The 2019 Festival Poets
- Claudia Rankine
- Emily Skillings
- Terrance Hayes
- Aimee Nezhukumatathil
- Rajiv Mohabir
- Chris Abani & Mai Der Vang
- Elizabeth Acevedo
- Winners of the Fresh Voices Poetry Competition
Watch highlights from 2019
Claudia Rankine & with Emily Skillings
Claudia Rankine is the author of five collections of poetry, including Citizen: An American Lyric and Don’t Let Me Be Lonely; two plays including Provenance of Beauty: A South Bronx Travelogue; numerous video collaborations, and is the editor of several anthologies including The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind. Rankine has won numerous awards for Citizen, including the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Terrance Hayes
Terrance Hayes is the author of American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassins, a finalist for the 2018 National Book Award in Poetry; To Float In The Space Between: Drawings and Essays in Conversation with Etheridge Knight; How to Be Drawn; Lighthead, which won the 2010 National Book Award for poetry; Muscular Music; Hip Logic; and Wind in a Box.
Celebration of Indian Poetry & Culture
Poetry of Our World
Young Poets Day
Elizabeth Acevedo received the 2018 National Book Award for her New York Times bestselling novel, THE POET X. She is also National Poetry Slam Champion, the winner of the Boston-Globe Hornbook Award Prize for Best Children’s Fiction and the author of the chapbook Beastgirl & Other Origin Myths.