What We Keep - Poetry Series

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.

A woman is standing in front of a microphone reading a book.
August 7, 2024
Poetry Written and Performed By Grentry Burkes. Artwork Referenced: “swansong” by Caroline Colby and "Juicebox of Desire” by Andrew King.
A woman singing into a microphone in front of a speaker
August 7, 2024
Poetry Written and Performed By Erin Olds. Artwork Referenced: “mo~ASerat” by Ainaz Alipourbaghal and “swansong” by Caroline Colby.
A man with a beard is standing in front of a microphone holding a book
August 7, 2024
Poetry Written and Performed By Thomas Page. Artwork Referenced: “Yellow Grouper” by Tanner Simon and “Dhobi ka Kutta” by Harsh K. Sharma.
A person is standing at a podium speaking into a microphone
July 25, 2024
Poetry Written and Performed By Daniel Dykiel. Artwork Referenced: “untitled” by Mason Dowling and “Respite” by Amber Toplisek.
A woman in a red dress is standing at a podium speaking into a microphone.
July 25, 2024
Poetry Written and Performed By Alye Prentice. Artwork Referenced: “as the cause of coming into being” by Amber Toplisek and “An Alphabet” by Mason Dowling
A woman is standing in front of a microphone giving a speech to a group of people.
July 25, 2024
Poetry Written and Performed By Jeevitha Kannan. Artwork Referenced: “Dhobi ka Kutta” by Harsh K. Sharma
A woman is speaking into a microphone in front of a crowd.
July 25, 2024
Poetry Written and Performed By Elizabeth Pottinger. Artwork Referenced: “swansong” by Caroline Colby
A man is singing into a microphone in front of a crowd of people.
July 25, 2024
Poetry Written and Performed By Alec Tvenstrup. Artwork Referenced: “An Alphabet” by Mason Dowling.
A man in a blue shirt is standing in front of a microphone.
July 25, 2024
Poetry Written and Performed By Alex Rivera. Artwork Referenced: “Cultural Concepts” by Manantial Clyburn and “Juicebox of Desire” by Andrew King.
A woman is standing at a podium speaking into a microphone.
July 25, 2024
Poetry Written and Performed By Grace Vlaming. Artwork Referenced: photographs by Manantial Clyburn.
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