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Poets and Political Power
I’m really interested to see the results of the Poetry Coalition’s project “What is it, then, between us?: Poetry & Democracy.” I heard about it through MassPoetry’s call for participants, and while I didn’t get my submission in on time, I’m looking forward to reading and admiring the artistic erasure poems created from some iconic…
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ArtWeek 2019 Highlights
#ArtOfRainPoetry It was a gloriously damp weekend for much of the start of ArtWeek, which meant good visibility for the Emily Dickinson Museum’s installation of rain poetry in downtown Amherst. Below are some of the poems that I spotted walking around town (including mine!) Florence Poetry Carnival Up the road from where I live, the…
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Looking forward to rain!
A few weeks ago, when the Emily Dickinson Museum posted a call for short poems for potential inclusion in their #ArtofRainPoetry event for ArtWeek, I got very excited. I’ve enjoyed the many photos I’ve seen from MassPoetry’s previous rain poetry installations, and I’m always in favor of projects that get poetry out into public view. …
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Bringing poetry to museum practice
I love the opportunities which present themselves for my creative life and my work life to collide. Today I had the chance to present a webinar for my day job at the New England Museum Association, on bringing a poetry mindset to the world of writing exhibit labels (or using poetry to interact with your…
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Seeking New Landscapes? Read these!
Writing that is strongly situated in its setting has always appealed to me, as a place-based writer. So when I saw the call for submissions for “landscapes” from all the sins, I had a lot of fun looking through my ‘ready for sending’ folder and hit ‘submit’ faster than the Flash on a sugar rush.…
