Precious Okoyomon: ‘Poets Are Going to Save the World’ Making careful use of soil and seed, plants and poems the work of Precious Okoyomon has captured attention globally before the New York-based artist and poet have even turned 30 Early last year, the artist-poet Precious Okoyomon transported into the Frankfurt MMA museum space layers and layers of soil, six effigies constructed of raw, dark lambswool, yarn, and wire, and vines of Japanese arrowroot, or kudzu. Then the pandemic ground the world to a halt and the museum, formerly a passport office, was forced to shutter. Inside, the kudzu – its rapaciousness so storied that it was colloquialized as ‘the vine that ate the south’– grew unabated.