Remember the game Telephone where you whispered something to the person next to you and that person whispered the “same” thing on down the line to see what came out after a long line of people passed it along?
A group of artists headed by poet Nathan Langston got together at the beginning of the Covid pandemic in 2020 to plan a massive artistic game involving 900 artists from 72 countries. The game shows all the connections which began with a short quotation about banyan trees.
The Steiny
Road Poet a.k.a. Karren Alenier was sent a painting by Jackie Avery. Avery’s
painting inspired Alenier to write “letting the backdoor slam.” In this poem, Alenier
talks to her maternal grandmother about school, learning, failed dreams, fear
of a nuclear attack as well as how public schools began as an aid to groom
factory workers. The poem is published on the Telephone website https://phonebook.gallery/ and in her new book how we hold on.
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