Our second installment of "No Such Thing as a Still Life": a Southern collection of Black ekphrasis features the work of Nordette Adams visualizes the young Black lives trapped within the literal and figurative confines of the plantation.
Nordette Adams
Nordette N. Adams has lived in various states in the USA, but she's in her hometown, New Orleans, Louisiana, now. Her poetry has appeared in Rattle Magazine’s “Poets Respond,” About Place Journal, Nasty Women Poets: An Unapologetic Anthology of Subversive Verse (Lost Horse Press) and elsewhere. She is a member of the Peauxdunque Writers Alliance who earned her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of New Orleans.