Even as our hearts are breaking with grief and rage, we see art everywhere in the resistance: music, dance, gorgeous signage – and poetry! Come fill your soul with beauty, truth-telling, and courage at this Black History Month Wild Indigo, featuring two powerful poets, the recent New York State Poet Laureate Patricia Spears Jones and originally-from-Philly Hayes Davis. Sunday, February 15, 5-7 pm Young American Hard Cider & Tasting Room 6350 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia $5 suggested donation – more if you can! You can get TICKETS AT https://bit.ly/25wildindigo26 Poets will have books for sale and Mike Albrecht will open on the guitar. The venue is wheelchair accessible and the event is mask friendly. Bring your poem for the open mic! (It’s best to arrive a few minutes early to sign up – this is a popular mic and spaces are limited!) Co-sponsored by the progressive organization Reclaim Philadelphia and our fabulous venue, Young American Hard Cider. Featured poets: Born and raised in Philadelphia, Hayes Davis is the author of Let Our Eyes Linger, published by Poetry Mutual Press. He served as the 2023-24 Howard County (MD) Poetry and Literature Society (HoCoPoLitSo) Writer in Residence, and won a 2022 Maryland State Arts Council Award. Widely anthologized and published in many journals, his writing has appeared most recently in New England Review, on the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day feature, and in This is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets. He is a member of Cave Canem’s first cohort of fellows, a former Bread Loaf working scholar, and has attended or been awarded writing residencies at the Hermitage, Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. An education administrator and former English teacher, Davis lives in Silver Spring, MD, with his wife, poet Teri Ellen Cross Davis, and their children. Patricia Spears Jones is an African American poet, playwright, anthologist and cultural activist who received the 2017 Jackson Poetry Prize and was appointed The New York State Poet (2023-2025). She is author of The Devil’s Wife Considers, The Beloved Community, and nine other poetry collections, and two plays commissioned and produced by Mabou Mines. She edited THINK: Poems for Aretha Franklin’s Inauguration Day Hat and Ordinary Women: An Anthology of New York City Women Poets. She serves on the board of The Poetry Project. She is founder/organizer of American Poets Congress, a Senior Fellow Emeritus for the Black Earth Institute, and received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Hartwick College.