Announcing Poultney Poetry Downtown!
Thank you to the poets for sending your poems for our annual Poultney Poetry Downtown. We are happy to say they are now on display on Main Street in Poultney.
Most of the poems are displayed at 188 Main Street in the windows of the Journal Press Building. A few are in the window at Williams True Value Hardware and a couple more are at Hermit Hill Books. Thanks to Bob Mitnik, Bob Williams and Patty McWilliams for placing this wonderful collection of poems in their storefront windows!
Visit the village of Poultney, take a stroll on Main Street, and enjoy reading the poems. Be sure to practice social distancing should a large crowd amass reading poetry at any one location. Be safe, allow space, and wait your turn. Poems will be on display the whole month of April and into early May. We will also contine to share poems here on our blog.
We invite the artists among us to respond to any of the poems with your own art: painting, drawing, sculpture, collage... any medium. Share your art with us by emailing us at stonevalleyartscenter@gmail.com
Once the virus is behind us we can safely gather at SVA at Fox Hill for a live poetry reading and exhibit of the corresponding works of art. Meanwhile, stay safe, read poems, write poems, share poems, make art, be kind, and be well!
"Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry." - Mary Oliver
Many thanks to the followinfg poets for their work and participation in this year's Poultney Poetry Downtown! We celebrate your voices and creativity!
Poultney Poetry Downtown 2020
"Spring Inventory" Pamela Ahlen
"Art That Time Sculpts" Pamela Ahlen
"On Hatred" B Amore
"The Days are Lost, Counting" B Amore
"Great Expectations" Marcia Angermann
"Early Morning Timbrels" Peggy Brightman
" From the Thicket" Peggy Brightman
"Red, White, and Blue?" Toby Bush
" Sugar Shack Squirrel" Toby Bush
"ALONG THE DOUBLE YELLOW" Vivina Ciolli
" WALK IN EARLY MORNING YARD" Vivina Ciolli
"Shameless Hymn" James Crews
"Free Day" James Crews
"Beckoning to Spring" Bob Eberth
"Dreamtime" Bob Eberth
"Dawn" Debby Franzoni
"His Silence" Debby Franzoni
"Parity" Alice Wolf Gilborn
"Dead of Night Dances Differently" Ruth Hamilton
"A View From The Bridge" Ruth Hamilton
"IN LOCO COLLEGIUM" Burnham Holmes
"POETRY MONTH OR THE CRUELEST MONTH—APRIL" Burnham Holmes
"Consequences" Wilma Ann Johnson
"Breaking Forth" Wilma Ann Johnson
"Princess Grace of Lake Sunapee" Luke Krueger
"Autumnal Burlesque" Luke Krueger
"Sarah's Moon" David Mook
"The Path of Poetry" David Mook
"Journey’s End" David Quesnel
"Hardscrabble Rural, a Poem" David Quesnel
"HIDDEN TREASURE" David Rynick
“D O W N sizing” Eileen Strickland-Holtham
“Childhood 1960’s” Eileen Strickland-Holtham
"The Turtle" Joyce Thomas
" Nocturne" Joyce Thomas
Most of the poems are displayed at 188 Main Street in the windows of the Journal Press Building. A few are in the window at Williams True Value Hardware and a couple more are at Hermit Hill Books. Thanks to Bob Mitnik, Bob Williams and Patty McWilliams for placing this wonderful collection of poems in their storefront windows!
Visit the village of Poultney, take a stroll on Main Street, and enjoy reading the poems. Be sure to practice social distancing should a large crowd amass reading poetry at any one location. Be safe, allow space, and wait your turn. Poems will be on display the whole month of April and into early May. We will also contine to share poems here on our blog.
We invite the artists among us to respond to any of the poems with your own art: painting, drawing, sculpture, collage... any medium. Share your art with us by emailing us at stonevalleyartscenter@gmail.com
Once the virus is behind us we can safely gather at SVA at Fox Hill for a live poetry reading and exhibit of the corresponding works of art. Meanwhile, stay safe, read poems, write poems, share poems, make art, be kind, and be well!
"Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry." - Mary Oliver
Many thanks to the followinfg poets for their work and participation in this year's Poultney Poetry Downtown! We celebrate your voices and creativity!
Poultney Poetry Downtown 2020
"Spring Inventory" Pamela Ahlen
"Art That Time Sculpts" Pamela Ahlen
"On Hatred" B Amore
"The Days are Lost, Counting" B Amore
"Great Expectations" Marcia Angermann
"Early Morning Timbrels" Peggy Brightman
" From the Thicket" Peggy Brightman
"Red, White, and Blue?" Toby Bush
" Sugar Shack Squirrel" Toby Bush
"ALONG THE DOUBLE YELLOW" Vivina Ciolli
" WALK IN EARLY MORNING YARD" Vivina Ciolli
"Shameless Hymn" James Crews
"Free Day" James Crews
"Beckoning to Spring" Bob Eberth
"Dreamtime" Bob Eberth
"Dawn" Debby Franzoni
"His Silence" Debby Franzoni
"Parity" Alice Wolf Gilborn
"Dead of Night Dances Differently" Ruth Hamilton
"A View From The Bridge" Ruth Hamilton
"IN LOCO COLLEGIUM" Burnham Holmes
"POETRY MONTH OR THE CRUELEST MONTH—APRIL" Burnham Holmes
"Consequences" Wilma Ann Johnson
"Breaking Forth" Wilma Ann Johnson
"Princess Grace of Lake Sunapee" Luke Krueger
"Autumnal Burlesque" Luke Krueger
"Sarah's Moon" David Mook
"The Path of Poetry" David Mook
"Journey’s End" David Quesnel
"Hardscrabble Rural, a Poem" David Quesnel
"HIDDEN TREASURE" David Rynick
“D O W N sizing” Eileen Strickland-Holtham
“Childhood 1960’s” Eileen Strickland-Holtham
"The Turtle" Joyce Thomas
" Nocturne" Joyce Thomas
More Poems for National Poetry Month!
