A Poet Tree Production – a series of quarterly evenings of poetry and jazz
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Poems of Place Craft Talk
“Poems of place contain the psychological and geographic maps we make of the worlds
we know, think we know, and those we remember.”
––KC Trommer

 Join us online for a generative poetry workshop and craft talk with poet Melissa McKinstry. We’ll be reading and writing poetry inspired by the current exhibit Capturing Her Environment: Women Artists, 1870-1930. The session will begin with an orientation to some of the art and artists, led by Francesca Soriano, Associate Curator of American Art.

 We’ll read a selection of poems by women whose life and work coincides with these women painters and then a selection of poems by contemporary women poets in Maine, whose work “captures their environment.”

 Participants will have the opportunity to explore how place is evoked with craft elements such as detail, image, and form. We will map the worlds we know. There will be time to write, and the option to share what you create.

A Poet Tree Production – a series of quarterly evenings of poetry and jazz