Hosting Wild Indigo with Sarah Browning with three incredible featured poets and an open mic.

Jeannine A. Cook (any pronouns) is a writer and shopkeeper at Harriett’s Bookshop in Philadelphia and Ida’s Bookshop.

Yamini Pathak is the author of poetry collection Her Mouth A Palace of Lamps (Milk & Cake Press, 2025) and chapbooks Atlas of Lost Places (Milk & Cake Press) and Breath Fire Water Song (Ghost City Press). She is a member of the 2025 Poets & Writers' Get the Word Out Poetry Cohort and the recipient of an Individual Artist Fellowship by the NJ State Council on the Arts. She holds an MFA from Antioch University, LA and her poems appear in West Branch, Poetry Northwest, and Tupelo Quarterly, among other journals. Yamini was nominated for Best New Poets and was a finalist for Frontier Poetry’s Global Poetry Prize. She lives with her family in West Windsor, NJ.

Jan Beatty’s eighth book, Dragstripping, was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press, 2024. Her work was recently featured in POETRY, and her poem, Stripshot, was named one of the best poems read in 2024 by 50 Contemporary Poets on LitHub. Beatty’s memoir, American Bastard, won the Red Hen Nonfiction Award. Work has appeared in the Atlantic, the New York Times Sunday Magazine, and Best American Poetry. She worked as a waitress, abortion counselor, and in maximum security prisons. She is Professor Emerita at Carlow University, where she directed the Madwomen in the Attic and the international low-residency MFA program.