by urbanwordnyc | Sep 20, 2021 | Uncategorized
ANYRAH SHAVÉH is an award-winning poet and author from the Bronx, New York by way of Flint, Michigan. Anyrah’s debut collection of poetry “water the flowers in your hair” was published in 2020. Anyrah is an alumna of Tennessee State University and received her...
by urbanwordnyc | Sep 20, 2021 | Uncategorized
Karl Iglesias is an actor, director, and teaching artist originally from Milwaukee, WI but has made a home in Brooklyn, NY. As an emcee (Oye) he has shared the stage with Anderson Paak, Mac Miller, Chance The Rapper, Ludacris, Wale and Kendrick Lamar to name a few. A...
by urbanwordnyc | Sep 20, 2021 | Uncategorized
Gabriel Ramirez is a Queer Afro-Latinx poet, activist, and teaching artist. Gabriel has received fellowships from The Conversation Literary Arts Festival, Palm Beach Poetry Festival, The Watering Hole, CantoMundo and was a participant of the Callaloo Writers Workshop....
by urbanwordnyc | Sep 20, 2021 | Uncategorized
ARYAANA KHAN was born and raised in Bangladesh, a country annually submerged underwater as a result of climate change. Shortly after emigrating to New York, she began doing climate advocacy and organizing with various non-profit organizations— and used spoken word...
by urbanwordnyc | Sep 20, 2021 | Uncategorized
DANIELLE BERO was born in Queens to hippie parents, given a dose of Shel Silverstein, Tupac, jazz and classic rock. Bero is a Posse and Indonesian Fulbright scholar, co-founded a school for students in foster care and is currently a high school principal and...
by urbanwordnyc | Sep 20, 2021 | Uncategorized
A graduate of Pratt’s MFA Writing and Activism Program, Jennifer Falú works full time as a social servant in a men’s shelter, as well as a traveling teaching artist and mentor with Urban Word NYC. An International Slam Champion, who made her film debut in the movie,...
