The Speakeasy Project represents multidisciplinary artists for lectures, workshops, readings, and other speaking and teaching engagements
Luther Hughes
Author of A Shiver in the Leaves (BOA Editions, 2022) and Touched (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2018)
Recipient of the 2020 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Poetry Fellowship
Rosebud Ben-Oni
Author of If This is the Age We End Discovery (Alice James Books, 2021) and turn around, BRXGHT XYXS (GFB, 2019)
Winner of the 2019 Alice James Book Award
George Abraham
Author of Birthright (Button Poetry, 2020)
Affiliated faculty at Emerson College and board member for the Radius of Arab American Writers (RAWI)
Jake Skeets
Author of Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers (Milkweed Editions, 2019)
Winner of the National Poetry Series, American Book Award, and Kate Tufts Discovery Award.
Chrysanthemum
Recipient of the 2023 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Poetry Fellowship
2016 Rustbelt Poetry Slam Champion and Co-Director of the Providence Poetry Slam
Shin Yu Pai
Author of No Neutral (Empty Bowl, 2023)
Award-winning poet & essayist
Host and creator of Ten Thousand Things for KUOW / NPR
Dr. Raina J. León
Author of Areyto to Atabey: Essays on the Mother(ing) Self (Alley Cat Books, 2019)
Full Professor of English Education at Saint Mary’s College of California
Cynthia Dewi Oka
Author of A Tinderbox in Three Acts (BOA Editions, 2022)
Faculty at the Writers' Program at UCLA Extension and Recipient of the 2021-2022 Amy Clampitt Residency
Keith S. Wilson
Author of Fieldnotes on Ordinary Love (Copper Canyon Press, 2019)
2019 National Endowment for the Arts Recipient
Darrel Alejandro Holnes
Author of Stemotherland (Northwestern University Press, 2021)
2019 National Endowment of the Arts Recipient and winner of the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize
Porsha Olayiwola
Author of i shimmer sometimes, too (Button Poetry)
Individual World Poetry Slam Champion and 2022 Boston Poet Laureate
Ariana Brown
Author of We Are Owed. (Grieveland, 2021) and Sana Sana (Game Over Books, 2020)
2019 National Association of Latino Arts and Culture Grant Recipient
If interested in any of our artists, please contact us at jennifer@thespeakeasyproject.net
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