# Listening With Ron Whitehead, US National Lifetime Beat Poet Laureate

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Podcast: [Listening with China Blue](https://stenobird.com/podcast/listening-with-china-blue-7030316)
Published: 2025-09-15T14:33:36+00:00
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In "Listening with China Blue" hear from the US National Lifetime Beat Poet Laureate, Ron Whitehead who says "Listening is the greatest art of all" Whitehead is a poet, author and runs the non-profit organization Global Literary Renaissance, to support literature worldwide. He teaches, and collaborates with artists and musicians focusing primarily on the Louisville art scene and Kentucky folk art. Whitehead was also the honorary poetry editor of GonzoToday. Whitehead who has authored thirty titles was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize twice, and nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. He published a book of poems titled The View From Lawrence Ferlinghetti's Bathroom Window and collaborated with Ferlinghetti the poet and founder of City Lights Booksellers on other projects. Ferlinghetti called him the "Bodhisattva in Kentucky"

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