SAM Dreidel Turnip Haiku: Seattle Art Museum's From Art Criticism to Poetry in Five Strokes

As part of Mimi Allin's From Art Criticism to Poetry in Five Strokes at Seattle Art Museum (SAM), several poets participated in part writing exercise, part performance. Given sumi-ed art criticisms, we were asked to create poetry. There was no seated audience, so we were working on our own.
There was a central microphone to broadcast our voices into the forum; we explained how we created the poetry, then we placed our poems, and the art, on the floor of the gallery.
This poem was close to the last one I created, but was one of the first I made a movie of.

For more information on the event itself, and what lead up to it, visit Mimi Allin's blog at:
http://thepoetessatgreenlake.blogspot.com/2009/08/from-art-criticism-to-poetr.... Here's
SAM's description: SAM Word: A.K. "Mimi" Allin
From Art Criticism to Poetry in Five Strokes
August 20, 2009
7:308:30 pm
Third Floor Galleries
A.K. "Mimi" Allin, the Poetess at Green Lake, curates poetry-infused "instigations" in SAMs downtown galleries. During this event, "sumi-e art criticisms" will be distributed to ten poets. Each poet will have three or four works to consider. Poets will sit in the gallery where SAM Next: Corin Hewitt is on view, weighing gesture against text, turning each criticism into a poem. Afterward, they will explain their methods. They will not read their poems. Theyll drop their poems to the floor and go on working. The poets' explanations will be broadcast in the Brotman Forum.
Featuring everyone from spoken word poets to literary figures, these evenings of words as art are at once intimate and engaged.
To see samples of my poetry, visit: http://cyranowriter.wordpress.com

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