CYN GRACE SYLVIE PRESENTS:

POETRY FORTUNES

The “Poetry Fortune” Tent is an interactive installation inviting participants to engage in a communal exchange of poetic insight. Inside the tent, visitors are encouraged to take a pre-written poetry fortune from one box and leave their own in another.

About the Artist: Cyn Grace Sylvie (she/they) is a queer performer and spiritual worker whose work explores the internal drives and desires of the human experience through the lens of diaspora, mythology, sexuality, and mysticism. Cyn is a recipient of Epiphany Magazine’s 2017 Short Nonfiction Prize, and was long-listed as a Notable Nonfiction Selection in, ‘The Best American Essays of 2018’ (Mariner Books). Her work performed at the Whitney Biennial, and featured in The Rumpus, BRKFST Biannual, MATH Magazine, Aoetearotica Magazine, Dewdrop, Beyond Words, Daughter Zine and The Literary Review. A graduate of Drexel University, she is a creative director by profession, an oracle by calling, and a fatalist by design. She resides in Jersey City, New Jersey.