Poems at L'Enfant Gallery
I made art at a Real Classy Art Gallery!
Last Saturday, I wrote live typewriter poetry in the window of L’Enfant Gallery in Georgetown.
I was there, during Georgetown Art Week, to create a collaborative piece of mixed-media art with my new friend Christina — the event was called “Painting with a Poet.”
While I wrote spontaneous poems for gallery visitors, Christina painted a pair of canvases with a sunset (based on a picture I took on the Sonoma Coast), then layered on a drawing of Mercury and four poem fragments we selected.
The theme was “paths” — both taken and untaken. We included a fragment of Robert Frost, a fragment of Sylvia Plath, and then one original poem by each of us. The pair of poem-paintings will diverge, as Robert Frost famously did — one will live in Christina’s Wicked Game Art Gallery, and the other will live on my bus.
In addition to this mixed-medium piece, I also got the chance to write 11 spontaneous poems. I’m really happy with how they turned out, especially with the challenge of the Real Classy Art Gallery. Here are the first 3, written in under 5 minutes each for gallery-goers:
I wrote 8 more poems, only a few feet away from a multi-million dollar marble statue! Perhaps, since I’m a Serious Artist™ now, you’ll upgrade to a paid subscription so you can read the remaining 8 poems below. After all, each poem individually is worth more than a single month of Beatin’ Paths! That’s a damn good deal ;)
