In Volume Five, Chapter Fourteen, we sit down with Baltimore-based artist Dream—an educator, poet, writer, photographer, and meditation guide. In our conversation, Dream discusses her creative journey, releasing her spoken word pieces on streaming platforms, and talks about the influence that her family’s creativity has had on her. We dive into poetry, writing, the benefits of meditation, and the beauty of helping others. A conversation about art, presence, intentionality, and more.

Contact Dream:
Instagram: @dreamreallovec Threads: @dreamreallovec

Recorded Spoken Word Performances Featured Include:

Reagan Myers – Depression Is Funny Like That
Instagram: @reagancmyers

Imani Cezanne – Flowers
Instagram: @imanicezanne

Marshall Davis Jones – Touchscreen
Instagram: @marshalldavisjones
Website: tonalinfluence.com

Elizabeth Acevedo – A Love Letter To My Beloved
Instagram: @acevedowrites Website: acevedowrites.com

King Yaw – Ancestral Ghosts
Instagram: @kingyaw_

In Volume Five: Chapter Thirteen, we welcome Poet, Writer, and Author of the poetry collection, “Elegy For Opportunity”, Natalie Lim.

Natalie Lim (she/her) is a Chinese-Canadian poet living on the unceded, traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Peoples (Vancouver, BC). She is the author of a full-length book of poetry, Elegy for Opportunity (Wolsak & Wynn, 2025) and a chapbook, arrhythmia (Rahila's Ghost Press, 2022). Winner of the 2018 CBC Poetry Prize and Room Magazine’s 2020 Emerging Writer Award, her work has been published in Arc Poetry Magazine, Best Canadian Poetry 2020 and elsewhere.

Contact Natalie:
Instagram: @natalielimwrites Threads: @natalielimwrites
Website: natalielim.ca Order Elegy For Opportunity

Recorded Spoken Word Performances Featured Include:

Timothy DuWhite – The Story of How He Happened
Instagram: @call.me.ugba
Threads: @saber.my.champagne

Denice Frohman – Accents
Instagram: @denicefrohman Website: denicefrohman.com

Kenneth Something – Rape Poem
Instagram: @kennethpoetry
Instagram: @kennethsomething

Mike Rosen – When God Happens
Instagram: @heymikerosen

Javon Johnson – Black and Happy
Instagram: @javonism

In Volume Five: Chapter Twelve, we welcome Poet, Writer, Playwright, and Author of the forthcoming poetry collection, "I Hope This Helps", Samiya Bashir.

Samiya Bashir’s honors include the Rome Prize in Literature, the Pushcart Prize, Oregon’s Arts & Culture Council Individual Artist Fellowship in Literature, plus numerous other awards, grants, fellowships, and residencies including MacDowell, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, and the New York Council on the Arts. She is the author of three books, and her fourth “I Hope This Helps” is scheduled to be released May 13th.

Contact Samiya:
Instagram: @scryptcreeper Threads: @samiyabashir
Website: samiyabashir.com Order I Hope This Helps

Recorded Spoken Word Performances Featured Include:

Melissa Newman-Evans – Nine Things I Would Like To Tell Every Teenage Girl
Instagram: @saber.my.champagne
Threads: @saber.my.champagne

L3thal Po3t – Superhero First Appearance: Here
Instagram: @poetic.dreamcatcher Second Appearance: Here

Tucker Bryant – Facts About Myself
Instagram: @iamtucks
Website: tuckerbryantspeaks.com

Meccamorphosis – Thriftshop
Instagram: @meccamorphosis
Website: meccamorphosis.com

Natasha Hooper – A Letter To Whomever Is Next
Instagram: @natashadeepoetry