Chrysanthemum Tran

Co-director of Providence Poetry Slam, 2016 Rustbelt Poetry Slam Champion, recipient of a 2023 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Fellowship

Rosebud Ben-Oni

Bisexual Jewish-Mexican poet, author of The Last Great Adventure is You (2027), If This is the Age We End Discovery (2021) & 20 Atomic Sonnets (2020) which won the Alice James Book Prize

Ariana Brown

Queer Black Mexican American poet, author of We Are Owed. (2021) and Sana Sana (2020), national collegiate poetry slam champion, winner of two Academy of American Poets Prizes

Raina J. León

Afro-Puerto Rican/Boricua poet, author of black god mother this body (2022), founding editor of The Acentos Review, co-founder of Wild Indigo Poetry Reading Series, & professor emerita at Saint Mary's College of California/professor at Stonecoast MFA

Cynthia Dewi Oka

Indonesian poet based in Los Angeles, creative facilitator, and narrative strategist with 20 years of cross-sector experience, author of A Tinderbox in Three Acts (2022) & If Fire is Not a Country (2021), recipient of the Tupelo Quarterly Poetry Prize, the Leeway Transformation Award, & the Amy Clampitt Residency

George Abraham

Queer Palestinian-American poet, author of When the Arab Apocalypse Comes to America (2026) & Birthright (2020) which won the Arab American Book Award & Big Other Book Award, executive editor of Mizna

Maya Salameh

Winner of the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize, finalist for the California Book Award

Porsha Olayiwola

Queer Black poet based in Boston, author of i shimmer sometimes, too (2019), current Boston Poet Laureate and previously Individual World Poetry Slam Champion

Jake Skeets

Navajo Nation Poet Laureate, author of Horses (2026) & Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers (2019) which won the National Poetry Series, American Book Award, Kate Tufts Discovery Award, & Whiting Award

Keith S. Wilson

Affrilachian poet, author of Games for Children (2025) & Fieldnotes on Ordinary Love (2019) which was recognized by NYT as the Best Poetry Book of 2019, former NEA, Kenyon, and Stegner Fellow