MANSO HALL READING SERIES

MAKE: POEM An Invitational

The Silas-Kenyon Gallery at The Schoolhouse Center is pleased to present MAKE: POEM, an invitational exhibition from November 17 through December 7, 2000. There will be a reception for the artists on Friday, November 17 from 6-9 PM.

What is the position of form in daily life? Much discussion is given to our reactions to form as authority, the resulting stories, and the meanings we attach. These can become the identifies, habits, and icons which either wake us up or put us to sleep. This exhibition is motivated by a desire to see the bare bones of form, and to experience the purity that can be gotten at so successfully with a poem, which whether spoken or embedded in paper, can seem to exist in a compelling escape from concept.

Perhaps the show can present an opposite to conceptual art. Some writers are visual artists, some make broadsides, most want to make a book or two. Make: Poem is not a discussion of any of those things, though it would not exclude them. These writers have been invited to consider how to see a poem, what we can say about our relationship to form, or how language (and what moves between words) makes a looking space.

Participants include: Melanie Braverman, Michael Burkhart, Michael Cunningham, Nick Flynn, John Hayes, Kathe Izzo, Eileen Myles, Sal Randolph, Frances Richard, Gregg Russo, Mira Schor, Lynn Stanley, Rob Strong , and Laure Weeks.

The Schoolhouse Center is open Thursday - Monday from noon, and always by appointment. For more information please call Michael Carroll(508) 487.4800