Sunday, April 26, 2026 - Radical Reversal

Radical Reversal is a creative justice initiative dedicated to transforming how incarceration is understood and addressed. Through the installation of flexible performance, recording, and learning spaces inside detention centers and correctional facilities, the organization uses poetry, music, and collaborative artmaking to advance racial equity, rehabilitation, and self-determination. Centering the languages, cultures, and creative practices participants already hold, Radical Reversal empowers incarcerated artists to shape narratives, build skills, and imagine futures beyond the carceral state.

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Sunday, April 12, 2026 Mimi Jones, Monique Ngozi Nri and Brandon Sanders

Poetry and Rhythm Matters presents Bassist, Mimi Jones, who will lay down soulful currents while Vocalist & Poet, Monique Ngozi Nri weaves language into living color, as Multi‑Percussionist, Brandon Saunders drives the heartbeat of the night. Together, they shape an evening where sound and story move as one

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Sunday, March 15, 2026 - Tara Betts

Tara Betts is the author of Refuse to Disappear, Break the Habit, Arc & Hue. Betts teaches at DePaul University’s Peace Studies Program and serves as poetry editor for The Langston Hughes Review. Her poems, essays, and short stories have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies.

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Sunday, February 22, 2026 - Dante Micheaux

Dante Micheaux is a poet and translator whose work combines formal rigor with musical insight. He is the author of Circus, winner of the Four Quartets Prize, and Amorous Shepherd. His writing appears in leading international journals, and his honors include the Oscar Wilde Award, the Ambit Poetry Prize, and an Amy Clampitt Residency. Micheaux is a Fellow and Director of Programs at Cave Canem Foundation and recently wrote the libretto for Rolf Hind’s opera Sky In a Small Cage.

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Sunday, January 25, 2026 - L. Lamar Wilson

L. Lamar Wilson moves fluidly across poetry, film, and music, crafting work that braids documentary rigor with lyric urgency. His creative practice insists on witnessing—amplifying Black, Brown, and Indigenous lives in the rural South, especially femmes, not as relics of survival but as architects of joy, resistance, and continuity. From award-winning poetry collections and collaborative literary projects to PBS-aired documentaries and staged musical adaptations, Wilson’s art interrogates faith, history, and the afterlives of colonial violence while honoring communal imagination

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