In this Season 10 finale of The Poet Speaks Podcast, host Amanda Eke sits with Muttertongue — Lillian Allen, Gary Barwin, and Gregory Betts — to explore poetry as sound, collaboration, and living archive.

Their latest project, What Is a Word in Utter Space, is a sonic poetry LP that bends language beyond the page, inviting listeners into a layered soundscape where voice, rhythm, and experimentation converge. Together, we discuss the making of the album, the power of collective creation, and how poetry can exist as frequency, memory, and resistance.

This conversation moves through questions of utterance and listening, art as collaboration, and what it means to create poetry that refuses stillness. More than an interview, this episode is an experience — a closing reflection on a season rooted in culture, testimony, and imagination.
Season 10 has been a journey of voices, histories, and futures. We close with resonance.

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Poetry in Utter Space (ft. Lillian Allen, Gary Barwin, and Gregory Betts)