The poets remain the artists

Poets represented

Original voices exploring what poetry can become through music.

Richard Blanco

Poetronica artist

Richard Blanco

The fifth Presidential Inaugural Poet in U.S. history, recipient of the National Humanities Medal, and Inaugural Miami-Dade County Poet Laureate.

Nothing Here I Don’t Remember EP is Blanco’s debut poetronica project, reimagining “Looking for The Gulf Motel” through folk, jazz, and Latin interpretations.

Born in Madrid to Cuban exile parents and raised in Miami, his award-winning work explores home, memory, identity, family, belonging, and the places where personal and collective histories meet.

His acclaimed collections include City of a Hundred Fires, Looking for The Gulf Motel, How to Love a Country, and Homeland of My Body.

Michael Teichberg, founder and artist behind Dust and Clay

Founding artist · The experiment that started it all

Dust and Clay

Michael Teichberg produces music as Dust & Clay based on his published poetry in the 2023 award-winning, Amazon #1 bestseller debut, ManuScrita: Poems on Life, Love, & the Nature of Reality.

What began as a creative experiment in the summer of 2025 has grown into a global catalog spanning genres, languages, and cultures and became the proof of concept behind Poetronica Records.

9albums released
190,000+streams
80+countries

About the Founder

Built by a lifelong techie and award-winning published poet.

Michael Teichberg, founder of Poetronica Records

Michael Teichberg

Founder, Poetronica Records

Published ManuScrita: Poems on Life, Love, & the Nature of Reality, 2023 · Amazon #1 bestseller debut · Literary Titan Silver Book Award winner

Bachelor's degree in Philosophy & Comparative Religion from Tufts University · Computer Science Summer Course, Columbia University

Former venture-backed technology startup executive and entrepreneur

Creator of Dust & Clay and founder of Poetronica Records

Long before there was a label, there was a poet exploring new ways for poetry to be experienced. In ManuScrita, Teichberg experimented with form through a photo-poem and a visual meditation. Those explorations eventually led to Dust & Clay, where original poetry began taking on new dimensions through sound.

Poetronica Records grew from that experiment: a home for poets who want to explore new audiences and new forms while retaining authorship, ownership, and creative intent.

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