Carlynn Newhouse is a poet, emcee, performer, and educator. She is a Howard University graduate funded through the Adobe Creativity Scholarship, a National YoungArts Finalist, 3 time Youth Speaks Seattle Grand Slam Champion, and ranked 4th in the 2020 Women of the World Poetry Slam. Her work has been featured on platforms such as Button Poetry, The Seattle Globalist, the Kennedy Center, and more. Carlynn believes poetry is a form of activism and tool for raising awareness in hopes of making the world a safer space.

A spoken word poet who is currently attending St. John University. Chevon Guthrie's work stems from lifelong love of loves, life discourse, blackness, and Hip Hop. His initial taste for performing competition cams as a member of St. John University’s first ever College Union Poetry Slam Team in 2018. He’s since performed, competed, and won in venues such as the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Bric House Brooklyn, Art Amok Cafe, Green Earth Poets Cafe and is the current Trouble Tongues International Grand Slam Champion. Chev has loved words for as long as he can remember and in his adulthood he’s traded lunch tables and the backs of school buses, for stages and studios.

Christina Pierre Louis is a poetic soul whose story is an inspiration to every closet writer seeking to tap into their hidden gifts. Christina found her love for spoken word and the stage through tragedy when she lost a dear friend in a car accident in 2012. After writing a tribute poem to her heaven bound friend, her touching expression and vivid imagery became an instant crowd favorite, and by popular demand her poetry grew a life of its own. Christina's poems range from touching romance and light humor to prideful love of God, self, family, and country. Gracing stages in Boston and beyond, Christina aspires to let her spoken word career flow as high as God's will, while she gathers the pieces to eventually publish her very own collection of works.

D. Ruff is a Roxbury-Bred spoken word poet, author of "Staying on 94: Tales from a Misguided Soul", Creative Director of Boston Pulse Poetry program and has been the co-host of the "if you can Feel It, you can Speak It" Open Mic movement, for the last 11 years. He has been writing and performing for over 20 years, most recently in a Isabella Stewart Gardner production called "Dear Mr. McKeller", and as a guest speaker for BU/Wheelock’s 2021 and 2020 Convocations. Most of his poems stem from personal experiences and his environments and therefore range in topics from black love and heartbreak to inequality and black culture. D. Ruff performs with inspiring passion in hopes that any black body, will also want to find a way to express themselves, find that “tribe” and achieve their greatness, with the intention of leaving the cycle of hurt, pain, and negativity, right where it was showcased.

A writer, performer and poet who was born and raised in the city of Boston. She is a member of the Society of Urban Poetry (S.O.U.P) and was on the 2015 Lizard Lounge National Slam Team. She has performed at such venues as The Lizard Lounge in Cambridge, The Paramount Theatre in Boston, and The Nuyorican Cafe in New York City

LaMar Mitchell was born in Oakland CA to a registered Martian and an expatriate Venusian.

He is the geekiest writer you will ever meet. He likes to say he is a cross between Woody Allen and Malcolm X. A digital poetry chapbook is on the way, titled "Psychedelic Existentialism". More is incubating....

Maya is an 11th grade poet who writes spoken word poetry with a variety of topics such as Mental Health, Social Injustices and Personal Journal Entries. Poetry to her is a way of expressing her thoughts. She often lives her own reality so writing is a technique she uses to express her thoughts. Writing has personally saved her and is something she envisions to flourish and get a bigger platform and network.

Michelle Montolio also known as @sazoneradepalabras is a spoken word artist, inquisitive truth sharer, life speaker, sister, aunt and friend. With roots hailing from the island of Hispaniola and being born in Boston, Michelle seeks to bridge connections cross-culturally everywhere she goes. She realized her gift in writing and the power in words. Since then, she has created visual stories about love, healing, culture, identity, pain and discussing truths about local, national and global history.

Born and raised in Flint, Michigan; She has spent half of her life marooned on Mayonnaise Island.

She is a queer, disabled, half African American, half Afro Latina, second generation immigrant, working class woman. Her earliest memories are of making up stories, and her soul breathes easiest when she writes and reads. Her most cherished dream is to kick down the doors of every ivory tower in academia and broadcast the knowledge within for the whole world to hear. She is a knowledge wielder and a truth speaker, and she's known to lead the chants at a protest or two. And she is definitely NOT a slam poet!