{"id":1335,"date":"2021-04-01T17:56:17","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T17:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/?p=1335"},"modified":"2025-08-07T18:09:39","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T18:09:39","slug":"joshua-moore-honored-by-poetry-foundation-for-work-on-versify-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/joshua-moore-honored-by-poetry-foundation-for-work-on-versify-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"Joshua Moore honored by Poetry Foundation for work on &#8216;Versify&#8217; podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Joshua Moore (MFA &#8217;20) has been honored by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/harriet\/2021\/03\/winners-chosen-for-vs-roll-call-a-black-poetry-radio-hour\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Poetry Foundation<\/a> for his production on the Fisk Jubilee Singers, broadcasted on WPLN&#8217;s podcast <a href=\"https:\/\/wpln.org\/programs\/versify-podcast\/page\/2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Versify<\/a>.\u00a0 This work, written and produced by Joshua,<\/strong><strong> has been selected as one of six episodes to air on<em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/harriet\/2020\/12\/submissions-open-for-vs-roll-call-a-black-poetry-radio-hour\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Roll Call<\/a>: A Black Poetry Radio Hour<\/em>, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/podcasts\/series\/142241\/vs-podcast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">VS podcast<\/a> miniseries to spotlight urgent and emergent conversations in contemporary poetry.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN\">The episode featuring Joshua&#8217;s work will be a one-hour dramatic production tracking the evolution and influence of the Fisk Jubilee Singers over the past 150 years, focusing on three landmark performances: their inaugural tour, their concert in Queen Victoria\u2019s court, and their 2007 \u201cA Sacred Journey\u201d concert at Elmina Castle in Ghana. The narrative will be interspersed with poems written by Black Nashville\/Fisk-affiliated poets in response to Jubilee Singers\u2019 archival materials.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN\">Joshua Moore (he\/him) is a Nashville poet, the host and producer for Nashville Public Radio\u2019s\u00a0<em>Versify<\/em>\u00a0podcast, and the lead writer\/producer of<em>\u00a0Seizing Freedom<\/em>\u00a0from VPM and\u00a0Stitcher, he holds an MFA from Vanderbilt University; musician Colleen Phelps hosts and produces the podcast\u00a0<em>Classically Speaking<\/em>\u00a0from Nashville Public Radio and is the Music Director and Midday Host at WUOL Classical Louisville.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joshua Moore (MFA &#8217;20) has been honored by the Poetry Foundation for his production on the Fisk Jubilee Singers, broadcasted on WPLN&#8217;s podcast Versify.\u00a0 This work, written and produced by Joshua, has been selected as one of six episodes to air on\u00a0Roll Call: A Black Poetry Radio Hour, a VS podcast miniseries to spotlight urgent&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":1336,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[5],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/04\/01174524\/Joshua-Versify.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1337,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions\/1337"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}