Poetry Reading at Bihl Haus Arts
My friend, P.C. McKinnon, has fowarded me the information below:
Poetry Reading:
JIM LAVILLA-HAVELIN
Spaces and Places: Poetry of Place at Bihl Haus Arts
Wednesday, May 2, 2007, 6:30 pm
Dear Friends of Bihl Haus Arts,
Please join us on Wednesday, May 2nd at 6:30 pm for “Spaces and Places: Poetry of Place” by Jim LaVilla Havelin, a poetic response to Jenny Dev's silk batiks of 21 special San Antonio places (on view at Bihl Haus Arts through May 13).
As a poet much of Jim’s work is grounded in a sense of place, and in poetry as a way of coming to know and care about a place. He admits that he is, perhaps, living proof that a poet of place can move. In addition to the poems based on Jenny's batiks, Jim will read work from upstate New York, Staten Island, Cleveland, and from his move from the city to the countryside out in Lytle. In much the same way that Jenny has worked to create images that capture the essence of the places, while also revealing what those places evoke for her, Jim hopes to "get it right" for others who care deeply about that particular place--the Central Library, the Courtyard of the McNay, Earl Abel's--while still asserting what makes each place important to him. For Jim, the sense of place goes deeper than poems that describe, the sense of place seeps into all the words, like dye into silk.
Jim LaVilla-Havelin is the director of the Young Artist Programs of the Southwest School of Art & Craft, a position he has held since June 1997. He came to San Antonio as the founding director of the San Antonio Children’s Museum. He has taught adults, children, and inter-generational groups in museums, schools and at the university level at UTSA, University of the Incarnate Word, and Bank Street College of Education. He received his B.A. from Empire State College in American Studies, and an M.S. in Education from the Museum Leadership Program at Bank Street College. He is the author of three books, Rites of Passage (Charon Press), and What the Diamond Does Is Hold It All in and Simon's Masterpiece (White Pine Press). His poetry has appeared in numerous anthologies, including Is This Forever or What? and Between Heaven and Texas.
Please join us for what we believe will be a magical evening, which will begin with a brief gallery talk by Jenny on her silk batiks, followed by Jim's eloquent poems of place.
Kellen
Dr. Kellen Kee McIntyre, Executive Director
Bihl Haus Arts
2803 Fredericksburg Rd.
San Antonio, TX 78201
(210) 732-3502
kellenkee@swbell.net
Poetry Reading:
JIM LAVILLA-HAVELIN
Spaces and Places: Poetry of Place at Bihl Haus Arts
Wednesday, May 2, 2007, 6:30 pm
Dear Friends of Bihl Haus Arts,
Please join us on Wednesday, May 2nd at 6:30 pm for “Spaces and Places: Poetry of Place” by Jim LaVilla Havelin, a poetic response to Jenny Dev's silk batiks of 21 special San Antonio places (on view at Bihl Haus Arts through May 13).
As a poet much of Jim’s work is grounded in a sense of place, and in poetry as a way of coming to know and care about a place. He admits that he is, perhaps, living proof that a poet of place can move. In addition to the poems based on Jenny's batiks, Jim will read work from upstate New York, Staten Island, Cleveland, and from his move from the city to the countryside out in Lytle. In much the same way that Jenny has worked to create images that capture the essence of the places, while also revealing what those places evoke for her, Jim hopes to "get it right" for others who care deeply about that particular place--the Central Library, the Courtyard of the McNay, Earl Abel's--while still asserting what makes each place important to him. For Jim, the sense of place goes deeper than poems that describe, the sense of place seeps into all the words, like dye into silk.
Jim LaVilla-Havelin is the director of the Young Artist Programs of the Southwest School of Art & Craft, a position he has held since June 1997. He came to San Antonio as the founding director of the San Antonio Children’s Museum. He has taught adults, children, and inter-generational groups in museums, schools and at the university level at UTSA, University of the Incarnate Word, and Bank Street College of Education. He received his B.A. from Empire State College in American Studies, and an M.S. in Education from the Museum Leadership Program at Bank Street College. He is the author of three books, Rites of Passage (Charon Press), and What the Diamond Does Is Hold It All in and Simon's Masterpiece (White Pine Press). His poetry has appeared in numerous anthologies, including Is This Forever or What? and Between Heaven and Texas.
Please join us for what we believe will be a magical evening, which will begin with a brief gallery talk by Jenny on her silk batiks, followed by Jim's eloquent poems of place.
Kellen
Dr. Kellen Kee McIntyre, Executive Director
Bihl Haus Arts
2803 Fredericksburg Rd.
San Antonio, TX 78201
(210) 732-3502
kellenkee@swbell.net
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