Shadow and Light
Shadow and Light
Podcast Description
Welcome to Shadow and Light, a historic podcast experience where we embark on a poetic journey, time-traveling to reclaim forgotten narratives. Hosted by Keyari Page, this series shines a spotlight on unsung heroes and ignites their stories through the power of original verse and immersive soundscapes. Keyari masterfully crafts each poem, drawing inspiration from the lives, courage, and powerful words of these remarkable figures, often weaving in lines from their own profound work or documented truths, ensuring their legacy is not just remembered, but reborn.
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Content Themes
The podcast focuses on historic figures, cultural narratives, and poetry with specific themes such as race, resistance, and love. Episodes like 'The Quiet Fire' highlight influential women poets from the 1920s Harlem scene, exploring their impact on society through their powerful, courageous verses.
Welcome to Shadow and Light, a historic podcast experience where we embark on a poetic journey, time-traveling to reclaim forgotten narratives. Hosted by Keyari Page, this series shines a spotlight on unsung heroes and ignites their stories through the power of original verse and immersive soundscapes. Keyari masterfully crafts each poem, drawing inspiration from the lives, courage, and powerful words of these remarkable figures, often weaving in lines from their own profound work or documented truths, ensuring their legacy is not just remembered, but reborn.
A Bonus Episode of Shadow and Light
Gun violence is often reduced to headlines, statistics, and soundbites.
The Smoking Gun refuses that reduction.
In this bonus episode of Shadow and Light, host Keyari Page takes listeners on an immersive journey through the lived reality of losing someone to gun violence—not from the moment of the act, but from what follows: the knock at the door, the unanswered calls, the anger, the temptation of revenge, and the daily battle to keep living without becoming what caused the harm.
Produced by Keyari Page and Samir Smith (also known as BL A CK), the episode blends spoken word, original songs, and sound design to centre grief, memory, and restraint. It honours two loved ones who deserve justice, while acknowledging a truth many know too well: when a life is stolen, time keeps moving—and the mind struggles to keep up.
The episode culminates in a powerful mashup between Keyari’s spoken-word piece “Losing My—” and BL A CK’s original song “Losing My Mind,” merging voice, music, and memory into a single act of remembrance.
This is not a story about the killer.
It is a story about the stolen.
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