Featuring Jose Luis Reyes and Noman Jalal

"Homesick"

Featuring Seko 1844 and Zar of the Moon

Krystyna Matczak is an educator and writer. She earned her MFA from City College of New York, and she currently teaches orphans in Iraq for the non-profit: World Academy of Development. We discuss, among other topics, acclimating to a new, vastly...

This episode's guest is Miguel, an educator and thinker, holding degrees in psychology and in philosophy. He also goes by the alias Megalith X, in reference to Neolithic stones that stand like gravestones and to Derrida, who speaks of the arbitrary...

This episode features a conversation with host Jim Noguera, musician Marcos de Jesus and literature student Jaroslav Grytsayo about race, identity, and identity politics. It was originally a four-person conversation, but one of the participants...

Daniel Yousef Tehrani (FB: ) is a singer and musician, as well as a teacher and tutor of English and writing. We sit down to chat about, among other topics, music and its effect on people, his formative years, and his influences. He even sings and...

Dominick Gaffney (IG: @nyl22) is former VP of student government at Bronx CC. He comes back to the Pod to discuss, among other things: working at BCC's Writing Center, relationships and breakups, Trump, and making America better . . . again.  You...

Rebecca YS Perez (@writer.rebeccaysperez, IG) is a spoken word artist and writer. She recently self-published a book titled I Hope You Fall in Love: A Collection of Poetry and Prose. We talk over Skype with regards to the book, her writing process,...

Sam Kimball (@sammytheoutlaw, IG) is a freelance journalist currently based in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. He joins me via FaceTime. We discuss such issues as the state of independent journalism in the Kurdistan Region, the difference between...