I’ve read a few times in these last months, but honestly it feels a bit like “look at me” to shout it out every time. Yeah, I know, that’s called publicity, getting the word out, what a writer is supposed to do—especially if you’re a writer who won’t do Facebook.
Anyway, here I am for two readings this week.
Tuesday, 4/13 @ 7 p.m.
ArtWord is an annual program of the Portland Museum of Art (PMA) and Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance (MWPA). Its creator was poet Lee Sharkey, who passed last year. There was no 2020 event.
Usually the writers who are selected read their poems (one each) in the museum auditorium while the artwork is projected on a large screen. There’s a quiet solemnity to the rhythm.
This year, it is an online event. Register HERE to receive a link from the PMA. The artwork will be projected onscreen. My poem is “Throughput,” written in response to David Driskell’s “Ghetto Wall #2,” part of the permanent collection (we each select what we want to write to, up to three submissions). The painting was made in 1970, the year of the centennial of the 15th Amendment (the poem in 2020, the year of the sesquicentennial). Reading (in this order) are: Sherry Abaldo, Katherine Hagopian Berry, Linda Buckmaster, Lillian Felsenthal, Annaliese Jakimides, Judy Kaber, Carl Little, Leslie Moore, Craig Sipe, David Stankiewicz, Martin Steingesser, Meghan Sterling, and Nancy Walters.
The whole shebang will be over by 8 p.m.
Wednesday, 4/14 @ 7 p.m.
The anthology Wait: Poems from the Pandemic, edited by Jeri Theriault, has just been published by Littoral Books. It really is a beautiful book, solid work, with full-color art included. The poems have been organized into three sections: Body, Home, and World. My poem, “Isolation Assignment,” falls in the Body section, and I will be the first reader of the event, with a total of three poets from each section. HERE is the link for that night.
Although there will be a Q&A, this will be over before 8 p.m. too.
Thanks for being in my world. Be well.