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Spoken Stories

Endlesswill, 2017-2018 Hillsborough’s Poet Laureate, brings today’s stories to life through powerful music and poetry performances of contemporary artists. Spoken Stories will bring new worlds to the ear through the blending of lyrical hip-hop, R&B, and spoken word performances. Enjoy an hour filled with beats, ballads, and laughter as Endlesswill draws out how each artist began their journey, their creative process, and their relationship to music and poetry. From Durham pioneer of poetry Dasan Ahanu to 2017 Hip Hop Group of the Year 9192, award-winning artists from NC and beyond will regale your mind with a modern twist on the Southern tradition of spoken stories.

Spoken Stories Archives

6/20/18 – Ayanna Yann Albertson w/ A.yoni Jeffries

Ayanna Albertson is a poet and  writer amongst many other things. Spending most of her life in North Carolina, Ayanna’s poetry embodies the lifestyle of a southern black woman mixed with wit yet simplistic substance. In the last year, Ayanna has participated in various slam poetry competitions across the county, has won Grand Slam Champion […]

6/13/18 – Fuze Aquene Namid and Nacynze

Fuze Aquene Namid (fuse a/keen nah/meed) is a poet, creative writer, author, visual/graphic artist, philosopher and spiritualist.  For the past 17 years, his expression entity known as i*stimyouleye (eye/stim/you/lie) has provided creative writing, visual and audio concepts for book, music, film, commercial, and workshop purposes.  His latest work is book #14 from his Langston Fuze […]

6/6/18 – Blavk San and OC from NC

It’s about finding a way to mix up your craft and giving people something new, and raw, and exciting. Once you’ve found a way to mix it then you have to master it. It’s hard to stay focused and do what you need to do in order to get to where you want to be. […]

5/30/18 – Acquilla Faye and Tyson Ca

Dr. Acquilla Faye is known for sharing the Creator’s Love as a Global Life Transformation Guide & Strategist, Media Empress, poet and Devoted mother. She is a Best Selling Author, Internationally recognized and Awarding winning educator, media personality, and artist .  Her media presence helps optimize peace, clarity and productivity to help 1,000,000,000’s people spiritually, […]

5/23/18 – NakitaJay Poet and Defacto Thezpian

NakitaJay Poet began writing poetry around the age of 9. “A World In Tune” was her first poem written in grade school where she won first place in a writing competition. From that experience her love of the arts was born. Now a noted featured artist and lyrical diva with the pen, NakitaJay joins us […]

5/16/18 – Eboni Dean w/ Justin the BeLoved

Eboni Dean,  born and raised in Durham, NC. Hillside bread local artist,  basketball player for Barton college and has been heating up the triangle scene for some time with her poetic pen.  With musical feature Justin the BeLoved; whether opening for Grammy-award winning artist Fred Hammond, or performing at a private party for a special event, Justin […]

5/9/18 – DS Will w/ Jrusalam

As the founder of the Press Play Poetz collective, DS Will has always been aware that writing can be a form of expression, a way to educate, or a means to escape. Be it through his skill as an MC, his ability as a poet, or serving as the voice of the jettisoned, through his […]

5/2/18 – Travis Kyng w/ Shame Clark

Have you ever undergone a metamorphosis? A change that rewired the workings of your own self-perception? Well our feature Travis Kyng is going to let us know all about his personal growth within himself as a poet a man as he as embraced his rewiring. A published author whose most recent book The Phoenix That […]