Monday Poets exists to inspire and connect poets and community members across the city of Philadelphia. In 2024, the Free Library of Philadelphia celebrated the 30th anniversary of the Monday Poets program. The theme of this celebration was Sankofa, a Twi word from the Akan Tribe of Ghana which loosely implies that to move forward, one must “go back and get it”. In that spirit, at each event we celebrated a past Monday Poet and introduced a new one. This chapbook is a collection of their poems.