3 images
jive turkey
(est. 2018) (3.5" x 3.5" - ink, paper)
funky chicken
(est. 2018) (3.5" x 3.5" - ink, paper)
play rug iii
(2020) (9" x 11.5" - ink, paper)
Poet, sound artist, and scholar, Duriel E. Harris is the author of three critically acclaimed volumes of poetry, including No Dictionary of a Living Tongue (2017), winner of the Nightboat Poetry Prize and Publishing Triangle Audre Lorde Award finalist. Multi-genre works include her one-woman show Thingification, the poetry video Speleology, and the conceptual project Blood Labyrinth. Appearances include performances at the Black Midwest Initiative, Lake Forest College, Naropa, the Chicago Jazz Festival, the Votive Poetics Workshop (New Zealand), the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Festival Internacional de Poesía de La Habana. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, Best American Experimental Writing, Letters to the Future, PEN America, and Poets.org, among others. Harris is Professor of English at Illinois State University and Editor of Obsidian: Literature and Arts in the African Diaspora.