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Kameelah J. Rasheed: I have Asked Myself: “Can a Sentence be Haunted? And if so by what?”
September 2 @ 8:00 am – October 30 @ 5:00 pm
In her public poetry project I have Asked Myself:“Can a Sentence be Haunted? And if so by what?” Kameelah J. Rasheed responds to Boston’s memorial landscape by exploring the layered histories of Boston as discovered in the archives of the Boston Athenaeum. Rasheed gathered marginalia and ornate typefaces from their collection of Boston’s oldest books. These fragments are interwoven or sampled into digital designs to form visual poems to be displayed on digital signage situated around the Boston Common. Additionally, the poems will be placed inside public transit cars on the Orange and Green lines. The poems are inspired by Toni Morrison and act as an interruption in the ad-based public view to consider the complexities of our current socio-political context.
