Anthony McPherson
Spoken word artist, Teaching artist, and social justice luminary.
Anthony McPherson is an international slam champion, spoken word artist, teaching artist, and social justice luminary. Watch his viral hit Black Lives Matter HERE.
Anthony is based in Harlem, NYC and Johannesburg, South Africa.
Zoe Branch
Writer and artist
Zoe Branch is a writer and artist living in Brooklyn. Previously a journalist, she has spent the last four years building a life as a poet—first via her own business, FLORA & PHRASE, and now too as a performer with Ars Poetica. She also serves as the company’s Director of Sales.
Tania Asnes
Poet and Actress
Tania Asnes (aka TAz) is a poet and actress educated at Barnard College and William Esper Studio. She is known for her remarkable class, wit, vocabulary and love for her two black cats.
Tania is based in Boston and available to travel nationwide.
Jayshawn Lee
Interdisciplinary scholar-artist and award-winning writer.
Jayshawn is an interdisciplinary scholar-artist and award-winning writer based in New York City. From spoken word to page, he uses poetry as a communal tool for people to think across ideas of social justice and the world we live in.
Iman Khondker
Poet, chef, visual artist, and generally prolific creative-type.
Iman Khondker is a Bangladeshi-American poet, chef, visual artist, and generally prolific creative-type. If there’s something to be made, she wants to make it from scratch, by hand, from the ground up. Her poetry is often about putting form to very specific feelings … to emotions that seem abstract until you read the words on the page. Recently relocated from a decade in Brooklyn to Boston.
Catherine Brown
Calligrapher and free-hand engraver.
Cat is a calligrapher and free-hand engraver from Southern California. Her hobby quickly turned into a passion project and business when she was fundraising for a volunteer trip to partner with local autism centers around the world. Cat specializes in elevating your ideas by combining luxury and art through calligraphy and engraving.
Annelih Hamilton
Storyteller, actor, poet.
Annelih Hamilton (she/her) is a storyteller, actor, poet, and lifelong learner based on the lands of the Coast Salish Indigenous peoples (colonially known as greater Seattle-Tacoma, WA). Proud Filipina/x-American. Spellbound by words and brings enthusiasm and spunky energy to her work. Let’s hang @JamWithA.Ham on Instagram!
