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The Wind Blows Through the Doors of My Heart

May 14, 2010 Leave a Comment

Rebecca Kaiser Gibson joins poets honoring Deborah Digges; Sue Murad returns to Buried; Cam Terwilliger in print and at Emerson Deborah Digges was a renowned poet and memoirist whose life ended far too soon at age 59, in 2009. A resident of Amherst, she taught at Tufts University and wrote lyrical poetry and prose that won her, among other honors, the Kingsley Tufts … [Read more...]

Congratulations to Mass. Guggenheim Fellows

May 6, 2010 Leave a Comment

Congratulations to all Massachusetts artists and scholars who received 2010 Guggenheim Fellowships! We note in particular: Shelby Lee Adams of Pittsfield (photographer), Paul Harding of Georgetown (writer), Salvatore Scibona of Provincetown (writer), and Steven Kazuo Takasugi of Waban (composer). Stray notes/observations: According to the Guggenheim website, the … [Read more...]

Exports/Imports: a round-up

May 5, 2010 Leave a Comment

Exported (temporarily): If you spent last Wednesday searching up and down Massachusetts for master balafon player Balla Kouyate, here's why you couldn't find him. Balla, a recent Artist Fellow in Traditional Arts, was in D.C. performing at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, and later at the Kennedy Center's Millennium Stage. Our sibling blog, Keepers of … [Read more...]

Fellows Notes – May

April 30, 2010 Leave a Comment

We compile a monthly list of presentations, honors, publications, and events featuring past and present MCC Artist Fellows & Finalists. As you'll see, the news is good - not just about these award-winning artists, but also about the breadth and vitality of contemporary arts throughout the Commonwealth. Jane D. Marsching (Photography Finalist '03) and Joshua Meyer … [Read more...]

Poetry Month: Patrick Donnelly and Ben Berman

April 30, 2010 Leave a Comment

It's April 30, the last day of Poetry Month. Or is it the first day in the rest of your POETRY LIFE? (Just agree it's the second one; it'll make me happy.) We thought we'd cap our celebrations by sharing poems by two outstanding past Poetry Fellows: Patrick Donnelly's Oxygen Catastrophe and Ben Berman's Endings. Patrick is a Deerfield poet with one published collection, … [Read more...]

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