Soul Sister Revue is a quarterly reading series for established and emerging poets who write in the narrative tradition of storytelling.

Ricardo Hernandez is the son of Mexican immigrants. A recipient of fellowships from Lambda Literary and Poets House, his work has appeared in Assaracus, The Cortland Review, and Newtown Literary. Currently, he’s an MFA candidate at Rutgers-Newark

Denice Frohman is a poet, performer, and educator from New York City. She is a CantoMundo Fellow, former Women of the World Poetry Slam Champion and Leeway Transformation Award recipient. Her work is forthcoming in Winter Tangerine, Nepantla: An Anthology for Queer Poets of Color (Nightboat Books), Women of Resistance: Poems for a New Feminism (OR Books), and has garnered over 7.5 million views online. She has featured at over 200 colleges; hundreds of high schools, non-profits, and cultural arts spaces; and at The White House in 2016. She has a Master’s in Education and currently tours the country.

Cheryl Boyce-Taylor is a poet and workshop facilitator. The recipient of the 2015 Barnes and Noble Writers For Writers Award, she is the founder and curator of Calypso Muse and the Glitter Pomegranate Performance Series. Cheryl earned an MFA in Poetry from Stonecoast: The University of Southern Maine, and an MSW from Fordham University. She is the author of four collections of poetry: Raw Air, Night When Moon Follows, Convincing the Body and Arrival. A poetry judge for The New York Foundation for the Arts, and The Astraea Lesbian Foundation, she has facilitated poetry workshops for Cave Canem, Poets & Writers, Poets House, and The Caribbean Literary and Cultural Center. Her poetry has been commissioned by Jacob’s Pillow, The Joyce Theater, and the National Endowment for the Arts for Ronald K. Brown: Evidence, A Dance Company. A VONA fellow, her work has been published in Callaloo, Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Pluck!, Poetry, Adrienne, and Prairie Schooner.

Tishon Woolcock is poet and designer (of which there are a surprising many). His poems have been published in various literary journals, and he’s read his work at venues including The Blue Note, Highline Ballroom, The Nuyorican Poets Cafe, and more. Tishon founded Well&Often Press, on which his first book, The Letter All Your Friends Have Written You, written collaboratively with the poet Caits Meissner, was published in 2011. In 2014, Tishon was named a Poets House Emerging Poets Fellow and he’s since been working on a book-length poem about men.

Jenny Xie is the author of Eye Level (Graywolf Press, 2018), selected by Juan Felipe Herrera as the winner of the 2017 Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets, and Nowhere to Arrive (Northwestern University Press, 2017), recipient of the 2016 Drinking Gourd Prize. Her poems appear in Poetry, the American Poetry Review, the New Republic, Tin House, and elsewhere. She has received fellowships and support from Kundiman, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Elizabeth George Foundation, and Poets & Writers.

The Host – Ed Toney – Poet, writer and chemist, born in Queens NY, resides in Brooklyn. He has featured and read at numerous poetry venues including McNally Jackson bookstore, Barnes and Noble Bookstore, rallies for Mumia, Eric Garner, a unique benefit for Michael Brown that included aerialist performers, “Black Lives Matter” Black poets speak out forums,  and elsewhere. Ed’s work has appeared in African Voices 20^th Anniversary magazine, the chapbook; Of Fire of Iron, published by The Hot Poets collective,  a featured essay in Young’s Men Perspective magazine, Mosaic, Blue Lyra Review, and is very near, full completion on his first poetry manuscript entitled, “Nicks in the Tongue”.