Season 3 proudly presents 'Forced hyphenation and poetry' featuring Podcast host, poet and wordsmith Imogen Arate! In this episode, Imogen shares her two poems "Eye Rolling on International Women’s Day" and "To Whose End." Imogen shares her motivations and feelings behind her work, her commitment and passion for giving the under-represented a platform to share their poetry and talks about the importance of healing. Imogen believes that issues and experiences during childhood play a critical role in later life, affecting relationships, work and belief systems. We discuss poetry as a powerful means of expressing one's voice and the success Imogen's award-winning podcast 'Poets and Muses' has achieved, highlighting poets from various backgrounds." "Everybody is different", stresses Imogen. And just because two people are from an ethnic minority, it doesn't mean they are the same - a powerful point! I'll leave the rest to the episode! 😉 More about Imogen:

Imogen Arate is an award-winning Asian-American poet and writer and the Executive Producer and Host of Poets and Muses, a weekly poetry podcast that won second place at National Federation of Press Women's 2020 Communications Contest.🏆She has written in four languages and published in two. Her poems, “A Declaration of Loyalty” and “Sanctuary” placed Second and Third, respectively, in the 2020 National Federation of Press Women at-Large Communications Contest. 🏆 Her poetry has appeared in 18 publications on four continents, most recently in The New Verse News, I Wanna Be Loved by You: Poems on Marilyn Monroe and Dwell Time. You can find her @PoetsandMuses and @ImogenArate on Twitter and Instagram.