Najya A. Williams (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist who floats along the U.S. East Coast. She graduated from Harvard College and is a 2025 M.D. and Narrative Medicine Program Graduate from the Lewis Katz School of Medicine (Temple University). Najya is devoted to the liberation and healing of all oppressed peoples, and this passion is reflected in many of her projects, service efforts and literary works. Her poetry, essays, and other writings have been accepted and/or published by a number of organizations, including POETRY Magazine, Black Youth Project and Healing Points. Currently, she is a Managing Editor for the Katz Journal of Medicine, Editor for Querencia Press, Poetry Faculty for Pocket MFA, and Board Member for Girls Health Ed, Inc. Her 2024 TEDx Dilworth Park talk, “The Pulsing in Our Spirits and Our Blood” is now available for public viewing via the national conference website. Looking ahead, Najya hopes to continue inspiring full-body wellness across the world, one word and patient visit at a time.

Meg Ford is a queer writer from New Jersey who was voted Most Likely to Leave and Never Come Back. They are a two-time National Poetry Slam semi-finalist with the Boston Poetry Slam Team and received their MFA from Emerson College. Their work has previously appeared in The Rumpus, NAILED, PANK, and the We Will Be Shelter Anthology from Write Bloody. Meg can most often be found hanging out with the cat at your party.

Performed at WOWPS 2023 in Baltimore, MD

“They will call us bitches cause we unmuted our voices and reclaimed our bodies, and isn’t that the irony? Being called a bitch when he’s the one hounding outside of the passenger seat window.”

Don’t miss this poem from Sherrika Mitchell, performing at WOWPS 2023 in Baltimore, MD

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“Love arrives exactly when love is supposed to, and love leaves exactly when love must.”

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Performed at Albany Barn in Albany, NY in 2023.

“our joints creak and sigh like old rocking chairs”

Don’t miss this poem from Sierra DeMulder, performing at Albany Barn in Albany, NY in 2023.

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Performed NorthBeast Regional 2023 Finals

“Little does he know I’ve laid far unholier things on top my tongue than sugary dirt, the most cursed of which being his name.”

Don’t miss this poem from Mica Rich, performing NorthBeast Regional 2023 Finals

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Performed at The Bell House in Brooklyn, NY

“We look up at her and she looks down at us and we have no explanation for this strange scene, only an invitation for her to join.”

Don’t miss this poem from Clint Smith, performing at The Bell House in Brooklyn, NY

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Performed at the Strike Theater in Minneapolis, MN

“You will know his presence like a miracle in reverse.”

Don’t miss this poem from Zach Goldberg, performing at the Strike Theater in Minneapolis, MN

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“Maybe love stays, maybe love can’t. Maybe love shouldn’t.”

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Performed at The Button Poetry Studio in Longmont, CO in 2021.

“We could make any of those specks of light the Big Dipper if we drew the lines right.”

Don’t miss this poem from Andrea Gibson, performing at The Button Poetry Studio in Longmont, CO in 2021.

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