A film about “Close Apart: Beatrix Gates, poetry, and Tim Seabrook, etchings” by Matt Shaw commissioned by Word. Blue Hill Literary Arts Festival

CLLOSE APART: Beatrix Gates, poetry, and Tim Seabrook, etchings
A suite of seven etchings by Seabrook spanning Gates’ poems
from 1973 to the present with color washes by Leslie Cummins

A documentary film, commissioned by Word from Blue Hill filmmaker Matt Shaw and underwritten by the Anahata Foundation, features a portrait of the process of making “Close Apart,” presenting poetry by Beatrix Gates of Brooksville with etchings by intaglio printmaker Tim Seabrook and color washes by painter Leslie Cummins, Blue Hill.
Thurs., Oct. 21, at 6 p.m. Register.

COLD READ SHORTs

The ancient Greeks, who gave us theatre and drama, called the first writers for the stage poets. In celebration of National Poetry Month (April), COLD READ SHORTs presents nationally recognized poets reading selections from their dramatic texts written for the stage. From verse dramas, opera libretti, translations of classical dramatic works, and adaptations, we celebrate

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Jesús Aguado is the recent winner of Spain’s Manuel Alcántara Poetry Prize for  the poem, “Intemperie del deseo”/“Weathering of desire.” Read/Listen to bilingual selections, read by Beatrix Gates & Electa Arenal, from The Poems of Vikram Babu, HOST, 2006.

Beatrix Gates, News

2016 Artist-in-Residence at QUEST University in Squamish, BC: Teaching “The Words to Say It: Poetry & Prose.” Artist Residency for “Good Seeing: A Poem of the Full Sky.” 2016 Great Spruce Head Island, Poet-in-Residence for ArtWeek, Penobscot Bay, Maine. 2016 “Acadia: The Land as Teacher,” sponsored by Reversing Falls Sanctuary (RFS) in partnership with Acadia