gardening is a lifestyle for the gardener and the artist

a poetry garden is a new in-person series where poets discuss literal and figurative gardens in our lives and how the concept of gardening contributes to our writing practice, lifestyle, or both. A gardener will share their expertise at future events, inspired by SwapDC.

Each event is preceded by a seed discussion: a brief ten-minute conversation open to the audience before the presenting artists share. María Fernanda developed the seed discussion to increase the collective exchange between presenting artists and our beloved community in the audience.

Musings, visions, and stories

Sharing literary and visual artifacts, Clear Water guests reflect on their creative practice and, by concidence, growing up in a historically-recognized Black North American, Caribbean, or African city.

In Season 1, guests answer questions within the framework of Bhanu Kapil Rider’s The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers (1992-1996).

In Season 2, guests answer questions posed by inaugural season guests to interweave common threads.

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Though the homes of writers are often turned into museums, gardens resist that impulse to be so easily memorialized.

—Tadiwa Madenga, Clear Water Guest