A fabulous quartet of poets will be featuring at June Wild Indigo Poetry, with special co-host Karen Smith & co-sponsorship by Letras Latinas! We can’t wait to welcome you to poetry on the terrace at Young American Cider, with poets Tamiko Beyer, Luisa Caycedo-Kimura, Lady Sarkazym & Artress Bethany White. Raina will be away and so our beloved Karen Smith with co-host with Sarah. We are lucky to include Luisa Caycedo-Kimura this month, with thanks to the sponsorship of Letras Latinas, a program of the Institute for Latino Studies at Notre Dame University. Sunday, June 21, 5-7 pm Young American Hard Cider 6350 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia $5 suggested donation – reserve your space in advance here: https://bit.ly/25wildindigo26 Poets will have books for sale. The venue is wheelchair accessible and the event is mask friendly. With four features, we may not have time for the open mic. But we’ll have the sign-up and keep our fingers crossed! Co-sponsored by the progressive organization Reclaim Philadelphia, who will be sharing out about next steps after an amazing election season, and by our fabulous venue, Young American Hard Cider. Featured poets: Tamiko Beyer is a poet, writer, and spell-maker. Her books include Last Days and We Come Elemental, and she is a co-editor of Poetry As Spellcasting: Poems, Essays, And Prompts For Manifesting Liberation And Reclaiming Power. She has received awards from Lambda Literary and PEN America, and fellowships and residencies from Kundiman, Hedgebrook, and VONA, among others. She co-directs Brew & Forge, which brings poets and organizers together to alchemize dreaming and build capacity in movements for liberation, justice, and survival. A social justice communications writer and strategist, she spends her days writing truth to power. Tamiko lives with her human, feline, and plant family in Germantown, on the edge of the Wissahickon. Luisa Caycedo-Kimura is a Colombian-born writer and educator, and the author of the full-length poetry collection All Were Limones (The Word Works, 2025), winner of the Hillary Tham Capital Collection competition. Other honors include a John K. Walsh Residency Fellowship at the Anderson Center, an Adrienne Reiner Hochstadt Fellowship at Ragdale, a Robert Pinsky Global Fellowship in Poetry, and a Connecticut Office of the Arts Emerging Recognition Award. A multiple Pushcart Prize nominee and Best of the Net nominee, her work has been widely published in journals, anthologies, and other publications, including Rattle, The Cincinnati Review, Mid-American Review, Shenandoah, Denver Quarterly, RHINO, Four Way Review, On the Seawall, and elsewhere. Tami Muhammad aka Lady Sarkazym is a powerhouse spoken word artist from Philadelphia, with over 20 years of experience delivering truth-laced performances that speak directly to the heart of her life’s experiences. Her poetry rides the roller coaster of emotions, struggles, and triumphs that come with being a Black woman in America which is raw, real, and unapologetically powerful. Along her journey she has published three poetry books and recorded three spoken word albums, each a testament to her dedication to storytelling, empowerment, and the celebration of Black womanhood. Lady Sarkazym is also the co-curator of the Hustler of Culture Show, a collaboration hosted by her husband and fellow spoken word artist, E. Muhammad aka E the Poet-Emcee. Together, they build spaces where art culture and community intersect. Artress Bethany White is a poet, essayist, and literary critic. She received a B.A. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, a master’s degree from New York University, and her Ph.D. from the University of Kentucky. Her third poetry collection, A Black Doe in the Anthropocene: Poems (2025), chronicles her family’s history of enslavement in America using actual plantation archives of the planter family who owned members of her family. She is the recipient of the Trio Award for her poetry collection My Afmerica: Poems (Trio House Press, 2019) and is co-editor of the anthology Wheatley at 250: Black Women Poets Re-imagine the Verse of Phillis Wheatley Peters (Pangyrus, 2023). White has received scholarships and writing residencies from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and others. She is associate professor of English at East Stroudsburg University and resides in New Jersey.