The Massachusetts Poetry Festival is looking for visual artists who would like to have their work prominently displayed at the festival. The stipulation for display is that the artwork must relate to poetry. Check in with January O’Neil with your proposals at january@masspoetry.org. 
Last year’s festival had a wonderful visual installation – a Poetry Dress. The Poetry Dress was a collaborative art project featuring work by established and emerging poets as a way to showcase the layers of female voices in contemporary poetry.
The project was curated by Danielle Jones-Pruett and included work from 71 women writers. The Poetry Dress is now installed at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Jones-Pruett is also an award-winning poet.
Perhaps the artwork can be another installation, or perhaps it can be a poetic Sisyphus rolling a mountainous poem up a hill, or maybe it will be a well-wrought urn inscribed with poetic phrases. Perhaps it will be representational; perhaps it will be abstract. That is up to the artist. 
Poets, if you have artist friends who might be interested in this project, have them get in touch with January at january@masspoetry.org.
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