In recognition of National Potery Month in April. We will continue to share the moving words of our local SVA poets. Today's poem is from David Rynick. Enjoy!
"By making us stop for a moment, poetry gives us an opportunity to think about ourselves
as human beings on this planet and what we mean to each other.” - Rita Dove
HIDDEN TREASURE
For my mother on her 90th birthday
A small boy walks home from school
alone, slowly shuffling and kicking at
stones along the way. Head down,
he evenly sees what has been cast aside;
appreciating that which is of no use.
Now and then, something shiny
catches his eye: a colorful bottle cap,
a soda can flattened by a passing car,
an especially round stone. He stops
and stoops to examine more closely,
forgetting for a moment, his destination.
What intrigues him still, he picks up
and carries home for presentation
to his waiting mother. She greets
his little bits of the world as the treasures
they now are and praises him
for his careful eyes and tender heart.
Her delight with him and his world
becomes the treasure that guides
and sustains him across oceans
and decades as he walks
the many roads of his life.
By David Rynick
"By making us stop for a moment, poetry gives us an opportunity to think about ourselves
as human beings on this planet and what we mean to each other.” - Rita Dove
HIDDEN TREASURE
For my mother on her 90th birthday
A small boy walks home from school
alone, slowly shuffling and kicking at
stones along the way. Head down,
he evenly sees what has been cast aside;
appreciating that which is of no use.
Now and then, something shiny
catches his eye: a colorful bottle cap,
a soda can flattened by a passing car,
an especially round stone. He stops
and stoops to examine more closely,
forgetting for a moment, his destination.
What intrigues him still, he picks up
and carries home for presentation
to his waiting mother. She greets
his little bits of the world as the treasures
they now are and praises him
for his careful eyes and tender heart.
Her delight with him and his world
becomes the treasure that guides
and sustains him across oceans
and decades as he walks
the many roads of his life.
By David Rynick
Celebrate National Poetry Month with SVA!
April marks National Poetry Month. At SVA, we want to share the prose of our local poets. Let their inspiring words, give us moving reflection and bring us beauty and comfort during this trying time. We will soon be posting the poems throughout town so people can enjoy them as they walk down Main Street in Poultney. If you have a poem you'd like to share with us, send it to stonevalleyartscenter@gmail.com.
To start off the month long poetry celebration, we share a poem from our own David Mook. Enjoy!
"I have nothing to say/ and I am saying it/ and that is poetry/ as I need it." - John Cage
The Path of Poetry
My shadow tells me there is light,
and so then, all morning, I follow it.
Finally, a high-noon moment of clarity,
truth, always there right under my feet.
But truth cannot save me. Confusion,
like my shadow, has a mind of its own
and soon returns. No rest, it seems eager
to reach out and join the coming darkness.
And so it often goes with writing poems.
You lay down a path of broken lines
and follow them down the page,
trying to say the unsayable.
Just when you think you've got it,
you realize that another line, a next
word even, will obscure all meaning.
And still, you cannot help yourself.
So you arrive back where you started
only to discover that while you were gone
nothing changed, yet everything is different.
The end is always a good place to begin again.
By David Mook - Poultney, VT
To start off the month long poetry celebration, we share a poem from our own David Mook. Enjoy!
"I have nothing to say/ and I am saying it/ and that is poetry/ as I need it." - John Cage
The Path of Poetry
My shadow tells me there is light,
and so then, all morning, I follow it.
Finally, a high-noon moment of clarity,
truth, always there right under my feet.
But truth cannot save me. Confusion,
like my shadow, has a mind of its own
and soon returns. No rest, it seems eager
to reach out and join the coming darkness.
And so it often goes with writing poems.
You lay down a path of broken lines
and follow them down the page,
trying to say the unsayable.
Just when you think you've got it,
you realize that another line, a next
word even, will obscure all meaning.
And still, you cannot help yourself.
So you arrive back where you started
only to discover that while you were gone
nothing changed, yet everything is different.
The end is always a good place to begin again.
By David Mook - Poultney, VT
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We find ourselves in hard times for our nation and world. At Stone Valley Arts, we want to let you know you're in our thoughts and hearts. As your local arts center even though we can not open our doors and invite you into our gallery during this coronavirus pandemic we are committed to sharing positive vibes with our community. We wish to inspire our stong artistic group to connect each other through starting a blog. We will share positive news and encourage you to share with us what you are facing, what you are creating. Even though we can not see each other face to face we ask you to send us imagines of your new work, photos of nature your capture, new poems, and inspiring stories of neighbors coming together to help others. We hope this interaction with provide comfort to our community as we are in this together keeping the greater good in mind in the coming weeks.
Friends, we send you strength, hope, comfort and inspiration.
If you have something to feature on our blog, email us at: stonevalleyartscenter@gmail.com .
While you're at home you may wish to take a virtual tour of one of our amazing museums to see highlights of their collections. Follow this link to explore the online galleries of museums such as:
National Gallery of Art: Washington, D.C.
Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C.
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
American Museum of Natural History, New York City
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
High Museum of Art, Atlanta
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Friends, we send you strength, hope, comfort and inspiration.
If you have something to feature on our blog, email us at: stonevalleyartscenter@gmail.com .
While you're at home you may wish to take a virtual tour of one of our amazing museums to see highlights of their collections. Follow this link to explore the online galleries of museums such as:
National Gallery of Art: Washington, D.C.
Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C.
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
American Museum of Natural History, New York City
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
High Museum of Art, Atlanta
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico
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