Grentry Burkes - What We Keep Poetry Series

Photo of Grentry Burkes outside of the USF Contemporary Art Museum. Photo by Jazz on Arts Axis Florida.

What We Keep is a night of poetry readings by USF graduate students in the "Graduate Poetry Workshop" class. The original poems were written with imagination, mystery, and wildness in response to the MFA artists' work featured in the exhibition I Keep the Ladders Clean 2024 MFA Thesis Exhibition.

Poetry Written and Performed By

Grentry Burkes

Artwork Referenced:

“swansong” by Caroline Colby

"Juicebox of Desire” by Andrew King

Video / Editing - Warren Buchholz

Audio - David Waterman

Video Produced By Arts Axis Florida

Special Thanks To:

Leslie Elsasser, Curator of Education

Dr. Julia Koets

in partnership with

USF Contemporary Art Museum

and

USF Department of English

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