The Archive Project - Taylor Byas & m. mick powell in conversation with Jae Nichelle

The Archive Project - Taylor Byas & m. mick powell in conversation with Jae Nichelle

We’re back at the 2025 Portland Book Festival this week, with poets m. mick powell and Taylor Byas, and moderater Jae Nichelle. Taylor Byas’s second collection, “Resting Bitch Face,” uses watching and surveillance to explore Black female subjectivity. Byas engages with multiple art forms -- painting, film, sculpture, and photographs – to explore the perspectives of artist and muse, of watcher and watched. Taylor is in conversation with m. mick p…