FOUR POETS WILL TAKE THE STAGE!
If you love it, clap, snap and make some noise.
If you extra love it, drop them a tip at their venmo.
Want to take some poetry home? It’s a great idea.
Before and after the show many poets
from the series will have their work for sale.
4 More Shows! Many more poets!
Samuel
Miranda
WHO IS SAMI?
Samuel "Sami" Miranda grew up in the South Bronx and resides in Washington, DC.
He is a visual artist, poet, filmmaker and high school teacher. He is the author of Protection from Erasure, published by Jaded Ibis Press, Departure, a chapbook published by Central Square Press, and We Is, published by Zozobra Publishing and his book Rewarding the Unhurried is forthcoming from Flowersong Press.
He is currently working on collaborative projects with musicians, visual artists and filmmakers. He has performed his poetry and facilitated poetry workshops throughout the US, St. Maarten, Mexico City, Oaxaca, and Madrid. Films he co-produced and co-directed, "Hiding Place", "Desert Poems", “Jesus” and"Spanish Joe Remembers" have been included in film festivals in DC, Berlin, the Netherlands, Madrid, Houston, Bethesda, Seattle and Milwaukee.
Sami Miranda also manages programming for the American Poetry Museum and serves as its Executive Director.
VENMO: SamiMiranda
Adrian
Gaston
Garcia (AGG)
WHO IS AGG?
A queer Latine storyteller whose mission is to share narratives that build community. His work is a love letter to his younger self and a shout out to all the queer brown boys who choose joy as their form of resistance. His poems have been published in Latino Book Review, Split This Rock, A Gathering of the Tribes, and DC Pride Poems. He co-hosts Los Bookis Podcast and founded Tintas DC.
Adrian Gaston Garcia (aka AGG) is a queer Latine storyteller whose mission is to share narratives that build and nourish community. Originally from Chicago and now rooted in Washington, D.C. for the past 14 years, Adrian draws inspiration from theater, spoken word, and the intersectionality of his lived experience. His work is a love letter to his younger self, an ode to femininity, softness, and survival and a shout out to all the queer brown boys who choose joy as their form of resistance.
Adrian’s poetry and performances have been featured at the American Poetry Museum, BloomBars DC, Busboys and Poets, the DC Latino Book Festival, DC Pride Poems, DiVerse Gaithersburg, Dupont Underground, Homo Stanzas, The Nail Salon, Our Space Experience, World Poetry Festival, and Vocales Verticales.
His recent work includes co-directing and performing in Jotería: Our Untold Stories at Arena Stage during DC Latinx Pride and WorldPride 2025. He also served as creative co-director for Noche de Jotería: Variety Show and as executive producer and co-director of Oye DC. In 2024, he collaborated with the Hispanic Heritage Foundation and Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company to debut new work about grief, legacy, and healing after the passing of his father.
His poems have been published in Latino Book Review, Split This Rock, A Gathering of the Tribes, and DC Pride Poems. He was a featured poet at the District of Pride Showcase hosted by the Mayor’s Office of LGBTQ Affairs in 2023 and 2025, and a storyteller for Story District’s Out/Spoken Pride special in 2023.
He is the co-host and producer of Los Bookis Podcast, a podcast for queer Latine bookworms, and the founder of Tintas DC, a writers group centering Latine voices in the DMV. He is a graduate of the Spanish Sin Pena Academy, a 2023 202Creates resident, and currently serves as the 2025 Pride Poet in Residence at the Arts Club of Washington.
Chloe
Yelena
Miller
WHO IS CHLOE?
Chloe Yelena Miller is the author of Perforated (2026) and Viable (2021), both published by Lily Poetry Review Books. Along with Shasta Grant, she co-founded Brown Bag Lit, an online writing community.
She is currently working on an illustrated manuscript about breasts and breast cancer with her mother, Melabee M. Miller, a visual artist. Chloe writes and teaches writing in Washington, D.C.
Jhon Carlos
Barrera
WHO IS JHON CARLOS?
Jhon Carlos, affectionally known as primo, is a writer, poet, and sits at the intersection of Lover Boy Street and Celia Cruz Way. In his writing, Jhon Carlos seeks to give a voice and visibility to the communities and sonic grooves that have given him the freedom to discover his own path as an artist. His work explores the nuances found within love, queerness, Latine identity, and being a child of immigrants.
Which has guided his storytelling, and has been evident in his live performances, most recently as the 2025 Hispanic Heritage Month Featured Poet at Eaton DC and Busboys & Poets. His community affiliations include the Dominican Professional Association, Latinx History Project, Tintas DC, BloomBars Writers Group, and as a 2025 Alumnus of the Dominican Writers Association’s “El Retorno” Writers Retreat.
Jhon Carlos Barrera is a Queer Caribeño-Latino of mixed descent from the Dominican Republic and Colombia, born in Queens, NY, and raised in Miami-Dade. Jhon Carlos is a first-generation college graduate who received his Bachelor of Business Administration in Marketing from Florida International University, and is now based in Washington, DC.
