hello again, it’s been a while this is alone together   I am always fascinated by the ways poetry comes to you. it always finds you, in multitudinous and multivarious ways in fact, it would be safe to say. there are as many different ways for poetry to find a poet, as there are for your poems to find me.   todays episode, shows the work of a poet I liked the work of. that’s about it. no theme, no stimulus word, no prestige... at least not yet.  They are a verse maker from North Carolina, the far side of the pond from me. with a hallucinatory and sonically fluid work that I thoug ..read more

Loss Hurts. It just does. So let’s be real for a sec. Let’s talk about it. Poems and thoughts By Casey Bailey Samples of Lawrence Brownlee and Jason Moran Via NPR Sound by think Write Fly ..read more

It's ThinkWriteFly's Turn to share some Poems, He's taking his pen for a walk ..read more

How Locked down are you? Right now? Are we shielding? Do you, like me, keep misplacing your mask? This is a moment, a strange one to experience. So it was a pleasure to work with a poet and a poem that captures it. Whether in the form of a photograph. or a glow fly in a bottle. Poetry By Jessica Mookherjee, Sound By ThinkWriteFly ..read more

I can’t tell… Whether its the campfire, the neon of the City, or our phone screens. But, this is Episode 3. And it’s Glowing. Featuring the Verse and Voices of Louise McStravick, Rhiannon Fidler and Suna Afshan ..read more

Featuring the Poetry of :Cynthia Rodriguez, Lerah Mae Barcenilla & Leila Khanem Howl. Sound: ThinkWriteFly ..read more

For the first experiment in this project, I ask some fellow poets to write on the theme of Quiet. This is what they had to say. featuring the work of Kibriyah Mehrban, Eleanor Rushton Kamil Mahmood, Shaun Hill, and Emma Thompson Sound by ThinkWriteFly next episodes theme is: ‘Arboretum’ Scribble something, try it out, when you are ready, find your voice recorder app on your phone. say your name, a title ( if your poem has one) and perform. email the sound file to Contact@versefirst.org Inbox is open from the 27th April to the 1st of May. Looking Forward to hearing what you write ..read more

We gather together in Coffee shops, Pub back rooms, Theater spaces art galleries sometimes even living rooms to speak verse to listening ears. It's what we live for, we wordsmiths. We find ourselves in the undulating gaze of an audience, validate our art on the mics and stages of venues as much as we do the Pages of books and magazines. The stages are quiet now. We find ourselves asking if a poem, unspoken, in a closed book, in an isolated room, is still a poem? VerseFirst is trying an experiment. To invite poets to read for an audience, they can neither see nor hear. I'm inviting poets to wri ..read more