I’m from there but also over there!
Artwork by Ronald Cyrille
Verse inspired by Édouard Glissant
Stories matter. Many stories matter.
Ceramic work by Samuel Sarmiento
Verse by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie [The Danger of a Single Story]
how do we . . . find our own?
Artwork by Kia Redman [Memoirs from Paradise, 2022]
Text by artist
1 Video
everyday spaces
people gather
Artwork by Laura de Vogel [Sunday Better Day Kam Man, 2026]
Text by artist
thinking about new icons that can emerge from
the colonial debris.
Artwork by Simon J Tatum [Colonial Debris, 2022]
Text by artist
1 Video
Oyada di mama no ta kita
(A mother's evil eye never goes away)
Stills by Vesuhely Americaan
Verse by artist [How do we heal from the internalized perception of the other?]
1 Video
building from everything
that comes into people’s heads
Artwork by Sonia Farmer [Stark, Chapter 1: Voyage, 2025]
Verse by artist
as things be/come
let's destroy
then we can destroy
what we be/come
let's build
what we become
when we dream
Artwork by Charlie Godet Thomas [Fractured Poem, 2023]
Verse: Nikki Giovanni [Word Poem (Perhaps Worth Considering)]
A little rain never hurt anybody
Artwork by Charlie Godet Thomas [Cloud Study (Partner Dance), 2020]
Verse by artist
1 Video
yellow is screaming.
Artwork by Charlie Godet Thomas [Fluctuating Song (Light), 2023]
Verse by Derek Walcott [Another Life (1973)]
No, no soy un poema.
Soy una sátira y me gusta.
Artwork by Franz Caba
Verse: Yaissa Jiménez [Piropo]
But I looked at the dress on the floor and it was as if the fire had spread across the room.
Artwork by Ada Maricia Patterson [these women we love with fire]
Verse: Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea, 1966
1 Courtesy of the artist & Copperfield London.
Death keep gettin-away
& gettin-away & gettin in the way
Work by Shanice Smith
Verse: Kamau Brathwaite [Kumina, Day 17]
1 Essay: Madame Lazuli: A luta Continua, Vitória é certa!
Identity is no longer just a root, but also a rhizome
Animation stills by Ruben Cabenda [from Tongo Sondi, 2025]
Verse: Édouard Glissant [Poetics of Relation, Original publication 1990 and English translation 1997]
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Animation stills by Marinna Shareef (from Consequences of Remembering)
Verse: Derek Walcott [Love After Love, Originally from COLLECTED POEMS 1948-1984]
1 Video
These islands are not perfectly, foreverably
reboundable.
Book wrap by Jocmarys Viruet Feliciano and Poinciana Paper Press for Lucayan Art Residency
Verse: Ark Ramsay [Un Santo a la Vez (A Prayer in Motion), 2025]
1Interview, 2Process, and 3Download
*Book wrap made of kitakata paper, dyed with avocado pits and textured using the joomchi technique
...extravagant, reckless, improvident, weed.
Works by Katherine Kennedy
Verse: Olive Senior [Gardening in the tropics, 2005]