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2008 Artist Projects Recipients Cynthia Hogue – Voice-Prints: A Katrina Elegy. The poet and her collaborator, photographer Rebecca Ross, will be an exploration in words and images of the journey from New Orleans to Phoenix of 12 Katrina evacuees, documenting their individual stories of grief and hope. Hogue is the Maxine and Jonathan Marshall Chair in Modern and Contemporary Poetry in the Department of English at Arizona State University. Ross is an award-winning photographer whose work has been exhibited nationally and abroad. Hogue lives in Phoenix and Ross lives in Tempe. Panel Comments: Hogue’s project will be meaningful because of her connection to New Orleans. She intimately knows its culture and people, which come through so movingly in her poems. We feel that this body of work, once completed and exhibited with the documentary photographs of her collaborator Rebecca Ross, will be important—documenting the lives of those affected by Katrina, people that already are in jeopardy of becoming invisible.
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