It has become something of a tradition that each New Hampshire Poet laureate create a project that reflects her or his approach to celebrating poetry in general and highlighting New Hampshire poets in the process. In 2007, laureate Patricia Fargnoli, inaugurated a bi-monthly feature: ” At my request, The NH Arts Council is providing me […]
Rockingham County Courthouse
Another Percent for Arts grant allowed me to collaborate with painter Katherine Doyle, putting words in her canvas depicting a tranquil mountain landscape. It hangs in the reception area of the Rockingham County Courthouse. She wanted both her painting and the poem to impart a sense of calm in what is, for almost everyone who […]
Barrington Community Playground
Local artist Diane St Jean illustrated my poem on a panel of the fence that surrounds our new playground. Night Swim in Scruton Pond Mars floats upside down in the midnight pond as though the lacquered sky tipped by our angle of vision let slide that one planet while the stars still depend on the […]
Sunapee Mandala
In 1985, the sculptor Emile Birch won a competition, sponsored by the League of NH Craftsmen and NH State Parks and funded by Percent for Arts, to design a sculpture celebrating the 50th anniversary of Sunapee State Park. “Sunapee Mandala” incorporates the poem I wrote in collaboration with Emile. LEAVE YOUR SHADOW HERE […]
