Performed at IWPS 2019 in San Diego, CA
Don’t miss this amazing poem from Gigi Bella, performing at IWPS 2019 in San Diego, CA
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Performed in Longmont, CO
Don’t miss this heartfelt poem from Andrea Gibson, performing in Longmont, CO
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“My truth is fire and brimstone running down from the eyes of heaven, so I make umbrellas out of my insecurities just to stand there in the flames.”
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Performed at IWPS 2019 in San Diego, CA
Don’t miss this superb poem from Hakeem Furious, performing at IWPS 2019 in San Diego, CA
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Performed at Exit 36 Poetry Festival
Don’t miss this excellent poem from Wayne Henry, performing at Exit 36 Poetry Festival
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Performed at the Button Studio
“We sang only of the joys, the pastel weekends, & the good things that must live in a place we haven’t been to yet.”
Don’t miss this beautiful poem from Blythe Baird, performing at the Button Studio
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Performed at IWPS 2019 in San Diego, CA
Don’t miss this stunning poem from Arvind Nandakumar, performing at IWPS 2019 in San Diego, CA
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Performed at IWPS 2019 in San Diego, CA
Don’t miss this great poem from Joe Mac, performing at IWPS 2019 in San Diego, CA
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Mwende “FreeQuency” Katwiwa is a Kenyan, Immigrant, Shoga|Queer storyteller, speaker & feeler. The 2018 Women of the World Poetry Slam Champion, a 2017 TEDWomen speaker and ranked 3rd at the 2015 Individual World Poetry Slam, FreeQuency is a highly sought after performer, host, social justice teaching artist and workshop leader. Rooted in various global communities & having spent their life at the intersection of arts, education and activism, they and|or their work in Reproductive Justice, #BlackLivesMatter organizing & activism, LGBTQ+ advocacy and writing have been featured on The Independent, the New York Times, OkayAfrica, Upworthy, TEDx, For Harriet, Teen Vogue, Huffington Post, Everyday Feminism, & other outlets.
FreeQuency is the the founder of A Gate is Leaning: A Black Poetry Series, EMERGENT: A Storytellers Retreat at Foxfire Ranch (2018) and a cofounder of the Afro-Fashion & Culture blog Noirlinians. They are a recipient of the Louisiana’s Worldmakers Grant (2021), The Poets & Writers Project Grants for BIPOC Writers (2020), The Platforms Fund (2018). FreeQuency has also received the Newcomb Alumni Association Young Alumni Award (2020), the Black Out LOUD Excellence in Arts Activism Conference Award (2018), was named one of Gambit’s 40 under 40 (2018), an Aspen Ideas Festival Spotlight Health Scholar (2018), one of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts YBCA 100 Honoree (2018) and has had a dissertation Slam Poetry vs. Racism: Awakening Awareness and Social Change in FreeQuency’s “Dear White People” and “The Gospel of Colonization” (2016) written about their social justice spoken word poetry.
Performed at IWPS 2019 in San Diego, CA
“The answer to any question is not a trump that raises a wall, it’s a trumpet that brings one down.”
Don’t miss this spectacular poem from Junious ‘Jay’ Ward, performing at IWPS 2019 in San Diego, CA
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