ANNAPOLIS ARTS ALLIANCE GALLERY 57 WEST, NEW ARTISTS RECEPTION, SATURDAY, MAY 31, 2-4PM Lailee McNair Bakhtiar and 5 other charismatic artists will be welcomed to Gallery 57. Annapolis Arts Alliance is a non-profit organization dedicated to all the arts in Annapolis, Maryland and the surrounding neighborhoods.
I live and work in Baltimore. I am a graduate of Stevenson and Towson universities. I work in ink, watercolor, oils, clay and mixed media.
I also write short fiction and poetry.
James O'Sullivan is a writer, lawyer and teacher, and a 2022 recipient of an Individual Artist Award from the Maryland State Arts Council. He has worked as an attorney for the United States Department of Justice and has taught English literature at Georgetown University and the United States Naval Academy. His short stories, articles and poetry have appeared in various journals. He holds a master's degree in writing from The Johns Hopkins University. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland where he is a member of The Writer's Center.
Poem
Year: 2021
The American Audit
The sold-out debut performance of The American Audit, a 2019-2020 poetry and mapping project chronicling 400 years of Black American life using the extended metaphor of America as a business audited by African Americans after centuries of marginalization. The American Audit is a performance art piece consisting of original poetic verse, audio and video interviews with history and culture experts, and visceral imagery. Its function: to creatively assess the accrued toll on humanity afforded to people once considered property.
Medium: Video
Year: 2020
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Clare Banks is associate editor for Smartish Pace. A recipient of two Maryland State Arts Council Awards, her poems have
appeared in or are forthcoming in Boulevard, Poetry South, Poet Lore, and the Mississippi Review, among others. She has an MFA in poetry from the University of Maryland and lives in Baltimore City.
Chekwube O. Danladi is the author of Semiotics (Georgia, 2020), selected by Evie Shockley as the winner of the 2019 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. Her chapbook, Take Me Back, was included in the New-Generation African Poets: Nne boxset.