Poet-curators Raina León and Sarah Browning are proud to invite you to the second anniversary celebration of the monthly poetry series, Wild Indigo, to take place Sunday, September 20, 2026, 5-7 pm, at the Germantown Mennonite Church, 21 W. Washington Lane, Philadelphia. We’ll have cake, GF cupcakes, and NA bubbles! Featured poets are former Philadelphia Poet Laureate Airea D. Matthews and three-time International Latino Book Award winner Peggy Robles-Alvarado. Full bios are below. Thanks to a partnership with the Deaf-Hearing Communication Centre and Hands UP Productions, the reading will be ASL interpreted. An open mic will follow the features. Sign up is first come, first served. Open to the public with a suggested donation of $5, Wild Indigo is co-sponsored by Young American Hard Cider & Tasting Room and the progressive organization Reclaim Philadelphia. The venue is wheelchair accessible. Tickets are available in advance at: https://bit.ly/26wildindigo27. The event will be filmed and posted to Wild Indigo’s YouTube page for those unable to attend in person. Airea D. Matthews is a poet, educator, and interdisciplinary thinker whose work explores the intersections of language, economics, race, and social policy. She is the author of Bread and Circus (Scribner, 2023), a memoir-in-verse that received the 2024 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry, the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award, and was a finalist for the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award. Her debut collection, Simulacra (Yale University Press, 2017), won the 111th Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize. She has received numerous honors and fellowships, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship, a Pew Fellowship in the Arts, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, a Margaret Walker “For My People” Award, and fellowships from the James Merrill House, Callaloo, and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. She served as the 2022-2023 Philadelphia Poet Laureate and is Provost and Professor of Creative Writing at Bryn Mawr College. www.aireadee.com Peggy Robles-Alvarado is an award-winning educator, poet, performer, playwright, and producer. She’s a Jerome Hill Foundation Fellow in Literature, a three-time International Latino Book Award winner, a NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow, and a BRIO award recipient. Her latest poetry collection, Burn Me Back (Four Way Books), was selected as the 2025 Booklist Editors’ Choice for Adult Poetry. She’s received fellowships from CantoMundo, Desert Nights, The Frost Place, The Ashbery Home School, Candela Playwrights, and Dramatic Question Theater. Her work appears in The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNext, ¡Manteca!, and online in Poets.org. Peggy’s been featured at Solfest Theater Festival, Dodge Poetry Festival, and HBO Habla Women. She founded Robleswrites Productions Inc., producing events that foster healing and equity for writers of color. To learn more, visit robleswrites.com and robleswritesproductions.com