Cheryl Boyce-Taylor is a poet and workshop facilitator. A recipient of the 2015 Barnes and Noble Writers For Writers Award, she is the founder and curator of Calypso Muse and the Glitter Pomegranate Performance Series.Cheryl earned her MFA in Poetry from Stonecoast: The University of Southern Maine. She is the author of three collections of poetry: Raw Air, Night When Moon Follows, and Convincing the Body.

Ras Moshe Burnett is a Brooklyn-born saxophonist/composer/educator, hailing from a musical family. Ras commenced performing with his own units in 1987 and played in roots reggae bands parallel with his own jazz ensembles. He is the founder of the "Music Now" series, a monthly presentation of new music and free jazz that began in 1999 at The Brecht Forum and is currently continuing at Scholes Street Studio and The Brooklyn Commons.

Larry Roland, poet, bassist, composer, educator, and music producer uses Spoken Word and improvisational music to educate the listener. His work reflects the joy, sorrow, and day-to-day circumstances of the times in which we live.

Rachel Eliza Griffiths is a poet, visual artist, and novelist. Her hybrid collection of poetry and photography, Seeing the Body (W.W. Norton), was published in 2020.

JP Howard is an educator, literary activist, curator and community builder. Her debut poetry collection, SAY/MIRROR (The Operating System), was a Lambda Literary finalist. She is also the author of bury your love poems here (Belladonna*) and co-editor of Sinister Wisdom Journal Black Lesbians--We Are the Revolution!

Kathy Engel is a poet who has worked for nearly forty years at the nexus between social justice movements and art/imagination. Founder of the women’s human rights group, MADRE, she has co-founded numerous other groups and projects, including Riptide Communications, Poets for Ayiti and the Hayground School.

Anton Nimblett, a Trinidadian who lives and writes in Brooklyn, is the author of the short story collections, Sections of an Orange and Now/After.

My bones have absorbed these sounds, move to these sounds, and rest in these sounds."

E.J. Antonio received fellowships in Poetry from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Hurston/Wright Foundation, and the Cave Canem Foundation.

FAY VICTOR is an improvising vocalist, composer, lyricist and educator riding all the chasms and seams of musics that are improvisational and conversational in nature.

Hear master percussionist and composer, Michael Wimberly, on acoustic piano, marimba, balafon, and djembe for this performance!

Born in New York City in 1961, Anton has performed with luminaries like Ray Charles, Rosemary Clooney, Rita Moreno, and Carol Channing, and an A-list of jazz artists including Clifford Jordan, Mel Lewis, Al Foster, Terrel Stafford, Bill Stewart, and Rufus Reid.

Join us online on as we celebrate the life of founding Board member, Darryl Alladice.

One Breath Rising and 440 Gallery are pleased to present actor, comedian, poet and playwright Julia Ogilvie in a live-stream reading direct from Honolulu, Hawaii. her home in Honolulu, Ogilvie’s words will be a topical reflection on the emotions of the moment.

Darryl Alladice is a performance poet/storyteller who grew up in Harlem and Brooklyn, New York. Darryl’s performances are informed by his training as an actor and storyteller. He will enthrall and charm you - he brings his poetry alive when he reads.

Breena Clarke's debut novel, River, Cross My Heart, was an October 1999 Oprah Book Club selection. Ms. Clarke, a native of Washington, D.C., is the recipient of the 1999 award for fiction by the New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association and the Alex Award, given by the Young Adult Library Services Association.

YESENIA MONTILLA is an Afro-Latina poet & a daughter of immigrants. Her poetry has appeared in the Chapbook For the Crowns of Your Head, as well as the literary journals The Gulf Coast, Prairie Schooner, Gulf Coast, Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day and others.

Janet Restino is a “streams of consciousness” multimedia artist/writer, formally trained as a sculptor, currently recording her poems and songs with guitarists.

Trumpeter, composer, arranger, author … Eddie Allen is one of the  more versatile musicians on the New York scene. He’s called upon to play everything from jazz (big band as well as small ensembles) to R&B/Pop to latin to symphonic to Broadway, and everything in between.

After multi-instrumentalist, Dr. Makanda Ken McIntyre, passed away unexpectedly in 2001, it was discovered that, in addition to the approximately 75 original compositions that appear on his albums, he had written around 350 more that had not been recorded or, in most cases, performed in public.