Writing. I have lived and worked in Afghanistan, Bolivia, Rwanda and the Philippines.

My first novel, Moondogs, was published by Doubleday in 2011. My second (and my first for younger readers), The Winter Place, was published by Atheneum and Simon & Schuster UK in 2015. My third, How We Became Wicked, was published in July, 2019. Other fiction has appeared in Salon, Recommended Reading, The Kenyon Review and American Fiction. 

Recorded in Hanoi, Vietnam on July 9, 2022.

Gill Enes III of Raiz Tribal is a singer, writer, musician and composer. He is living and working in São Luís, Brazil. The musicality and reggae rhythms of Raiz Tribal connects you to the soul. Check out Raiz Tribal’s music on Spotify and music videos on YouTube.

Recorded in Sao Luis, Brazil on July 17, 2022

Teajai Travis, the current Executive Director of Artcite Inc., is an Astro/Indigenous descendant of over/underground railroad travellers, and like his ancestors, he is a child of the stars. Charged with an ancestral calling to conjure spells from coded words patterned in heirloom stories, Travis uses rhythmic word patterns in his poetry to carry wor(L)ds from one generation to the next. His practice as a keeper of story is to translate the multi-dimensional axes of energetic language into expressions of rhythmic tapestries that extract periodic elements from constellational landscapes. Travis’ interest in language construction as an ancestral mapping system and the vibrational matter of the spoken word inspire his cosmic investigation into the theory of “As above, also below” and “As within, also without”. His previous works The Madness in My Mind 2007, 7th Realm/Abstract Element 2010, Missing from History: Women of the Underground Railroad, Born Enslaved: A Freedom Story 2016, Growing Up Mixed 2019 and currently 13 Poems reveal a theme of esotericism and a continued interest in the ancestral science of creation. The art of storytelling provides a generational wealth of truth and knowledge but most important – imagination and mystery. Teajai utilizes the utility of his craft to channel the fragmented imprints of his ancestors, lending his voice to their teachings. He considers his work to act as a channel (when chosen) to communicate on behalf of his relations. Teajai Travis is the current Multicultural Community Storyteller for the City Windsor (2022-2024).

Recorded in Windsor, Canada on September 8th, 2022

Clive Oseman is a UK based spoken word artist, comedian, satirist and promoter. Born in and very much attached to Birmingham in the West Midlands, he is currently based in Swindon in Wiltshire. A latecomer to performing, he is a multi slam winner who has three times competed in the UK slam finals and is an established headliner. His third collection, “It Could be Verse” was published in 2020 and a fourth, containing the poems from his one man show “What if they laugh at me?” is imminent. “What if they laugh at me?”, is a comedy very much based on his own lived experience as someone who always dreamed of making people laugh but after a difficult start to life was severely lacking in self confidence, was desperately shy and struggled to find the courage to perform, but ultimately spoken word and comedy transformed his life.

Recorded in Governor’s Island, New York City, USA on September 10th, 2022