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Morcos Key teamed up with the Poetry Society and NYBG to design

the experience “he Bond of Live Things Everywhere”. Curated by

poet and scholar Joshua Bennett, the project stages Black poetry

and performance in the open air, in close proximity to the water and

the trees, as well as the live things that evade such proper names.

Twelve poems were be installed along the Mitsubishi Wetland

Trail, accompanied by an immersive soundscape featuring audio

recordings of the poems and music by Black performing artists.

Inspired in part by “The Clearing”—a green space cut deep in the

woods where a free Black community finds grace in Toni Morrison’s

Beloved—this installation explores the bond between Black freedom

dreams and stewardship of the Earth. We share this combination

of poetry and music in pursuit of a collective vision, an electric

conviviality, rooted in the Black environmental imagination.

This is a call to The Clearing. An invitation to encounter the planet

we call home on new, and more liberating, terms.