I’m from there but also over there!

Artwork by Ronald Cyrille
Verse inspired by Édouard Glissant

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Stories matter. Many stories matter.

Ceramic work by Samuel Sarmiento
Verse by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie [The Danger of a Single Story]

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how do we . . . find our own?

Artwork by Kia Redman [Memoirs from Paradise, 2022]
Text by artist

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¹ Video

everyday spaces
people gather

Artwork by Laura de Vogel [Sunday Better Day Kam Man, 2026]
Text by artist

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thinking about new icons that can emerge from the colonial debris.

Artwork by Simon J Tatum [Colonial Debris, 2022]
Text by artist

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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?]

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¹ Video

building from everything
that comes into people’s heads

Artwork by Sonia Farmer [Stark, Chapter 1: Voyage, 2025]
Verse by artist

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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)]

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A little rain never hurt anybody

Artwork by Charlie Godet Thomas [Cloud Study (Partner Dance), 2020]
Verse by artist

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¹ Video

yellow is screaming.

Artwork by Charlie Godet Thomas [Fluctuating Song (Light), 2023]
Verse by Derek Walcott [Another Life (1973)]

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No, no soy un poema.
Soy una sátira y me gusta.

Artwork by Franz Caba
Verse: Yaissa Jiménez [Piropo]

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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

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^{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]

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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]

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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]

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¹Video

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]

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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]

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A small library in the Caribbean Sea.

as things be/comelet's destroythen we can destroywhat we be/comelet's buildwhat we becomewhen we dream

as things be/come
let's destroy
then we can destroy
what we be/come
let's build
what we become
when we dream