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Alyssa Pacheco is a central-Illinois based creative who's lived in Alaska, Colorado and Ohio. She's the author of "Dear, Desperation" and "Love, in Liquid Form". She enjoys hiking, camping and a solid road trip playlist, often drawing inspiration for her work from travel and music, or a good podcast or book. She believes everyone should explore expressive writing and journaling, and her goals this year are to publish her third book, expand her publishing company endeavours, submit work to journals and continue efforts in creating community around poetry and storytelling.

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Continuing with stories behind the slam, this week I share "The Great Orange Hope", a poetic tribute to Hayley Williams of Paramore, one of the most enduring pop-punk bands of a generation.

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Rachael Williams is a spoken word poet and writer from Darkinjung Country on the NSW Central Coast. She has featured at poetry slams and festivals across NSW including Byron Writers Festival, Yours & Owls Festival, and in the ACT at Canberra Slam. Williams is a two-time finalist in The National Youth Poetry Slam, and in 2024, performed with Bankstown Poetry Grand Slam for a sold-out Sydney Town Hall. Hitting venues like the Sydney Opera House and the State Library last year, Williams was the 2024 NSW State Poetry Slam Champion, and the 2024 National Runner-Up in the Australian Poetry Slam. Her collection "I Have Loved You Since You Were Tiny and Crawling, And I Wasn’t Born Or Alive Yet" launched at the State Library of NSW last October.

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Adara Enthaler is a spoken word poet living on Dharawal Land in Wollongong, and is the host of Enough Said Poetry Slam. She has featured at writers festivals, folk festivals and poetry slams across NSW, and her writing has appeared in numerous anthologies from Baby Teeth Journal and Heroines Festival, as well as her poetry zines "Equidistant" (2018) and "Crowdsourced Poems" (2022). She performed in the Bankstown Poetry Slam Grand Slam in 2023 and 2024, and won in 2026 at Sydney Opera House with her team In Other Words.

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Welcome to the very first solo episode of ITTIS, a brand new format where you'll be hearing original slam poetry from ITTIS host Andrew Rogerson and the stories behind the slam.

This week I share "INexHAhaLEle", a poem about an unequal friendship and the damage that unchecked narcissism can cause.

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Andrew Horner - also known as Drew Horner - is an actor, poet, voice over artist and a host on a popular movie podcast Rage Whale. He has played many characters both on stage and screen as well as voicing characters for video games such as Divinity Original Sin 2 and Augmented Empire. He uses his voice to perform spoken word pieces, and has published 2 poetry collections the first being My Life in Pieces and more recently Drunk on Lies Sober on Truth. He has a spoken word album out called Strong Enough To Break under the name Creative Tales with his creative-partner and music producer/composer Tomàs Almeida. With his poetry he aims to break stigmas on important topics like mental health, suicide awareness and phone addiction. As a poet he tries to right/write the wrongs that society may choose to ignore!

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Paris Rosemont is a multi-disciplinary, multi-award-winning Thai Australian writer and author of poetry collections "Banana Girl" and "Barefoot Poetess", shortlisted for awards in Australia, Greece, UK and USA. The latter was awarded Distinguished Favorite in the NYC Big Book Awards 2025. Paris has also recently released a chapbook ">>glitch<<". Paris’s poetry has been published in over one hundred literary journals and anthologies worldwide, including Australian Poetry Journal, Rabbit, Splinter, and Sky Island Journal. Winner of the Matthew Rocca Poetry Prize 2025 and longlisted for the Blake Poetry Prize 2026, Paris is also a critic for Mascara Literary Journal, Guest Editor for Written Off Literary Journal, sits on the Hunter Writers’ Centre Board, and is Chair of the Poetry Books Judging Panel for the Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards 2026. Her niche is in performance poetry, and she has performed on festival stages nationwide and internationally. One producer hailed Paris as ‘the wildest of wildcards’.

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THIS IS THE SEASON 2 FINALE OF ITTIS, THANK YOU ALL FOR LISTENING!

Brandon Leake is the season 15 winner of America’s Got Talent, a 7x Telly Award Winner, 1x SOVAS Award Winner, and 1x Emmy Award Winner. Brandon has been a Poetic Performer, Keynote Speaker, and Workshop leader for over a decade, traveling locations such as: New Zealand, Canada, Mexico, and 42 States. Brandon has collaborated with companies such as Meta, CBS, California Hospital Association, Good Morning America, Golden State Warriors, Sacramento Kings, and many others. Brandon’s use of personal narrative with his gifting in poetic prose allows him to speak not merely to crowds, but to their inner being, to connect one soul to another, to connect people to an intrinsic sense of communal humanity that is at times severely lacking in our world. Brandon Leake is a visionary, whose words, but most importantly actions reflect his love of Christ, people, and the world.

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