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isabel cruz | poet 🇵🇷

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as seen at @njpac Spoken Word Salsa 💃
associate editor @waye_poetry 📑
@brooklynpoets fellow ‘25 ✨
Dodge Poetry ‘24 💜 DPF Ambassador ‘26

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The final day of the @dodgefoundation #Festival brought so many beautiful voices to the Community Catalyst stage that they brought warmth to our hearts on a chilly, windy day. I finally met my brilliant publisher and poet friend, Edward Vidaurre after a wait of five years.

@edward_vidaurre @averyc.castillo
@thetapavis
@itinerantmuse
@naughtless
@robertoisoffworld
@eesahvel

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you don’t have to be boricua to learn from boricua poetry. 🇵🇷
@leahvspeaks says it best: tonight’s workshop is for everyone. come learn bomba, plena, and the young lords’ legacy, then write from inside those traditions with us.

📍 brooklyn bridge park, picnic area next to pier 5 🕡 tonight, 6:30pm 🎤 open mic to close

free with RSVP ↓ link in bio

What do you want to learn today?

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Meet the Ambassadors—episode 2! This time the crew is preparing for Dodge Poetry Festival (Oct 15-17). But will they be ready in time? 🤔

⭐️Starring:
@glamdunkk
@darryldwayne
@eesahvel
@my_crumbled_thoughts
@producedbyroc
@siarra.divine

🔗 njpac.org/dodgefest

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What a year it’s been. As I try to catch up with clip posts of the year’s first readings, I’d like to mark time with an invite to join me (us) in a multi-lingual community reading tomorrow!, at Community Bookstore in Brooklyn—for the TBR Reading series, and launch of “B-Dragon Suite” by Stine An! Deets on slide 7.

Last month, I had the distinct pleasure of presenting a signature poem and talk on poetry organizing / community mental health at Harvard Divinity with friends, and returned to immediately give a co-feature for Unraveled Poetry back in Bayonne. Thank you to everyone who attended, read at or showed love for either of these awesome events. 🙏🏼🫂

This year rounds to a close with two fun surprises (TBA), an announcement, and finally, joining the 2026 Highland Park Poetry Festival (last slide for deets) with two poetic communities I love—our very own Unfold and P&SO in Hopewell. Look out for the flyers of those beautiful Group Features soon!

Hope to see you tomorrow night.

Special thanks to Andy, Leslie, Fiona, Gregg, Ariana, their teams, and all the organizers of these important and nourishing events centered on connection, humanity and soul. More than ever, we are inhabiting societies that need poetic community deeply.

Thanks also to my partner @doswidania, for making my event posts so elegant and sleek. ❤️ (Look out for her design work on a new project dropping soon!)

Photo: @thetapavis at NYC Po Fest! 🙏🏼

#poetry #poetrycommunity #poetsofinstagram

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@dear_community at @tolk.nyc August & September

Wonderful gatherings at a lovely community space.

Pentax 17, Portra 400

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Vids from another incredible WAYE

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Do you remember the 30th of September because I did, it was another banger WAYE open mic with a packed house of incredible poetry performances. This one goes in the books as a classic!

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POV: your algorithm finally showed you something worth watching.
Live music, good energy, and a reminder to slow down for a second. 🎸 #fyp #explore #cozyvibes #dearco #hiddengems

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How was this five months ago??

Last spring on May 27th, we launched the third issue of By the WAYE mag at @andcowork North!

Photos by @brianwinstonfraser

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RECAPPPP!!!🌸🌸🌸 What an amazing night of poetry and celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month!!💕💕💕Thank you to our incredible, fabulous host @eesahvel , our winner @saysomethingpoet , all of the competing poets, the judges, our volunteers, and all of the audience members who came through and made the night so great🥰We can’t wait until the next one! Mark your calendars for our spooky Sakura Slam on October 20th!! And thank you to @bkartscouncil for making this event possible!❤️❤️❤️

A huuuuge thank you as always to @michaelgebhardt10 for these incredible photos. (: 🌸

#poetryslam #brooklynevents #bushwick #artivism #hispanicheritagemonth

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thank god for puppies. & puppets. & very puppet-like puppies…

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My four features rocked the @underdog_bar on Saturday! Thank you for gracing us with your poetry, your presence and your beauty. I am grateful for every moment. Thank you @ibpen @annwallace409 @t_ony9871 @eesahvel #poetry #poems

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