Visiting Artists and Writers
 Brian Belott |
 Gregory Botts |
 Anne Rochette |
 Ed Smith |
Rising in Perilous Hope
from Colors Passing Through Us
By Marge Piercy
that will not flow through my fingers?
What words can I say that will catch
in your mind like burrs, chiggers that burrow?
If my touch could heal, I would lay my hands
on your bent head and bellow prayers.
If my words could change the weather
or the government or the way the world
twists and guts us, fast or slow,
what could I do but what I do now?
I fit words together and say them;
it is a given like the color of my eyes.
I hope it makes a small difference, as
I hope the drought will break and the morning
come rising out of the ocean wearing
a cloak of clean sweet mist and swirling terns.
Excerpt from The Invention of Streetlights
from Goest
By Cole Swenson:
And Venice started in 1687 with a bell upon the hearing of which, we all in unison exit,
match in hand, and together strike them against an upper tooth and touch the tiny flame to anything, and when times get rough (crime up, etc.) all we have to do is throw oil out upon the canals to make the lighting uncommonly extensive. Sometimes we do it just to shock the rest of Europe, and at other times because we find it beautiful.
October Visiting Artists and Writers
Willard Boepple
Chris Martin
Pattiann Rogers
Nina Katchadorian
Lois Dodd
Major Jackson