Coming to The Studios of Key West this Friday, 11 April as part of the Robert Frost Poetry Festival’s Free Visual Poetry Event
Readers, writers, and lovers of words are invited to experience a new way to interact with the literary Muse, during this Friday’s Visual Poetry event at The Studios of Key West. The evening of free poetry-making is an official part of the island’s 14th annual Robert Frost Poetry Festival.
“We’ve cooked up a collective experience based on the popular refrigerator magnet poetry method of random and spontaneous combinations of words,” said Martha Barnes, Program Coordinator at The Studios. “Six reclaimed fridge doors will be installed for the one-night event, and these will become the basis for on-the-spot poetic verse.”
Between 6 and 8pm, visitors to the Armory will be asked to contribute 3 nouns, 3 verbs, 3 adjectives, and one wildcard word of any sort. These will be instantly printed and mounted onto magnetic backing, and then added to a central pool of Visual Poetry words. Participants will then craft new spontaneous poems directly onto the refrigerator doors. The entire process will be documented by the staff of The Studios, and the images played out on the large plasma screen in the main hall. Completed poems will also be photographed and then read aloud over the sound system, before clearing the slate to make way for new lines of verse.
“Images, ideas, and spoken words will commingle,” said Barnes, “and everyone is welcome to bring their literary inspiration and spirit of adventure to the Visual Poetry evening.”
To try your hand at spontaneous wordsmithing, or to learn more about Visual Poetry at The Studios of Key West, please contact 296-0458 or see www.tskw.org
