Celebrating National Poetry Month at The Phillips Collection: Part III

Last December, we had the honor of listening to one of America’s greatest living poets, Dana Gioia, weave his baritone voice and wonderful words here at the museum. His poem Places to Return from the collection of poems The Gods of Winter (1991) makes me think of many artists and paintings in The Phillips Collection. […]

Celebrating National Poetry Month at The Phillips Collection: Part II

Artists and poets have a long history of creating mutually inspiring dialogues with one another.  At the turn of the 20th century, the extraordinarily lyrical and intuitive Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke comes to mind, who by his own admission was very much influenced by the work of both Rodin and Cézanne. While in Paris […]

Celebrating National Poetry Month at the Phillips Collection: Part I

April is National Poetry Month, and  it gives all of us at The Phillips Collection an opportunity to recognize how this vital art form often intertwines with the visual arts. In very much the same way a great painting can reach into our hearts and communicate so much emotion in the span of just a few […]