Taylor Mali
Taylor Mali is a four-time National Poetry Slam champion and the author of the poetry collections Bouquet of Red Flags (Write Bloody Books, 2014) and The Last Time as We Are (Write Bloody Books, 2009).
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Photo credit: Andrea Gibson Poetry Andrea Gibson
Read more about >Andrea Gibson was the first winner of the Women of the World Poetry Slam in 2008.
Courtesy of Edwin Torres Edwin Torres
Read more about >Edwin Torres is a bilingual, New York-based poet, and a self-proclaimed “lingualisualist” whose work is “rooted in the languages of sight and sound
Photo credit: James Madison University Amiri Baraka
Read more about >Poet, playwright, and social advocate Amiri Baraka, considered one of the founders of the Black Arts movement, was known for his outspoken stance against police brutality and racial discrimination, his divisive politics, and his leadership in the Pan-Africanist movement.
Photo credit: Ivy Meeropol Jeffrey McDaniel
Read more about >Jeffrey McDaniel is the author of Chapel of Inadvertent Joy (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013) and The Endarkenment (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008), among others.
Photo credit: Brian Berger Emanuel Xavier
Read more about >Emanuel Xavier is the author of seven books of poetry: Love(ly) Child (Rebel Satori Press, 2023); Selected Poems of Emanuel Xavier
Lemon Andersen
Read more about >Andrew “Lemon” Andersen was born in 1975 in Brooklyn, New York.