All My Ancestors, Afro-Latinx: Creating from the Archive of Memory, Story, and Document
Allegheny Room, Festival

Raina J. León
Darrel Alejandro Holnes
Malcolm Friend
Roberto Carlos Garcia

A Decade of Poetic Experiment: 2014 to 2024
Grand Ballroom, Festival

Lauri Scheyer
Aldon Lynn Nielsen
C.S. Giscombe
Meta DuEwa Jones
Douglas Kearney
Mark McMorris
Mendi Lewis Obadike

Nature and Politics in Contemporary Black Pastoral Poetry: a Creative and Critical Conversation
Room 3313, Rose Library

Maya Marshall
Ariana Benson
Iain Haley Pollock
Amber Flora Thomas

blk folks, it’s this thing callt love
Room 3311, Rose Library

Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie
Enzo Surin Silon
Shauna Morgan

The Making of Wheatley at 250: Black Women Poets Re-Imagine the Verse of Phillis Wheatley Peters
5th Floor Seminar Room, Rose Library

Danielle Legros Georges
Artress Bethany White
Tara Betts
Shara McCallum
Tsitsi Jaji

The African Poetry Book Fund Celebrates Ten Years of Publication: Canonizing and Promoting African Poetry and Poetics
Highlands Room, Festival

Marguerite L Harrold
Chris Albani
Lorna Dawes
Patricia Jabbeh Wesley

The New Archivists: Resisting the Silence by Adding to the Archive
Multipurpose Room, Atlantic Union Bank Center

Chet’la Sebree
Damaris B. Hill
Courtney Faye Taylor
Kiki Petrosino

Writing Back, Writing Forward: Black Poets and the Practice of (Re)Writing Form
Conference Room 7, Festival

Carmin Wong
Tiffany R. Pennamon
Angel C. Dye

Black Woman’s Avant Gardé
3rd Floor Flex Space, Rose Library

Nikia Chaney
Anastacia Renée
Tameka Cage-Connely
Cynthia Manick
Natalie Graham

The Earth is a Living Thing: Ecopoetics of Black Aliveness
3rd Floor Flex Space, Rose Library

Ariana Benson
Ashia Ajani
Bernard Ferguson
Kenia Hale

Black Feminism in Art Song, Poetry, and Literature
Highlands Room, Festival

Shana Oshiro

Black in Translation
Room 3311, Rose Library

Danielle Legros Georges
Aaron Coleman
Esther Kondo Heller
Scott Challener

Cultivating Poetic Abundance at HBCUs: Writing Communities at Spelman and in the AUC
Room 3313, Rose Library

Sharan Strange
Sequoia Maner
Sarah RudeWalker
Tangela Mitchell
Patience Stuckey
AT Rhodes

Home and Away: Black Poets Reflect on Global Living and Travel
Allegheny Room, Festival

Chanda Feldman
Dante Micheaux
Myronn Hardy
Charif Shannahan

Poetry Prize Winner and Honorable Mention with Roger Reeves
Grand Ballroom, Festival

Roger Reeves
Michelle Alexander
RaeJeana Brooks

Black Poets of the American West: Voices from Beyond the (Continental) Divide
Multipurpose Room, Atlantic Union Bank Center

Camille Dungy
Sean Hill
Danusha Laméris
Rio Cortez

One Window’s Light: A Chorus of Haiku
5th Floor Seminar Room, Rose Library

L. Teresa Church
Gideon Young
Sheila Smith McKoy
Crystal Simone Smith
Lenard Moore

Song of a Soul Sistah: A Film Screening and Panel Discussion
Conference Room 7, Festival

Rahnda Rize
Kimmika Williams-WItherspoon
Pat McLean-Smith
Pheralyn Dove

All performances will be held in Festival Drum

12:30-1:15pm Rooted in Love-Based Praxis, Reaching Towards Cosmic World-Making with PoetTree
Marissa Désir, Nia Bethel-Brescia, Shyasia Nashele Arnold, Alma Nájera

