Baltimore Sonnets

 What an amazing week visiting UGA and meeting book historians, scholars, students and staff  from the Departments of English and Romance Languages, the Institute of African American Studies, the Lamar-Dodd School of Art, the Institute for Women's Studies, UGA Libraries, Bibliographic Society of America and the Office of Institutional Diversity. Thank you! 

  Handmade textile book by Suzanne Coley, 2023 “The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being. Somebody says you have no language and you spend twenty years proving that you do. Somebody says your head isn’t shaped properly so you have scientists working on the fact that it is. Somebody says you have no art, so you dredge that up. Somebody says you have no kingdoms, so you dredge that up. None of this is necessary. There will always be one more thing”.    Toni Morrison