Carolyn Crump

Where do the poetic path and the democracy turnpike cross and join? But before all that, we'll visit the Fitton Center for Creative Arts in Hamilton, Ohio, where Sierra joined six other poets in responding to an exhibition of quilts, one of which was a portrait of Supreme Court Justice Katonji Brown Jackson called Lovely One.

Part Three Quilted Stories So, Sierra, how did this quilt-inspired project come about, and what was it about Carolyn Crump's Katonji Brown Jackson quilt that called out to you?

This was another Democracy in the Arts program down at the Fitton Center for the Arts in Hamilton, Ohio, with a collective of myself and six other poets, dancer included, and a wonderful two-piece band, we were responding to a quilting exhibition brought together by Dr. Carolyn Maslumi and the Women of Color Quilters Network.

So this network of quilters, they're international.

And then the Foundation put together an anthology booklet.

I responded with another American Libation piece.

I chose to respond to Carolyn Crump's quilt entitled Katonji Brown Jackson, Lovely One.

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