1:20-1:35pm Where Black Girls Go
Ajanae Dawkins

1:40-1:55pm Tony Medina

2-2:50pm She, My Nation
Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa

3-3:15pm Unbraiding Seeds of Home
Denise Chapman

3:15-3:30pm Friends with Benefits and Other Tough Loves
Jae Nichelle

3:40-4:40pm We Heard It Through the Mother Vine: A Sonic Cartography for AfroCarolina
Michelle Lanier & Tracy Adams

Non-Human Worlds: The Black Avant Garde as Poetic Play
5th Floor Seminar Room, Rose Library

Constance Collier-Mercado
Ashia Ajani
Vincente Perez

Finding a Black South Aesthetic in the Ancestry of Dirt
Allegheny Room, Festival

Tyree Daye
Ra Malika Imhotep
Marlanda Dekine
Destiny Hemphill

The New Black Arts Movement
Room 3311, Rose Library

Heather Buchanan
Keisha-Gaye Anderson
Brian Gilmore

Utilizing Poetics to Transverse the Atlantic Divide
Conference Room 7, Festival

Quaye Kojo aka Sir Black
Karla Brundage
Shawna Sherman

Southern Poetry Now
Highlands Room, Festival

Mona Lisa Saloy
Skye Jackson
Karisma Price
Jericho Brown

Dear Yusef: Celebrating the Life and Work of Poet and Professor Yusef Komunyakaa
Grand Ballroom, Festival

Lynne Thompson
Nicole Sealey
Joel Dias-Porter
Linda Susan Jackson
Dante Micheaux

Masters of Our Own Destiny: Black Poets and Professors on Institution Building and the Black MFA Experience
Highlands Room, Festival

Iman Byfield
April Gibson
Kelly Norman Ellis

Poetry as Activism in Delaware: Poetic, Archival, and Activist Voices in Community
Room 3313, Rose Library

Traci Evadne Currie
Yalonda JD Green
Britney Henry
Jacinta Saffold

A Time to Mourn: Black Elegies and Remembering
Allegheny Room, Festival

Kaylon Cannon
Sequoia Maner
JP Howard

Theorizing Otherwise: AfroFuturism, AfroPessimism, AfroSurrealism, AfroProphecy
Room 3313, Rose Library

Jon Woodson
Melane Ferdinand-King
Ajanae Dawkins
Zorina Exie Frey

Black Lives, Black Archivers
Room 3311, Rose Library

Rasaq Malik Gbolahan
Erica Cavanagh
Tyechia Thompson
keondra bills freemyn

Intimate Inheritance and Uses of Poetry
Highlands Room, Festival

Courtney Thorsson
Kevin Quashie
Anthony Reed
Lara Vrana
Matt Sandler

Walk With Me: Freedom Fighter’s Homage
Grand Ballroom, Festival

Latorial Faison
Hermine Pinson
Leah Glenn

Understudied and Misread: The Ongoing Work of De-Colonizing Literary Criticism
5th Floor Seminar Room, Rose Library

Abdul Ali
Megan Madramootoo
Traci Williams

Black Poetry | Public Spheres: Explorations and Intersections
Multipurpose Room, Atlantic Union Bank Center

Almas Khan
Ryan J. Petteway
Sarah Jenkins

Poetic Explorations of Afro-Diasporic Youth Un/Belonging in Australia
Conference Room 7, Festival

Denise Chapman
Melanie Baak
Manal Younus

Magnitude & Bond: A Preview of a Field Study on Black Literary Organizations
Grand Ballroom, Festival

Lisa Willis
Duriel E. Harris
Shelagh Patterson
Candace Wiley
Nichelle Hayes

Is Hope a Madness? An Interactive Panel Conjuring Aliveness in Times of Catastrophe
Room 3313, Rose Library

Umniya Najaer
Ra Malika Imhotep
Ariel Ward

Poetics & Politics of the Unspoken: Mental Health, Trauma, & Resilience
Multipurpose Room, Atlantic Union Bank Center

