Slam Poetry Showcase: The Invisible Poets Collective

The Invisible Poets Collective formed in October 2025 as a response to pandemic isolation and a desire for access to a radical creative community that centers the experiences of disabled, neurodivergent artists. After months of collaborating to write and memorize new poems, this team of queer, nonbinary, disabled slam poets is ready to take the stage. Showcasing poems about ADHD, top surgery, climate change, Interview with the Vampire, grief, disability justice, and queer joy, the Invisible Poets Collective brings personal storytelling and fiery energy to their live performances, designed to make people feel seen. Come ready to listen, witness, and cheer on the poets!

Hosted by coach and national poetry slam champion Ariana Brown, this event will include a Q&A with the team to follow the performances. 

This event is a fundraiser for the Invisible Poets Collective to travel to Minneapolis, MN in late April to compete at the Midwest Poetry Mash-up poetry slam competition.

We want as many people as possible to come support the poets, so there will be free access available, but we would love it if you wanted to make a donation to the team's travel fund. Suggested donation is £7.50 (approx $10).

Meet the Poets!:

Ariana Brown is a queer Black Mexican American writer and teacher based in Houston, TX. She is the author of We Are Owed. (Grieveland, 2021) and Sana Sana (Game Over Books, 2020) and a national collegiate poetry slam champion. She has been writing, performing, and teaching poetry for fifteen years.

Loma J. Taveras (they/elle/naya), also published as juliany taveras, is a storyteller from Ayití Bohio (Dominican Republic) by way of Lenapehoking (New York City). Their work, which centers the lives & liberation of the Afro/Indigenous & queer/trans diasporas, takes many forms, including playwriting, screenwriting, poetry, photography, graphic design, teaching artistry, & (perhaps most importantly) kinship.

Jazz Bell (they/them) is a poet and artist based in Texas. Jazz has been published in Muzzle Magazine, Nat. Brut, and elsewhere. They were a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net Nominee. Jazz has been writing, performing, leading workshops, and engaging in poetry spaces for over 10 years.

Jordan Wilson-Dalzell (she/they) is a queer disabled poet, visual artist and ECE teacher in the SF Bay Area. Her work on chronic illness and neurodivergence has been published in Kaleidescope, Flare Lit Mag, Art of Autism, Rooted in Rights, Jewish Currents, Out of the Box zine. Her major at Pitzer College was creative writing. 

Maya Williams (ey/they/she) is a religious Black multiracial nonbinary suicide survivor who served as Portland, Maine’s seventh poet laureate for a 2021-2024 term. Find more of eir work at mayawilliamspoet.com