good grief, organized by Jackie Clay

I have read about grief

as though it were a parade

we could watch from the sidewalk:

Anger marching just ahead

of the veterans

in their smartly pressed uniforms

but several blocks behind

The brass band

of Denial– while    Acceptance,

the grand marshal of it all,

brings up the rear in a Cadillac

like the exclamation point

at the end

of a run-on sentence;

- Solidarity, Art Nahill

 

About the organizer

Jackie Clay (she/her) is a Birmingham-raised, New York-based art worker and curator. She is currently a program associate in the Arts and Culture program at the Mellon Foundation. Prior to joining the Foundation in 2021, Jackie worked as a curator in the Alabama Black Belt region. A graduate from California College of the Arts with dual-interdisciplinary degrees, she writes and researches performance and video, particularly work by women from the late 1960s to 1990s.