SSU and the Mass Poetry Festival have asked SAA to have an exhibition during the Festival this year May 2-5, 2013. Mass Po invites all Festival participants throughout the state to discuss 10 poems each year. Five are chosen from poets who have passed away and five poems are chosen from living poets. Often a living poet will attend the Festival.
The Salem Arts Association members are asked to respond to one of the 10 poems with their artwork. Location for the exhibit will be announced. Artists should be prepared to show their work on their own easels if we get a location not suitable for hanging on the wall. A full packet with the CALL FOR PROPOSALS will be posted in February. Deadline will be early April.
Artists who would like to submit artwork for the Mass Po program (which may or may not be part of the exhibition), please email to <EGH.ARTS@gmail.com>
Links to the 10 poems—
Common Threads 2013: TEN PASTORALS (10 poems about the outside)
1. Patricia Smith: What to Tweak
http://www.wetdryvac.net/November3rdClub/2007/08-07/poetry/smith.html
2. Matt Miller: Tuggin’
http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/poem/2010/01/tuggin_.html
3. Andrea Cohen: To Whom It May Concern
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/238392
4. Frank O'Hara: Autobiographia Literaria
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/autobiographia-literaria/
5. Jack Gilbert: Cherishing What Isn't
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104158053
6. Robert Frost: Range-Finding
http://www.online-literature.com/donne/750/
7. Martha Collins: [white paper #38]
http://witness.blackmountaininstitute.org/issues/volume-24-number-2-2011/white-paper-40/
8. Lloyd Schwartz: Leaves
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/20166
9. Afaa Michael Weaver: Leaves
http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/poem/4813
10. Stephen Jonas: To a Strayed Cat (to be included in February packet)
