Yolanda Wisher

Curator of Spoken Word at Philadelphia Contemporary

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Yolanda Wisher Biography

Yolanda Wisher an author and curator of spoken word at Philadelphia Contemporary. Wisher is the author of Monk Eats an Afro and the co-editor of Peace is a Haiku Song.

Wisher performs a unique blend of poetry and song with her band The Afroeaters, and her work has been featured in a variety of media including Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem’s First Decade, GOOD Magazine, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Contemporary Black Canvas, Radio Times, PoetryNOW, Ploughshares, and CBC Radio.

A Pew Fellow & Hedgebrook Writer-in-Residence, Wisher was named the inaugural Poet Laureate of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, in 1999 and the third Poet Laureate of Philadelphia in 2016.

She taught high school English for a decade, served as Director of Art Education for Philadelphia Mural Arts, and founded and directed the Germantown Poetry and Outbound Poetry Festivals.

Wisher has also led workshops and curated events in partnership with the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Free Library of Philadelphia, and U.S. Department of Arts & Culture. She was the 2017-2018 CPCW Fellow in Poetics and Poetic Practice at the University of Pennsylvania, and she is currently the Curator of Spoken Word at Philadelphia Contemporary.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 12/18/2023.

Yolanda Wisher Videos

  • Yolanda Wisher, "sonnet w/cooking lexicon"
  • Yolanda Wisher and the Quick Fixx — Crosswoman Blues
  • "Mentoring Joy" A poem by Yolanda Wisher

Yolanda Wisher Books

  • Monk Eats an Afro
    Monk Eats an Afro

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