still together?

i hope all have been/are well these past few months (years?)….

here is an interesting question that might be interesting for anyone still interested in being “poets together”…….”what kind of interesting questions one could ask about works of visual art.” Mary Ann raises this question after visiting seven decades of Picasso drawings that recently closed at the Acquavella Galleries.

for anyone (like myself) interested in the poetics of visual art but who does not spend enough time thinking about it, i wonder what influence do works of art have on your own writing practicies? i think for some of us the poem indeed BEGINS with an image of some kind…?

we can post our thoughts here or maybe it would be more fun on twitter (with its aphoristic-algorithmic limits). like this:

What kind of interesting questions can we ask about works of art? what singular detail grabs you and why does that one matter? What do you see more of or more closely the longer you look: what colours, shapes, strokes? What other works: literary or art stuff rush to mind now?

— Mary Ann Caws (@maryanncaws) December 4, 2021

?@maryanncaws Where in a work of art does your eye begin to make contact with your heart or mind? What is urgent or accident, and why or how is it lovely? What asks to remain secret? When and where does a work depart from itself?

— Jared Daniel Fagen (@_godsacres) December 4, 2021

and maybe we can talk also about the surrealism “beyond borders” exhibit at the MEt, which i STILL haven’t seen but will soon for anyone who would want to gather there together, like MAC gathered us here..

best of luck with everyone’s studies/projects/end of semester!!

JDF