"A metal spoon with a lathe-turned wooden handle. A toolkit so tiny it fits in your hand. An album cover from a Chuck Berry record. These are among the significant objects chosen by 22 senior poets that reflect their life experiences: work, people, place, wisdom, identity. On Tuesday, Nov. 4, the poets will gather at Mother Foucault's Book Shop in Portland to read the poems,"
"Lommasson and poet Willa Schneberg created the 90-minute event combining photos and poetry. The two have known each other since serving on the Visual Chronicle of Portland selection committee to choose art for city spaces a number of years ago. Schneberg gathered the poets, and Lommasson created 19-by-13-inch digital prints of the objects. The poems are handwritten in the white space around photos of the mementos, to be projected in slides as poets read aloud."
Twenty-two senior poets chose personal objects—such as a metal spoon, a tiny toolkit, and an album cover—that embody life experiences of work, people, place, wisdom and identity. Photographs of the artifacts by Jim Lommasson will be paired with handwritten poems and projected as slides while poets read aloud. The 90-minute event, What We Hold & Leave Behind, will take place at Mother Foucault's Book Shop on Nov. 4 as part of the Cover to Cover programming leading up to the Portland Book Festival. The project presents 19-by-13-inch digital prints of objects and emphasizes a visual-poetry synergy that enhances meaning. Willa Schneberg and Jim Lommasson organized the presentation.
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