The traveling has started! HMP will be seen in at Holy Family University. Date pending but venue set!!!

Want to see HMP? Do you have a suggestion for an exhibit space near you? Well let me know since we only need 198 more places before the pieces are available for the charity Auction.

Faces of the HMP...




















More faces to come... for now check out the posts and give us some comments!

1
europe yanked one thigh
africa held the other
red es el agua


Visual Artist: Mollye Michelle Chudacoff
Poet: Mursalata Muhammad
Composer: TBA

2
whipped, my flesh felt as if it
tasted a kiss from
el sol’s white-hot lips


Visual Artist: Daniel Miller
Poet: Mursalata Muhammad
Composer: TBA

3
in shackled dark you hear sound
understand sad pain
but not his BANTU


Visual Artist: Christopher Garcia
Poet: Mursalata Muhammad
Composer: TBA

4
they push them off one by one
only mourning the
profit margin loss


Visual Artist: Pamela Flynn
Poet: Mursalata Muhammad
Composer: TBA

5
free waters cannot give up
free people, calmly,
without making waves



Visual Artist: Stephen Marc
Poet: Mursalata Muhammad
Composer: TBA

6
hold babies so tight squeeze life
from them in midair
splash…moms breathe water


Visual Artist: Howard Tran
Poet: Mursalata Muhammad
Composer: TBA

7
spinning around & around
your own stench makes a
new home for you now


Visual Artist: Jill Eggers
Poet: Mursalata Muhammad
Composer: TBA

8
everything hangs out of her
little black body
torn by big white men


Visual Artist: Chen Wang
Poet: Mursalata Muhammad
Composer: TBA

9
he hears her body breaking
realizes they
do more than eat flesh


Visual Artist: Melissa Selmon
Poet: Mursalata Muhammad
Composer: TBA

10
renamed “eve” but nunca a
madre, snaps los necks
de Angel’s* ninos


Visual Artist: Michael Forrest
Poet: Mursalata Muhammad
Composer: TBA

11
a celebrated jailbreak
from the whale’s insides
Cinques come pouring


Visual Artists: M. Saffell Gardner & Ibn
Poet: Mursalata Muhammad
Composer: TBA

12
Jesus* took my hand, cuffed it
in his belly I
know God is no man
*name of slave ship


Visual Artist: Carol Johnson
Poet: Mursalata Muhammad
Composer: TBA

13
vomiting out life they are
cargo whose hope lives
in their DNA


Visual Artist: Lynn Estomin
Poet: Mursalata Muhammad
Composer: TBA

14
Captives’ closeness swells
You reflex-pray God sees: you
know not what you do


Visual Artist: George Bayard
Poet: Mursalata Muhammad
Composer: TBA

15
Crewman’s work becomes
acknowledgment-- raw stank stomps
life; humanity


Visual Artist: Derek (Vito) Hollowell
Poet: Mursalata Muhammad
Composer: TBA

16
Screams-waves-ship-natives: ONE, my
Ship’s work silently
Chokes all I once knew


Visual Artist: Lester White
Poet: Mursalata Muhammad mmuhamma@grcc.edu
Composer: TBA

Haiku’s landing

the sun smiles on me
no less here, in this man’s land
than it did in mine


Visual Artist: Georgia Taylor
Poet: Mursalata Muhammad
Composer: TBA

Greetings:

It has been awhile since I've updated you on the progress of the Exhibit. Well all artwork is in and we're anxiously awaiting opening day. I hope to get all the arttists' bios and statements posted before the month zooms by. Wish I could show ya a piece but we've got to save that treat for the patrons who come out in Sept/Oct. to see them in person.