I’ll bet you didn’t know the Everglades has an artist in residence.
The artist Arsimmer McCoy spent a month there. She used her solitary time in the swamp to make art.
She explored the ties between Black and Indigenous people in the Glades. And she turned that experience into poetry, and into photography. She even hosted a dinner there between Indigenous and Black elders.
McCoy looks for these connections across South Florida, where she was born and raised.
She wrote poetry about Friday night football in Richmond Heights, where she grew up. She captured the sounds of the clashing shoulder pads and the scent of barbecue. You can find it in the book Waterproof, a collection of "micro-elegies to Miami places.”
She’s building a museum in Carol City — out of her grandmother’s old house.
And she’s performing at an O, Miami event this Saturday at Books & Books in Coral Gables.
On the April 26 episode of Sundial, McCoy tells us how she uses art to bridge South Florida communities.
On Sundial’s previous episode, Caridad Moro-Gronlier told us how Miami is a character in her poetry collection Tortillera, where she reclaims the homophobic slur she heard growing up in the Cuban-American community.
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