BONUS EPISODE!While waiting for Season 2, check out this bonus episode of The Poet Speaks Podcast! We welcome to the podcast, Marcellus Nealy, co-editor of Umoja: ToPoJo Excursions - Black diaspora Edition. The FIRST poetry collection written by all black poets and writers to ever be produced in Japan! Marcellus found his poetic voice in the mid-1990s on a small stage in Tokyo, at the popular British Pub, What the Dickens. From there, he dove full-on into the world of spoken word. He is the winner of several international poetry slams. He has been invited to perform globally at well known events like the Montreal Jazz Festival, Heineken Greenroom Festival in Singapore, and the globally televised charity event Live 8, which over 1 billion people viewed. He also toured with Japan’s most legendary pop band, DREAMS COME TRUE, spending an eight-year residency with the band as a lyricist, rapper, spoken word performer, and background vocalist. Check out this amazing conversation between Amanda and Marcellus!