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Artist: Tonia Gonzalez
Poet: Scott Bade
Poem: Black Sclera

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Scott Bade teaches at Kalamazoo College and the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts. He is also the coordinator of the Western Michigan University Center for the Humanities. His chapbook My Favorite Thing About Desire was a co-winner of the 2018 Celery City Chapbook contest. Scott Bade’s award-winning poetry has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and his poems have appeared in Fugue, Shadowgraph, Reed Magazine, Foothill and elsewhere.

Dustin Pearson is the author of A Season in Hell with Rimbaud (BOA Editions, 2022), Millennial Roost, and A Family Is a House. In 2019, The Root named Dustin one of nine Black poets working in “academic, cultural and government institutions committed to elevating and preserving the poetry artform.” In 2020, a film adaptation of his poem “The Flame in Mother’s Mouth” won Best Collaboration at the Cadence Video Poetry Festival. His writing has been recognized and featured by Shonda Rhimes and further distinguished by the Katherine C. Turner and John Mackay Shaw Academy of American Poets Awards and a 2021 Pushcart Prize. He is an assistant professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Toledo where he teaches creative writing.