Join us at Beacon Hill Books & Cafe on April 11th for the exclusive national launch of Reprise before the official publication date on April 15th.
Featured Poets
IMANI DAVIS is a queer, Black, & neurodivergent writer who grew up splitting time between Brooklyn & Long Island. A recipient of fellowships from Cave Canem, The Mellon Foundation, Lambda Literary, StoryStudio Chicago, and the Stadler Center for Poetry, they’re currently a Ph.D. candidate in American Studies at Harvard, where they also earned their M.A. in English.
Imani’s poetry appears with The Academy of American Poets, Best New Poets, Best of the Net, PBS News Hour’s Brief But Spectacular Series, The Poetry Foundation’s Ours Poetica, The Harvard Gazette, Poet Lore, The Rumpus, Shade Literary Arts, The Offing, Brooklyn Poets, Poetry Daily, Frontier Poetry, Honey Literary, TEDx, ROOKIE Magazine, Adroit Journal, and
elsewhere.
Notably, they have performed at the Teen Vogue Activism Summit, the Apollo Theater, Brave New Voices, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Kelly Writers House, and the Nuyorican Poets Café.
ZENAIDA PETERSON is the author of their first full length book of poetry, Sky Responds to Our Holler. They are a Black southern Quaker mystic and a parent of 5 species of living in a queer coop in Boston. Zenaida is the founding director of Feminine Empowerment Movement Slam (FEMS). They have been on or coached 7 competing teams at national poetry slam competitions; placing in the top 10 each time including Rustbelt’s winning team in 2015. They were accepted into Pinkdoor, Poetry Foundation’s Poetry Incubator and CantoMundo writing retreats. You can find their work at Game Over Books, Pizza Pi Press, Button Poetry, Slam Find and Wusgood Black.