Smalltown Poets

Charity Blackwell

Diversity Equity and Inclusion Practitioner, Spoken Word Artist & Host/Emcee

Jewel Allison

Jewel Allison was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York from an American mother and a Bajan father.

Yusef Komunyakaa

Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet & Professor at NYU

David Whyte

Poet, Author, Naturalist & Organizational Thinker

aja monet

Award-Winning Performance Poet, Educator, Social Justice Activist, Lyricist & Vocalist

Diane Luby Lane

Founder & Executive Director of Get Lit-Words Ignite; Literacy Advocate, Executive Producer & TEDx Speaker

SAMUEL CURTIS, DIANE LUBY LANE

Rita Dove

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Poet, Former Poet Laureate to the Library of Congress & Henry Hoyns Professor of Creative Writing

Bruce George

Poet / Activist

Jeremy Nobel

Founder & President at The Foundation for Art and Healing; Faculty, Harvard Medical School

Project UnLonely

Preston Perry

Christian Poet, Co-Host of the "With The Perrys" Podcast & Apologist

Remi Kanazi

Poet, Human Rights Activist & Author of "Poetic Injustice: Writings on Resistance & Palestine"

P. Gabrielle Foreman

Award-Winning Professor, MacArthur "Genius Grant" Award Winner, Leader in the field of Black Digital & Public History

Rudy Francisco

Poet; Spoken Word Artist

Nikki Giovanni

Poet, Educator & Best-Selling Author

‘Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project’ Review: An Afrofuturist Space Odyssey

Monica Daye

Author, Poet and Activist on Prevention & Awareness of Domestic and Sexual Abuse

Niro Sivanathan

Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour

Felipe Luciano

Poet, Community Activist, Journalist, Media Personality & Politician

Bonafide Rojas

Bonafide Rojas is the author of “Renovatio, When The City Sleeps & Pelo Bueno” & is the founder of Grand Concourse Press.

Roxy Azari

Spoken Word Artist, Slam Poet & Social Justice Activist