<i>the streets of used to be</i> includes six images created by Renée Stout and six poems written by Carol A. Beane about lives lived in and on the streets and about people’s efforts to survive with some measure of dignity.

Beane explains, “I see many different neighborhoods and people; I listen; I encounter many of the same people over varying periods of time; I glimpse their activities and lives unevenly, yet see them with some degree of coherence. Those that make a deep impression on my mind’s reappear as poems. Renée Stout’s images visually discover the feelings I intend my words to convey. Intense colors and shadings together with the fine specificity of her delineations capture the sense of these lonely figures, objects, spaces, and implied environments.”

Carol A. Beane is associate professor in Howard University’s Department of Modern Languages and Literature. Stout works in variety of media, including painting, sculpture, photography, and installation. She has exhibited her work around the world. Both artists live in Washington, D.C.

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