The Words From the Revolution poster series is a collaboration from myself and Dara Beevas, co-founder of Wise Ink Publishing. We first met at an event at MCBA in late 2019. We were asked to tell a story about someone who impacted our creative lives and we spoke about the same person: Amos Paul Kennedy Jr., my mentor.

After the murder of George Floyd, I knew I had to do something. I reached out to my new pal Dara to create a series of posters that I hoped would speak to our collective pain, hope, and poetry. Dara introduced me to her friend Valérie Déus, a Minneapolis-based poet, who would write the perfect words for the first poster. We titled it Words From the Revolution and agreed we would continue it as a series. The second poster in this series is—you guessed it—on this cover! The quote comes from Dr. Joi Lewis, a prominent community healer and author in the Twin Cities.