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.
[Index]
- 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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Off Page: September 2020
For this month’s showcase, we got the Lao & Mien songstress SIRENA, non-binary poet star Pastiche Queen, clique fam actor/rapper/poet Matt Nye, our first international poet Kitty Kaji, and Dope Spot hiphop homie Jüne!
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Episode 1 ft. David A Romero
David A. Romero brings chicano poetry fire to ‘Threads and Lines’, The Clique debates Saul Williams in the ‘2 Piece Combo’ and Romero closes out the show with a LIT prompted poem for ‘5 For Ya’ Eye’.
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Word Spoken Presents: The Pen Clique Season 2 Mixtape
REEEMIX! The good homies across the pond Word Spoken podcast, whom we featured in our last off-season episode, now returns the favor with a Pen Clique SEASON 2 MIXTAPE! This episode features dope moments throughout season 2 that hit you in that special Pen Clique way.
