On Thursday, Oct. 30, at 7 p.m., the Adirondack Center for Writing (ACW) will present an evening of electrifying spoken word poetry by three nationally acclaimed, NYC writers and educators: Mahogany L. Browne, Noah Arhm Choi, and Jive Poetic.

“This annual event is always a highlight of our year, but this time it is going to be an especially amazing performance,” said Nathalie Thill, ACW’s executive director. “All three poets have been exploring poetry, performance, and music – all such incredibly creative people. We are so proud to bring them to Saranac Lake.”

This event is free and open to all; anyone interested in attending can learn more and register at adirondackcenterforwriting.org/poetry-on-broadway-2025.

Featured Writers

Writer, playwright, organizer, and educator, Mahogany L. Browne is a Kennedy Center’s Next 50 fellow and a MacDowell Arts Advocacy Awardee. She is the latest recipient of the Theodore H. Holmes ’51 and Bernice Holmes National Poetry Prize and is on the National Book Award longlist for her YA novel, A Bird in the Air Means We Can Still Breathe. Her other books include Vinyl Moon, Chlorine Sky (optioned for a play by Steppenwolf Theater), Black Girl Magic, and banned books Woke: A Young Poet’s Call to Justice and Woke Baby.

Noah Arhm Choi is the author of CUT TO BLOOM and the winner of the 2019 Write Bloody Prize. They received an MFA in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College, and their work appears in Apogee, The Rumpus, Split this Rock, and elsewhere. Noah was nominated for Best of the Net in 2022, shortlisted for the Poetry International Prize, and received the 2021 Ellen Conroy Kennedy Poetry Prize, alongside fellowships from Kundiman, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and the Adirondack Center for Writing. A Lambda Literary Writer in Schools, they have worked as an educator in New York City since 2013 and currently work as an Equity Senior Program Associate at NYU Metro Center.

Jive Poetic is a writer, organize,r and educator based in Brooklyn, New York. He received his BA in Media Studies from the State University of New York at Buffalo and his MFA in Writing and Activism from Pratt Institute. In 2017, Jive was the first recipient of the John Morning Award for Art and Service. His book Skip Tracer (W. W. Norton, 2024) is an innovative memoir composed of poems, prose, music, and photographs that convey the complexity of Blackness in the Americas. He is the founder of Insurgent Poets Society, Carnival Slam: Cultural Exchange, and the co-founder of the Brooklyn Poetry Slam. His work has been showcased on season four of TVONE’s Lexus Verses and Flow, PBS News Hour, and BET.