12 episodes

Love Jawns: A Mixtape (LJAM) is a soundtrack of the city, by the people, for your commuting & daydreaming pleasure. Three poets share a poem. A DJ stitches them together with musical interludes. Produced by Philadelphia Contemporary, a freestanding space for contemporary & performance art.

Love Jawns: A Mixtape Various

    • Music
    • 5.0 • 20 Ratings

Love Jawns: A Mixtape (LJAM) is a soundtrack of the city, by the people, for your commuting & daydreaming pleasure. Three poets share a poem. A DJ stitches them together with musical interludes. Produced by Philadelphia Contemporary, a freestanding space for contemporary & performance art.

    Big Wash Mini-Mix

    Big Wash Mini-Mix

    A special collaboration with the Fabric Workshop and Museum inspired by Jonathan Lyndon Chase's "Big Wash" exhibition opening in January 2021. Featuring poetry by JONATHAN LYNDON CHASE & JAMAL RASHAD.  Spun by VINCE ANTHONY. 

    • 6 min
    Fall Mini-Mix

    Fall Mini-Mix

    A special collaboration with #VoteThatJawn, an initiative that aims to bring 18-year-olds and other first-time voters to the polls. Featuring Philly Youth Poet Laureates MIA CONCEPCION, CYDNEY BROWN & WES MATTHEWS in response to Walt Whitman’s poem “Election Day: November 1884.” Spun by VINCE ANTHONY. 

    • 9 min
    Summer Jawn

    Summer Jawn

    An extended Juneteenth mix featuring freedom songs by QUINCY SCOTT JONES, HUSNAA HASHIM, NOOR IBN NAJAM, JASMINE L. COMBS, KAI DAVIS, ASHLEY DAVIS, TRAPETA B. MAYSON & YOLANDA WISHER. Spun by VINCE ANTHONY.

    • 25 min
    LJAM PSA

    LJAM PSA

    Special mini-mix featuring poet & comic book author QUINCY SCOTT JONES & current Philadelphia Poet Laureate TRAPETA B. MAYSON. Spun by VINCE ANTHONY. 

    • 12 min
    Two Stops Early

    Two Stops Early

    Featuring MIA CONCEPCION, 2019-2020 Philadelphia Youth Poet Laureate + NOOR IBN JABAM, a poet who teases, challenges, breaks & creates language + poet, performer & educator DENICE FROHMAN. Spun by Detroit-born, Philly-based DJ A-LIST. “Two Stops Early” is a phrase from Denice Frohman’s poem “A Queer Girl’s Ode to the Piragüero.” This episode concludes The Second Jawn. 

    • 19 min
    Some Very Important Chisme

    Some Very Important Chisme

    Featuring MERCEDEZ HOLTRY, poet, writer, mentor, and Chicana feminist + META SARMIENTO, Filipino rapper and poet born and raised in Guam who now calls Denver, CO home + TOLUWANIMI OBIWOLE, a Nigerian multi-disciplinary artist, organizer, and healer. Spun by MERCURII AKA TOLUWA OBIWOLE. “Some Very Important Chisme” is a line from Mercedez Holtry’s poem “Chisme and Lavender Carmel Coffee.”

    • 20 min

Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5
20 Ratings

20 Ratings

Sad Patrick ,

Like a Great Open Mic

The music, the poetry, the flow and the focus. Grab yourself a cup of something, settle in, and enjoy.

SonShine99 ,

For all tha jawns!

This def gives me a little piece of home being all the way here in Georgia!! It’s. So. Philly 😍 unique, fresh, soulful! Probably my new favorite thing. Can’t wait to hear more!! Y’all killed this!

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