After daily posts and weekly livestreams all throughout 2020, we ghosted in April 2021 without warning. We finally address what happened to Pen Clique, where we’ve been, what we’ve been up to and our plans for Pen Clique.
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- 0:00 – Whoops! Forgot to mention…
- 1:20 – 2020 in summary
- 2:21 – What happened to season 3?
- 3:55 – Making quarantine content was weird
- 6:33 – Unforeseen responsibilities
- 8:05 – Getting burnt out & seeing the big picture
- 10:18 – Getting ahead of ourselves (and the bag)
- 11:42 – Doing whatever we want with poetry cause we CAN
- 13:51 – The STRESS of doing too much w/ high expectations
- 14:34 – The story of reviving the poetry clash
- 17:10 – 2020 was a series of beta tests
- 19:02 – Pen Clique plans for the rest of the year
- 21:50 – Additional drops and personal projects
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Episode 06 Ft. Lyrically Twisted
Lyrically Twisted takes the stage as the Clique’s first and only rapper of the season! The whole clique delve deep into loneliness while staying LIT AF during the “2 Piece Combo” and LT aka Tyrone Stokes spits his “5 for ya eye” prompt off the top.
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Off Page: July 2020
This time around we got Kae Cee representing Columbus with poetry love, Localcolor bringing the neo-soul vibes, the Pomona family and shwavy one himself Jonnie Bars who always is in fact bars, the songbird poet and Pen Clique family Brian Oliva with the music magic tricks, the slam god and hip hop hero Matthew Cuban bringing heat off his newest album Ivanna 2, and model, actress, author, and poet Arielle Estoria with all the love and healing you can fit into a single poem to close.
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Episode 23 ft. Shalane Goss
How do we grow through heartbreak? On the final episode of season 2, Shalane Goss joins the clique as they dive into their feels and wade through the murky waters of accountability in relationships during ‘Threads and Lines.’ An 18 year old Sarah Kay performing on Def Poetry gets the ‘2 Piece combo’ poetry review treatment, and the clique pull unexpected gold during the #poetry Instagram poetry review. Shalane ends the show with love abounding with her ‘Five for Ya Eye’ prompted poem.
