Live Poetry Reading: Savannah Cooper-Ramsey, Summer J. Hart, and Osimiri Sprowal

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Savannah Cooper-Ramsey holds a BA in History from Bard College, an MA in Comparative Literature from Dartmouth College and a PhD in Italian from Columbia University. She is the author of the artist’s book Not Fit for Print, winner of BOMB Magazine’s 2018 Biennial Poetry Prize and finalist for the 2018 Sandy Crimmins National Poetry Award, her poems can be found in publications like BOMB, Dream Pop Journal, Bedfellows, and Whirlwind Magazine. Savannah works for the Nick Virgilio Haiku Association in Camden, NJ, and teaches Creative Writing at UArts and with the Arts Alliance of Philadelphia’s Writers’ Workshop.

Summer J. Hart is an interdisciplinary artist from Maine, living in the Hudson Valley, New York. Her written and visual artworks are influenced by folklore, superstition, divination, and forgotten territories reclaimed by nature. She is the author of Boomhouse and Augury of Ash. Her poetry can be found in Waxwing, The Massachusetts Review, Northern New England Review, Denver Quarterly, and elsewhere. Summer is a member of the Listuguj Mi’gmaq First Nation.

Osimiri Sprowal (they/them) is an Afro-Indigenous, Trans, Queercrip poet, homeless rights activist, and sibling. Their poetry has been featured at Bowery Poetry, The University of Wisconsin-Madison, Gettysburg University, The University of Arizona-Tuscon, among other locations. They were the 2015 Philly Youth Grand Slam Champion, 2018 College Union Poetry Slam Invitational (CUPSI) Semi-Finalist, where they received the Best Love Poem Award. They were a 2018 Till Arts Emerging Artist Fellow, 2019 Feminine Empowerment Slam Champion, and a 2020 CoLab Arts Fellow. They were a winner of the 2019 Shockwire Micro Chapbook Contest for their book Gemini: Duality of Self, a chapbook chronicling their experiences as a genderfluid person. They were the founder and President of deadname.arts, Philly’s only gender-expansive collective in its time. Most recently, they recieved the Marshall Scholarship, and are preparing to relocate to the U.K to write Black Queer plays.