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Poet Robert Gibbons and visual artist Amy Williams team up to collaborate on a new series of erasure poems and artworks inspired by the words of Zora Neale Hurston's writings from the Federal Writers' Project. There is an almost mythical quality to the level of collaboration both Gibbons and Williams seek in this project. Hurston is the anchor, the muse, but the work is tailored for a modern audience.

Gibbons hand writes each poem on a 12 x 9” page. In the style of erasure poetry the words are taken directly from Hurston's "Go Gator and Muddy the Water." New poems are …