Versify #28: A Penny Sewn Into Every Scrap
For Nashville muralist Andee Rudloff, the process of making a public artwork is about a lot more than adding a little color to urban landscapes. Andee sits down with poet J Joseph Kane, to talk about...
View ArticleVersify #29: All Power To All The People
When Ritagay Sisk-Jamison first joined the Philadelphia chapter of the Black Panther Party in 1969, she was under scrutiny not only from some of its members but also the federal government. Ritagay and...
View ArticleVersify #30: A Kiss For Every Frog
Perhaps you’ve had the experience of standing on some nondescript street corner, minding your own business, when a stranger comes along and tries to chat you up. Maybe you found yourself thinking, “I...
View ArticleVersify #31: Before Bukowski
There are about as many ways to fall in love with the craft of writing as there are books to be read. But whatever the means of introduction, that first literary gateway drug, it’s typically hard to...
View ArticleVersify #32: Do You Want To See More?
Tasha Lemley has spent much of her professional life championing the stories of people on the margins. She co-founded The Contributor, a Nashville nonprofit “street newspaper” that helps to empower...
View ArticleVersify #33: The Blade And The Blooming
For attorney and aspiring writer Adam Hill, his journey toward understanding the life of his younger brother, Eric, began by coping with Eric’s death, both in the present and 1,000 years before either...
View ArticleVersify #34: Little Boxes All The Same
Demetria Kalodimos is something of a Nashville institution, anchoring the Channel 4 news desk since she first arrived in Music City in 1984. But 30-plus years into her career, Demetria was unprepared...
View ArticleVersify #35: Beyond A Four-Walled Hustle
For artist, influencer and activist Thaxton Waters, the roots of his artistic practice began with a suspicion of history. An unease about the stories around the community he was born into. And that...
View ArticleVersify #36: Imagine This Chutzpah
For Nashville Choreographer Diane Kimbrough, her route to a career as a professional dancer, was influenced by her family history. A descendant of Ukrainian Jews who fled during the Pogroms of the...
View ArticleVersify #37: Our Babies Have Always Been The War
It’s not an exaggeration to say that Rhiannon Giddens is a narrative archaeologist. A historical thaumaturge who conjures the often willfully forgotten chronicles of American history and renders them...
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