Join Columbia-based poet Evelyn Berry for a night of protest poetry! Berry will host a group of poets as they share their original works, all centered around the ideas of protest and social justice.
Participating Poets:
Ed Madden
Jennifer Bartell Boykin
Tayler Simon
Yaz Balogun
Shannon Ivey
More About the Project:
Presented by the Jasper Project, The Degenerate Art Project is a week-long multidisciplinary arts event (July 9–12 at Stormwater Studios) inviting Columbia artists to respond to today's socio-political climate, and unite our local arts community—physically and in spirit—in support and solidarity during challenging times. Inspired by—and reclaiming—the legacy of the Nazi-labeled “Degenerate Art” of 1937, this project champions creative resistance and free expression through a visual art exhibition, featuring over 20 Midlands artists, and one-night-only poetry, community and music events.
About Our Host:
Evelyn Berry is an angry, horny, sad, transsexual, Southern poet, performer, editor, and educator living in South Carolina. She’s the author of Grief Slut (Sundress Publications, 2024) the chapbook Buggery (Bateau Press, 2020). Her chapbook T4T is forthcoming from Small Harbor Editions in 2026. She is the recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowship and South Carolina Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship for Poetry. She is the winner of the BOOM Chapbook Prize, Button Poetry Short Form Contest, Dr. Linda Veldheer Memorial Prize, KAKALAK Poetry Prize, Emrys Poetry Prize, Broad River Prize for Prose, and other honors. Her work has appeared in dozens of journals, including Beloit Poetry Journal, Raleigh Review, Moist Poetry Journal, Gigantic Sequins, Longleaf Review, Taco Bell Quarterly, and elsewhere. Her most recent work is forthcoming in The Normal School, Sandhills Magazine, and The Journal.
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