I’ve just recently returned from the borderlands between Arizona and Mexico, a place of great drama, beauty, and epic history. The Tubac Center for the Arts is the sponsor but many partners are involved. I’m working with a remarkably talented and enthused community in Tubac and poets in Green Valley, Arizona. The Poetry of the Wild
[col grid=”2-1 first”] [/col] [col grid=”2-1″] Ode to Big Muddy Asian Carp by Richard Newman An angler’s hatred for you is instinctive. You’ve spawned and spread up every confluence, and here, below the Alton lock and dam, you litter broken concrete shores by thousands, yanked from your riverbeds and lined like missiles, some six-feet long
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On May 3rd and 4th we had two poetry walks in St Louis, each marking a trail of poetry boxes that are installed in the city until August 2nd. The poetry walk became public performance as the poems were shared out loud, with the poets reading their own work and the audience responding and moving
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The idea of the poetry box is deceivingly simple, what could be so hard about bringing a poem and art together? Ah, you’d be surprised. Once the artist gets involved with a poem that has been carefully crafted, each word carefully chosen, it’s a problem of artistic restraint and thoughtful design so that the poem and
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In early February I’ll be flying out to St Louis invited by Gallery 210 at the University of Mo/St. Louis. The gallery is located on the urban campus of the University. The last time this project went West was to Colorado Springs in 2006, a very different landscape than St. Louis. St. Louis is the
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