B.A. Van Sise's Children of Grass presents an anthology of photographic portraits paying tribute to the poets of today, displayed alongside the poems by new and established contemporary poets. The diversity of voices and craft in Children of Grass offers a new understanding of what it means to be an American in the 21st-century.

The exhibition provides opportunities for educational programming on numerous subjects, including the intersections between visual art and literature, poetry and its practice, and issues of class, privilege, racial and ethnic identity, as well as the meaning and importance of different forms of communication and art. The public has the chance to engage with the writings and imagination of the many renowned poets working today that are included in the exhibition – literary revolutionaries Rita Dove, Joyce Carol Oates, Nikki Giovanni, Joy Harjo, the current U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón among others – through provided contextual materials and video interviews.

In support of the recent showing at Woody Guthrie Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the venue offered extensive public engagement and educational programming: an evening with the best-selling author Joyce Carol Oates at the Williams Theater at the Tulsa Performing Art Center, People’s Poetry – reading series featuring a robust slate of brilliant local authors Audrey Kallenberger, Cheyenne Fletcher, Kaveh Bassiri, Phetote Mshairi, and Hanna Al-Jibouri, and Blackout Poetry in partnership with a local bookstore Whitty Books.