The poetry Fisher-Wirth created out of Schuyler-Clay\u2019s images is the centerpiece of Theatre Oxford<\/a><\/strong>\u2019s production of Mississippi: Poetry in Photography<\/strong><\/em> at the Powerhouse Tuesday, January 30, at 7:30 pm<\/strong>. The production is based on Fisher-Wirth and Schuyler-Clay\u2019s book of poetry and photography, simply titled Mississippi<\/strong><\/em>. Books will be available both before and after the production, and Fisher-Wirth and Schuyler-Clay will be signing copies after the show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI love the rich orality of Mississippi culture, and I have tried to express it,\u201d Fisher-Wirth writes in the foreword of her and Schuyler-Clay\u2019s compelling book. \u201cTo write these poems, I listen to the voices and I listen to Maude\u2019s photography. Out of silence, the poems emerge.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Directed by Ren\u00e9 Pulliam<\/strong>, Mississippi: Poetry in Photography <\/em>will feature cast members performing the poetry that Schuyler-Clay\u2019s photography inspired in Fisher-Wirth. Her words and Schuyler-Clay\u2019s images create a complex tapestry from both historical and modern voices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The poems and photographs create mini-stories that range from moments in history such as Emmett Till\u2019s fateful encounter with Carolyn Bryant in Money, Mississippi, in 1955 to moments of legend such as bluesman Robert Johnson\u2019s encounter with the devil on the crossroads of Highways 61 and 49.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Some of the poems speak to ageless stories such as a teenager\u2019s crush on a visitor from another country, the tragic death in childbirth of a young mother and her child, the memories embedded in a decaying shack slowly sinking into floodwaters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Theatre Oxford\u2019s production of Mississippi: Poetry in Photography<\/em> is made possible in part by the support of the Mississippi Arts Commission<\/strong> and Yoknapatawpha Arts Council<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tickets are free to Theatre Oxford members and $12 for non-members. Tickets will be available at the door and seats can be reserved at https:\/\/oxfordarts.com\/theatreoxford<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mississippi may bear the scars of a history of poverty and racial oppression, but it is rich with<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":136159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15944],"tags":[451,27673,5,2662,27672,2016,4782,129,198,1673,2396],"class_list":["post-136155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-theatre","tag-ann-fisher-wirth","tag-maude-schuyler-clay-2","tag-mississippi","tag-mississippi-arts-commission","tag-mississippi-poetry-in-photography","tag-photography","tag-poetry","tag-rene-pulliam","tag-the-powerhouse","tag-theatre-oxford","tag-yoknapatawpha-arts-council"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/MS-Poetry-feat.jpg?fit=1200%2C749&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136155"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136270,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136155\/revisions\/136270"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/MS-Poetry-Poster-11-x-17-copy.jpg?resize=640%2C990\")
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