Britton Minor found inspiration in cosmic and “giant, seemingly weightless” installations at the Phillips and responded to our call for found poems, working with words from the Intersections contemporary art series page on our website: Lunar Installation Silhouetted planets riff on the moonlit mood The perpetual rotation forces spatial perception above sunrise, nightfall paying homage […]
April is National Poetry Month! Last year, we explored connections between poetry and our permanent collection. This year, we’re asking you to pick up a pen and create your own found poem. Found poetry is the practice of taking words and phrases from a selected existing text and rearranging them into a poem. Using our […]
National Poetry Month and the multitude of pithy one-liners we gotten from our “What is Amelia Thinking” talkback station in the galleries have inspired me to create some free verse poetry. Using submissions from a recent weekend, I have cobbled together 8 entrants for this poetic homage to Amelia van Buren.
