A couple of weeks ago, I went to a reception for a poetry/photo exhibit at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts. Lovely poet and visual artist Georgia Greeley had paired up with photographer Anna Botz for Shared Space: An Exhibit About Neighborhood and Sharing Space in a Community. It's a terrific exhibit, full of warm photos of Anna's neighborhood in St. Paul and funny and sometimes heartbreaking poems by Georgia. The exhibit goes until January 3, 2012. If you're a Minnesotan, I hope you'll get to check it out.
Georgia and Anna
Part of the exhibit was a broadside Georgia created for one of my poems.
Here I am with the broadside of my poem behind me.
There's the broadside--isn't it lovely? Georgia created 40 prints of it, and I got four of them. It was really cool to do this, to see one of my poems treated in a different way and turned into visual art.
And at the reception, I also read a few poems from BOOKSPEAK! POEMS ABOUT BOOKS. I get really nervous reading my work, but it went well (I think).
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