Robin Michel Caudell
Teri Elam
Yona Harvey
Amber Flora Thomas

Homegoing, Home Gone: On Black Diaspora, Geographies, and Poetic Liminality
Conference Room 7, Festival

Kira Tucker
Michelle Oppong
Tramaine Suubi

Controlled Burn: Making Poems, Shaping Books
Highlands Room, Festival

Remica Bingham-Risher
Tim Seibles
Tyehimba Jess
Teri Ellen Cross Davis

A Rainbow of Shadows: Black Autists Have Landed
5th Floor Seminar Room, Rose Library

Joel Dias-Porter
Leslie McIntosh
Said Shaiye

Saving Anew: Reinterpreting Black Women’s Poetry
Allegheny Room, Festival

Jessica Brofsky
Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie
Rhony Bhopla
Brittany Rogers
Brenda Geene

Black Between the Lines
Room 3311, Rose Library

El Williams III
Nick Makoha
Christian Campbell

White Pages: Black Experiments
3rd Floor Flex Space, Rose Library

Ryan Sharp 
Lizzy LeRud and Jennifer Ryan-Bryant
Brittany Marshall 
Hannah Loeb

All performances will be held in Festival Drum

8:15-9:05am Wilderness Series: Reconfiguring God
Dzidzor Azaglo

9:15-9:30am Get in with the FreeQuency
“Freequency” Katwiwa

9:35-9:50am Forest of Black Tenderness
Folajimi Kalejaiye

9:55-10:10am Choreopoetics: The Pedagogy of Black Apologetics
Ed Mabrey

10:15-11am Hella Black
Ashley Rose

12:30-12:50pm The Summoning of Black Joy
Khadijah Z. Ali-Coleman

1-1:30pm Praise This Complicated Black Queer Self!
JP Howard

1:40-2:25pm Everywhere Alien
Brad Walrond, jessica Care moore, Regina Brooks

2:30-2:45pm Years of Blood
Adedayo Agarau

2:55-3:10pm This God is Female
Ber Anena

In Praise of Tribal/Indigenous Languages: Contemporary African Poets on Writing and Translating Poetry
Highlands Room, Festival

Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto
Rasaq Malik Gbolahan
Ber Anena
O-Jeremiah Agbaakin

The Umbra Galaxy
Room 3311, Rose Library

Tonya M. Foster
David Grundy
Jean-Phillipe Marcoux

Sister Scribes in The Sanctuary: Collard Greens, Griot, Platanos, Tamales
5th Floor Seminar Room, Rose Library

Badiana Badio
Debra Powell-Wright
Maricel Goris
Veronica Puente

(sub)Verses Collective Voices and Shared Poetics Panel
3rd Floor Flex Space, Rose Library

Sheila Carter-Jones
Sierra Leone
Gwendolyn A. Mitchell
janera solomon

Poetics of Black Ecology
Conference Room 7, Festival

Tyler Isaiah Campbell
Rachel Clifford
Carlyn Ferrari

Growing a New Garden: Furious Flowering in Classrooms
Grand Ballroom, Festival

Keisha-Gaye Anderson
Anastacia-Renée
allia abdullah-matta
Hayes Davis
Carmin Wong
Teri Ellen Cross Davis

The Page vs. The Stage: A Dialogue Exploring Spoken Word, Poetry Slam, and the Racialization of Poetics in Academia
Multipurpose Room, Atlantic Union Bank Center

Lyrical Faith
Kwyn Townsend Riley
Ashley Rose
Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa

A Poignant Line: Black Queer Poets on Love
Allegheny Room, Festival

Aurielle Marie
Courtney Faye Taylor
E. Hughes
W.J. Lofton

The Necessity of Want
Room 3313, Rose Library

Brittany Rogers
m. mick powell
Jae Nichelle
Taylor Byas

Confronting the Dead: Black Trans Poets and the Art of Accessing and Immortalizing Past Selves
Room 3313, Rose Library

