Featured Art Project: Dropped Down Blues
Audio-visual project featured in "How to Carry Water" Exhibit at PRAx in Corvallis, Oregon
Dropped Down Blues is a speculative blues fiction and poetry audio-visual project set in Pipers Creek, a 1.4-mile stream located in Carkeek Park in Seattle. The project includes nature field recordings, speculative fiction, poetry, and guitar riffs based on fieldnotes, observations, research, and guitar performances during the November 2022 visits to the creek during salmon run. I spent time this summer in the studio with a Jack Straw engineer to hone the audio (poetry, speculative fiction, field recordings, and guitar performance) for the project as part of the Jack Straw Artist Support Program.
The exhibit will be on display until December 21, 2024. Read more here!
Writing: Creative Nonfiction, Essays, Poetry, & Journalism
2022 “A Mother’s Justice” poem, NRDC, 10 April, 2022, https://www.nrdc.org/stories/four-poets-honor-chicagos-hazel-m-johnson-mother-environmental-justice
2022 “At Home in a Mined Body”, “Last, Seattle’s Magnificent Forest!”, and “Trending As Ghosts”, Crazyhorse Journal, 20 June, 2022, https://crazyhorse.cofc.edu/featured/at-home-in-a-mined-body/
2022 Blues Trips Through Memory, Journal of Creative Geography, 10 June https://youareheregeography.com/queer-ecologies/place/blues-trips-through-memory/
2022 Packaged Black Collaborative Community Responses, Henry Art Gallery, 10 March
2021 “Mourning an Englewood” poem, Jelly Bucket Journal, Issue 10, 16 August 2021
2021 “Cabbage Worm Blues”, The Roadrunner Review, 13 July 2021, https://roadrunner.lasierra.edu/cabbage-worm-blues/
2021 “Grandma’s Garden: A Place of Resistance, Abundance, and Black Environmental Memory”, NRDC, 14 June 2021, https://www.nrdc.org/stories/grandmas-garden-place-resistance-abundance-and-black-environmental-memory
2021 “Hope Isn’t A Vacant Lot”, National Resources Defense Council and Ham4Progress
Written Poem
Poem Performance:
https://www.instagram.com/ham4progress/reel/COTGz-HDiIN/
2020 “What Does Being up from the Table Look Like?” Black Embodiments Studio Journal, Vol. 3, September 2020
2020 “A Difficult Trek with My Daughter” Hobart, 31 February 2020, www.hobartpulp.com/web_features/a-difficult-trek-with-my-daughter.
2019 “Black Children and the School-to-Prison Pipeline.” Medium, ZORA, 31 July 2019, zora.medium.com/black-children-and-the-school-to-prison-pipeline-6271ad0636be.
2019 “Voices Heard: Life as a City Girl Gone Green.” The Mountaineers, 5 Mar. 2019, www.mountaineers.org/blog/voices-heard-life-as-a-city-girl-gone-green.
2018 “The Diverse Voices of Future Urban Environmental Educators.” The Nature of Cities, 7 June 2018, www.thenatureofcities.com/2018/06/07/diverse-voices-future-urban-environmental- educators/.