The following are a sample of performances and poems by Surviving the Mic leaders and participants.
Nikki Patin performs “Remain Silent”:
Mojdeh Stoakley performs “Blonde Jesus” at Great Plains 2016:
Cherlnell Lane performs “For Little Girls Who Considered Suicide When the Silence Wasn’t Enough” :
Poetry
Ain’t It Time? by Sauté Harden Tate, Chicago Reader
An Open Letter To The Powers That Be by Cherlnell Lane, Chicago Reader
Photosynthesis and other life lessons by Jackson C. Santy, Chicago Reader
Revolution Begins Within by Nikki Patin, Chicago Reader
Show Me A Man by Ona Wang, So To Speak Journal
Surviving the Mic 