Congratulations to Simone White and Marc Anthony Richardson, 2021 Creative Capital Award Recipients for Poetry!

Creative Capital has announced the selection of 35 projects, the work of 42 individual artists, for the 2021 Creative Capital Awards! Drawn from a pool of nearly 4,000 applications and selected by an eight-member, multidisciplinary panel, the 2021 recipients working in the poetry genre are Simone White and Marc Anthony Richardson. About their projects: 

Marc Anthony Richardson, Philadelphia, PA
The Serpent Will Eat Whatever is in the Belly of the Beast

In The Serpent Will Eat Whatever is in the Belly of the Beast, seven Black assassins are assigned to reciprocate violence inflicted on the Black community by taking the life of a white person, according to the day of the week that it happened. The speculative novel takes place during a day of rioting, after the white rapists and murderers of a Black girl are released from jail without charges, and the Black assassins seek retaliation. When Monday receives his assignment to kill the only white girl in his inner-city chess program, he realizes he is platonically in love with her, and decides to save her.

Simone White, Brooklyn, NY
or, on being the other woman

In her book and performance or, on being the other woman, Simone White interweaves a long poem with a theoretical essay bringing post-Marxist materialism into conversation with Black studies. Inspired by the many questions trap music raises about what “social” means for Black women, a performance embeds the writing in a sound and movement environment to ask, what is a Black woman who works to live, and what is sexual freedom?

Read more about all of the 2021 Creative Capital Award Recipients here.