Diana Cervera, is a transborder Chicana artist based in Tijuana/San Diego. Diana’s work navigates the intersections of art and social justice; she is a filmmaker, storyteller, poet and educator. Rooted in cross cultural collaboration, her work seeks to create counter narrative and subvert systems of oppression and exclusion, while creating dialogue and exchange across lines of difference.
K Love The Poet is the poetic heart of her city, Chicago. Affectionately known as the Mother of the Southside, her poetry speaks to the spirit of the matters, that matter most. From social justice to self-love, K Love is a necessary brand of healing for such a time as this.
Originally from San Francisco, Tongo Eisen-Martin is a poet, movement worker, and educator. His latest curriculum on extrajudicial killing of Black people, We Charge Genocide Again, has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country. His book titled, "Someone's Dead Already" was nominated for a California Book Award. His latest book "Heaven Is All Goodbyes" was published by the City Lights Pocket Poets series, was shortlisted for the Griffins Poetry Prize, and won a California Book Award and an American Book Award. His forthcoming book “Blood On The Fog” is being released this fall in the City Lights Pocket Poets series. He is San Francisco’s eighth poet laureate.
A Scribe Called Quess? aka Michael “Quess?” Moore is a poet, educator, actor, playwright, activist and organizer. A 2-time national poetry slam champion (by way of Team Slam New Orleans), his work has been published or featured by Nike, Congo TV, Balcony TV, Button Poetry, Write About Now Poetry, Spotify, Mic, Ford Foundation, Redbull and other platforms and earned him honors from the City of New Orleans, where he is based. He has shared stages with some of the greatest poets of his generation and previous ones, including his first teacher of the craft, Abiodun Oyewole of The Last Poets.
Misty Marie Rae Skaggs is a hillbilly radical, barefooted poet, and backwoods activist born and raised and still surviving in Eastern Kentucky. Her work focuses on finding the beauty and strength in everyday life in a region long plagued by outside exploitation and generational poverty. Skaggs’ roots run deep and show through in her verse.
Marvin K. White, MDiv, is currently the Full-Time Minister of Celebration at the historic Glide Memorial Church in San Francisco, CA. His poetry has been adapted for the stage at San Francisco’s Theater Rhinoceros and he has performed his work himself at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts as a part of their 2014 BAN7 Festival. As a former member of the critically acclaimed theater troupe The Pomo Afro Homos’ he has performed nationally and internationally.
