Imani Davis

Imani Davis is a poet, educator, scholar, and critic from New York. A recipient of fellowships from Cave Canem, Lambda Literary, The Mellon Foundation, StoryStudio Chicago, and the Stadler Center for Poetry, they’re currently a Ph.D. candidate in American Studies at Harvard, where they also got their M.A. in English. Imani’s poetry appears with the Academy of American Poets, Best New Poets, Best of the Net, PBS Newshour’s Brief But Spectacular Series, The Poetry Foundation’s Ours Poetica, Poet Lore, The Rumpus, Shade Literary Arts, The Offing, Brooklyn Poets, Poetry Daily, Frontier Poetry, Honey Literary, TEDx, ROOKIE Magazine, Adroit Journal, and elsewhere. Notably, they have performed at the Teen Vogue Youth Activism Summit, the Apollo Theater, Brave New Voices, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Kelly Writers House, and the Nuyorican Poets Cafe.