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Why Black Ekphrastic? This is why…
Yeah, I know a long time…but I have been working…I have a book coming out this year…I just moderated a panel at The Ackland for […]
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Hot take…Black Ekphrastic fire from Tiana Clark.Right of the presses…At The Tate
Go to Virginia Quarterly Review right now to read Poet. Professor. Essayist, Tiana Clark’s piece At the Tate. I know that Cezanne is not a […]
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black ekphrastic @ National Gallery of Art in DC “Poetry is a country”
Today, the National Gallery of Art in DC is holding a festival it is calling “Poetry is a Country” where poets are responding to works […]
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William J.Harris x Romare Bearden’s “The Black Card Players”
What Dr. Harris is doing in this poem is interesting. While he could have easily deployed it as a paragraph of jagged prose, he decided […]
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I’m B(L)ack…
Took a bit of time off to rest and recover, but I am back and will do my best to post more regularly here. There […]
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Simone White (poet) X Lorna Simpson (artist)
Not much to say, because they say it. All. Watch.Listen.Learn.
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Dark Reflections by Russell Craig
Russell Craig is a visual artist who was impacted by the criminal justice system as a teenager. This catalog has poems by Reginald Dwayne Betts […]
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Prevenance Suite “quarantine collages” by Brent Hayes Edwards at Rivers Institute for Contemporary Art & Thought
Scholar, translator, and editor Brent Hayes Edwards was invited by the Rivers Institute for Contemporary Art & Thought to exhibit a series of collages […]
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Julie Mehretu x Robin Coste Lewis @ Marian Goodman Gallery – Paris
I am so excited to see two Black woman artists in different disciplines, whose work I dig, collaborate in such a deeply engaged way. From […]
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- Why Black Ekphrastic? This is why…
- Hot take…Black Ekphrastic fire from Tiana Clark.Right of the presses…At The Tate
- black ekphrastic @ National Gallery of Art in DC “Poetry is a country”
- William J.Harris x Romare Bearden’s “The Black Card Players”
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