Black Ekphrastic: RE-Writing the I / Re-righting the Eye – This is a project that started in earnest after a collaboration that I facilitated between The Phillips Collection and The American Poetry Museum, called the Poet’s Tour in 2009. After the project, I began to ask myself different questions about what type of critical and creative conversation poetry could have with visual and performing arts. This website is my humble effort to join this conversation that is happening as African, African American and other artists of African descent as well of poets and writers of the same descent are getting more visibility and acknowledgement for their work.
Anacostia Exposed (AnEx) – Anacostia Exposed is an ongoing community documentary initiative. The first project of AnEx was a photography and poetry collaboration, supported by Arch Development Corporation, the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and Belfast Exposed Archives and Photography Gallery.
Digital Archiving Project (DAP)—DAP is my ongoing personal archiving project of digital recordings of a wide array of lectures, performances, readings, and other events to document culture as it happens. My hope is to identify an institutional or academic partner to further archive, edit, index, and store these recordings for further study or use by artists and scholars to generate other creative and scholarly work.