Amari Amai
Avery Robinson
Maya Williams
Cai Rodrigues Sherley

Black Buffalo Woman: The Poetry and Poetics of Lucille Clifton
Allegheny Room, Festival

Kazim Ali
Sumita Chakraborty
William Fogarty
Marina Magloire

The Sisterhood: Documenting Histories of Black Women’s Creative Networks
Highlands Room, Festival

Opal Moore
Trudier Harris
Alexandria Russell
Meta DuEwa Jones
DaMaris Hill
Liseli Fitzpatrick

The Creativity of the Black Woman: From Phillis Wheatley to Margaret Walker to Today
5th Floor Seminar Room, Rose Library

Maryemma Graham
Ebony Lumumba
Airea D. Matthews
Robert Luckett

Editing African American Poetry Books
Multipurpose Room, Atlantic Union Bank Center

Joanne M. Braxton
David Grundy
Aldon Lynn Nielsen
Lauri Scheyer
A. B. Spellman
Laura Vrana

Readers, Publishers, and Paratexts: Mid-Twentieth Century Black Poetry and the World Beyond the Page
3rd Floor Flex Space, Rose Library

Theri Pickens
Mollie Godfrey
Kinohi Nishikawa
Ayesha Hardison

Black Joy in Song
Grand Ballroom, Festival

Sonya G. Baker
Albert Lee

Black Poetry in Community and Praxis
Conference Room 7, Festival

Kadija George Sesay and Dorothea Smartt
Adrienne D. Oliver
Lyrical Faith

A Vital History: The Cambridge Anthology Roundtable
Grand Ballroom, Festival

Keith D. Leonard
McKinley Melton
Meta DuEwa Jones
Marta Webanowska
Annette Debo
Carlyn Ferrari
Matt Sandler
Emily Ruth Rutter

Recovering Black Girl Poets
Room 3311, Rose Library

Katharine Capshaw
Rachel Conrad
LaKisha Michelle Simmons

Symbolizing Strategies: Encoding Blackness in Diasporic Black Poetry
Allegheny Room, Festival

isaiah a. hines
Jeanine M. Pitas
Rachel Ansong

A Pursuit of Fugitive Choreographies: Poetics that Trouble the Line
Multipurpose Room, Atlantic Union Bank Center

Aurielle Marie
Danez Smith
Douglas Kearny
Joy Priest

Poetry Foundation “VS” Podcast Live with Yona Harvey and Mahogany Browne
5th Floor Seminar Room, Rose Library

In Focus: Close Reading Black Poets
Room 3313, Rose Library

Bartosz Wójcik
Renee M. Kingan
Shelagh Patterson

Black History in Poetry and the Visual Archive
3rd Floor Flex Space, Rose Library

Alison C. Rollins
Ashley E. Wynter
Tyree Daye
Niki Herd

Embodied Archives: Exploring the Epistemologies of Black Underground Poetic and Cultural Movements
Conference Room 7, Festival

Brad Waldrond
jessica Care moore
Regina Brooks

I Can Move Through the World and Raise a Song: Studying the African American Persona Poem in the 21st Century
Highlands Room, Festival

Herman Beavers
Ryan Sharp
Patricia Smith

All performances will be held in Festival Drum

11-11:20am A Mother’s Howl
Devorah Major

11:30am-12:15pm Blackness and Blues
Jasmine Parks

12:30-1pm Sound Poems but Softly
Nikia Chaney

1:05-1:45pm Into the Black Girl Beyond
Leconté Dill, Suban Nur Cooley, Chamara Kwakye

1:50-2:05pm Unveiling Silences in Afro-French Caribbean Queer Poetics
Roseline Jeanne Lucie Armange

2:15-3:05pm Big Black Good Man
John Gavin White

3:15-4:05pm The Digital Underground Railroad Presents: Do You Know What We Do in the Dark?
Sherina Rodriquez Sharpe & Chace Morris