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Poetry

Kate Abbott
Awardwinning poet Ross Gay read from his work on a spring day at Bennington College.
Ross Gay / Photo by Natasha Komoda
Writing

Questing for poets on spring nights — #Berkshireweekend

April 20, 2023
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Why is April called poetry month? Why now, in a precarious early spring? Ross Gay and Robert Hass remind me that poetry is physical. Immediate. Close as skin or rain on birchbark.

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A closeup of the bright rooms in Izhar Patkin's, 'The Wandering Veil,' a work created in collaboration with the poet Agha Shahid Ali, at Mass MoCA in 2014.
Ishar Patkin / Mass MoCA
Writing

Rambling with poets in the hills

April 19, 2023
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In all my years in the Berkshires, I’ve talked with poets in all kinds of times and places — on spring nights after readings, on quiet days in writing residencies, in bars and meadows and coffee shops … In honor of National Poetry Month, here are some who move me strongly.

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Parvati Ramchandani smiles, sitting in Edith Wharton's library, in the week when she and Cat Wei and Mario Giannone come to the Mount as writers in residence.
The Mount
Writing

Writers at the Mount move between worlds

March 30, 2023
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Cat Wei invokes the energy of a summer night on a raw almost-spring day, as she and Parvati Ramchandani and Mario Giannone meet in Edith Wharton’s innermost rooms.

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A Black man plays the cello softly as a woman leans on his shoulder at dusk, in a photograph in Lorenzo Baker's new work at MCLA. Press image courtesy of the artist
Lorenzo Baker
Visual Arts

New Orleans poets inspire North Adams art

December 7, 2022
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Los Angeles artist Lorenzo Baker sets a man and woman resting together, and a collective of Black poets from 1845, at the center of his new installation with MCLA’s Art Lab.

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Internationally acclaimed Bharatanatyam dancer and choreographer Mythili Prakash, from Los Angeles, performs with expressive hands in a golden glow. Press photo courtesy of Jacobs Pillow Dance Festival
Photo by Jorge Vismara
Dance

Kali takes courage in the 21st century

June 29, 2022
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The bass hums low, and a woman is dancing — Mythili Prakash performs contemporary movement in a form more than a thousand years old.

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The Maine coast glows a few minutes past sunrise.
Photo by Kate Abbott
Writing

Men on the Amistad speak out in Kevin Young’s ‘Ardency’

April 18, 2022
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Fifty-three people of the Mendi from Sierra Leone captured a slave ship. Each one of them had been kidnapped from a rice field or a house where he slept beside his wife.

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A closeup of the bright rooms in Izhar Patkin's, 'The Wandering Veil,' a work created in collaboration with the poet Agha Shahid Ali, at Mass MoCA in 2014.
Ishar Patkin / Mass MoCA
Visual Arts

Izhar Patkin honors poet Agha Shahid Ali in light (throwback)

April 14, 2022
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On a spring night, Izhar Patkin’s ‘Veil Suite’ fills the long gallery with rooms of translucent paintings, illuminating Agha Shahid Ali’s poetry.

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Families gather to listen to Music After Hours at the Mount, Edith Wharton's historic house in Lenox.
Photo by Sarah Kenyon
Writing

Charles Coe brings poetry to Close Encounters (flashback)

March 30, 2022
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Cambridge poet Charles Coe can write with the crowd-surging energy of hot summer nights, soul and sweat … and with the warmth of holding hands.

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Writers Liana Mack, Yasmine Ameli and Ella Jacobson join Nynke Dorhout in the library at the Mount.
Photo by Nicholas Smith-Koblitz
Writing

Writers revive lost languages at the Mount

March 23, 2022
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The stories move from inlets of red mangrove and sea grass to worn tarmac in northern Alaska on long nights, and a family looking across city skylines between Tehran and Boston …

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Phillip B. Williams, nationally awardwinning poet and professor of Literature at Bennington College, has published his newest book, Mutiny: a rebellion, a subversion, an onslaught. Press photo courtesy of Bennington College.
Phillip B. Williams
Writing

Phillip B. Williams reforms worlds in ‘Mutiny’

October 8, 2021
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Nationally awardwinning poet Phillip B. Williams has published his newest book, moving through a space where myth and story and lived experience charge the air — a place of persistence, anger and beauty.

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