And next up at @wildindigo.poetry are the incredible, grounded, visionary, word magic makers @kirwynsutherland and @yeseniamontillapoet 

These two poets are BELOVED in every room they enter and each have a knack for activating the collective heart while bending time and space to reveal the deeply intimate with individual and collective struggle.

If you go to any Philly poet event, you are highly likely to see Kirwyn, always celebrating poets! Kirwyn Sutherland is a Ciinical Research Professional and poet who makes poems centering the black experience in America. He is a Watering Hole fellow and has attended workshops/residencies at Cave Canem, Winter Tangerine, Poets House, Philadelphia Sculpture Gym, and Pearlstein Art Gallery at Drexel University. Kirwyn’s work has been published in American Poetry Review, Blueshift Journal, APIARY Magazine, FOLDER, The Wanderer, and elsewhere. Kirwyn has served as Editor of Lists/Book Reviewer for WusGood magazine and poetry editor for APIARY Magazine. Kirwyn has a chapbook, Jump Ship, on Thread Makes Blanket Press. And Yesenia? She is a poetic priestess, gentle and fierce.

Yesenia Montilla is an Afro-Latina poet & a daughter of immigrants. She received her MFA from Drew University in Poetry & Poetry in translation. She is a CantoMundo graduate fellow and a 2020 NYFA fellow. Her work has been published in Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, Prairie Schooner, Gulf Coast and in Best of American Poetry 2021 and 2022. Her first collection The Pink Box is published by Willow Books & was longlisted for a PEN Open Book award. Her second collection Muse Found in a Colonized Body published by Four Way Books in 2022 was nominated for an NAACP Image Award. She lives in Harlem, NY… and she’s taking the train to Philly.

We will be outside this May and if the weather cooperates we will have poetry against the backdrop of a gorgeous mural! Buy your tickets (we will have more seats this time!)