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Our Southern series of Black Ekphrastic poetry “No Such Thing as Still Life” continues this week with our fourth installment from Joy Priest and her poem “The night never ended when one of us died.”
Denise Alden poetically speculates on the tender encounter between Nina Simone and Angela Davis when Miss Simone brought a red balloon in 1971 to Martin County Jail where Angela was held captive at the time.
Keesean Moore in our third installment of “No Such Thing as a Still Life” submerges us into as-of-yet ephemeral worlds where Black subjects have full range of motion.
Our second installment of “No Such Thing as a Still Life”: a Southern collection of Black ekphrasis features the work of Nordette Adams visualizes the young Black lives trapped within the literal and figurative confines of the plantation.
Our first installment of "No Such Thing as a Still Life"—a Southern collection of Black ekphrasis, features two poems from D.C. Native Taylor Johnson.