Coming Soon:
Bodies Luminous
2026
In this issue, participating poets respond to Diamond Forde’s “fat girl Dances with a Stranger at a Block Party” from her collection, Mother Body. Diamond Forde, celebrates, mourns, and redefines the journey of the fat girl through a landscape fixed on her disappearance and destruction. Artists, in collaboration with poets, initiate a conversation about the body and the way it takes up space.
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This approach reflects the way poetry is being redefined in the twenty-first century through genre bending, cross-disciplinary compositions, and technology. Throughout this exhibition, witness the way poetry continues to use image, lyricism, persona, and form to evoke the gravity and joy of human experiences.
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“fat girl was always waiting on the edge of other poems... She gave me space to contend with my racialized and gendered body, to explore the dissonance between ‘who I be’ and ‘who you see’... I’m here; I’m going nowhere.”
– Diamond Forde
Previous Exhibitions
On the Verge
Exhibition Re-Opening: On the Verge of Hope
October 11th, 2024
We can’t forecast everything that will occur around or to us in our lifetime. This leads to feelings of anxiety about and dread of negative experiences or anticipatory excitement and eagerness for positive experiences. With the theme of “On the Verge,” we captured and shared the feeling of the moment before something big happens through poems and installation art. In our re-opening of this exhibition, we collaborated with Casey Vstel to retitle the exhibition as "On the Verge of Hope" featuring additional works selected by Casey.​
