Stevie Edwards
American Sonnet
After Terrance Hayes
and Wanda Coleman
Get your Victory Trump perfume!
It smells like vanilla, white privilege,
spray tans, and gardenia. Everything
is for sale if you have the right bitcoins.
Pay $200 a month for thinness shots
and watch your hair fall out. There’s a pill
and a price to fix that, too! Get your manipedi,
wax, and anal bleach at the one-stop shop!
Get your golden visa! Sell your grandmother’s
gold and silver at the pawn brokers.
There’s broke, and then there’s broke
broke. Build a home with enough rooms
to hide in. Try not to be afraid
of your parents working until they die.
American Triolet
Something is rotten in the state of America.
Alligator Alcatraz, a tented prison camp,
rows of bunk beds in the everglades of Florida.
Something is rotten in the state of America,
immigrants reduced from human to numerical.
Ordered torture in cramped quarters, floors flooded and damp.
Something is rotten in the state of America:
Alligator Alcatraz, a tented prison camp.
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| Brittany Vogel is an award-winning, New Jersey-based painter known for her bold color and beautifully expressive line. Her Powerful Women series has struck a chord well beyond the gallery walls, earning inclusion in multiple exhibitions including a Monmouth Museum x Smithsonian Exhibition and coverage in numerous press outlets, including Yahoo! News and feature spreads in TapInto and 07030 Magazine.
Vogel's work lives in public spaces as much as private collections. She created a 12-foot interactive mural, Suffragists Marching, in the Columbus Circle subway station, and has delivered artist talks at the Bruce Museum and the Hoboken Historical Museum. Her achievements include the competitive Merit Scholarship from the Art Students League of New York and features in three consecutive Monmouth Museum Annual Juried Exhibitions. She has mounted solo shows of both her Powerful Women and Order vs. Chaos series in New York City and New Jersey.
Whether she's covering a subway wall or a canvas, Vogel's aim is the same: command attention from across the room, then reward a closer look with a rich, layered story worth lingering over.
Brittany continues to paint, exhibit, and expand the Powerful Women series from her studio in Hoboken, New Jersey, adding new women and new stories to the collection.
For additional information, please visit www.BrittanyVogelArt.com.
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