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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
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.
Adam Tavel is the author of six books of poetry, including two recent collections: Rubble Square (Stephen F. Austin State University Press, 2022) and Green Regalia (Stephen F. Austin State University Press, 2022).
Teri Ellen Cross Davis is the author of a more perfect Union, (winner of the 2019 Journal/Charles B. Wheeler Poetry Prize, Mad Creek Books) and Haint, (winner of the 2017 Ohioana Book Award for Poetry, Gival Press, 2016). She was awarded the Poetry Society of America's 2020 Robert H. Winner Memorial Award and is the recipient of grants from the Sustainable Arts Foundation and The Freya Project.
Tara A. Elliott’s poems have appeared in many journals, including The TAOS International Journal of Poetry & Art, The American Journal of Poetry, Stirring, Wildness (UK), Gargoyle, The Shore, The Storms (UK), and Ninth Letter. Executive Director of Eastern Shore Writers Association (ESWA), she is also the founder and director of Salisbury Poetry Week, and the chair of the annual Bay to Ocean Writers Conference (BTO). The 2018 recipient of Maryland Humanities' Christine D.
Tomas Payne is not just a photographer, but an individual that has the ability to freeze time. He tries not to just capture images, but use photography as a medium to tell a story. Invoking emotions from those who view his work while pushing viewers that awe over an image and immense themselves fully into the scene. Since his freshman year of high school, Tomas’s camera never left his side, instead he used the time to turn his hobby into a passion. Capturing images for performer from the Washington Metropolitan Area, Non-profits, and activist.