Yessmaa is an award-winning spoken word artist and cultural curator whose work lives at the intersection of poetry, identity, and collective healing.

Named Spoken Word Artist of the Year 2025 by the Boston Music Awards, she delivers performances that are both lyrically masterful and emotionally resonant.

Her work is deeply personal and expansively cultural, drawing from lived experience, inherited memory, and the everyday moments that shape identity. Rooted in her Afro-Arab lineage and Algerian heritage, Yessmaa’s poetry is informed by language, ritual, migration, and the quiet resilience of communities that have learned to carry history in their bodies.

Yessmaa’s performances span from intimate local spaces to national platforms, reflecting a body of work that travels with purpose and resonance.

Stay tuned to experience her work live in a city near you.