In this rich and resonant episode of Quintessential Listening Poetry Online Radio and YouTube, Dr. Michael Anthony Ingram engages poet, storyteller, essayist, and cultural curator Roberto Carlos Garcia in a quintessential poetry podcast conversation exploring his creative journey, literary expression, and Afro-Latinx poetics. Listeners should increase the audio volume due to sound issues.

Garcia describes himself as a “sancocho […] of provisions from the Harlem Renaissance, the Spanish Poets of 1929, the Black Arts Movement, the Nuyorican School, and the Modernists,” reflecting the layered traditions that shape his voice. He founded Get Fresh Books Publishing, a cooperative press dedicated to amplifying diverse literary voices, and currently serves as a New Jersey State Council on the Arts Poetry Fellow.

His collection Black / May ...