Aris Kian utilizes poetry as performance and a tool for community organizing, abolition, and liberation.

Maryhilda Obasiota Ibe negotiates the place of self in history through language shaped by emotional forces.
Andres Cordoba reclaims language through family history, community, and a belief in poetry as an act of living.
DeeSoul Carson writes poetry at the intersection of witness and action, exploring joy, grief, and absurdity through bold rhetorical experimentation.
Poetry as devotion and survival—Jada Renée Allen writes toward liberation, memory, and imagined futures beyond violence.