The Florida Humanities Council sponsors events statewide and year round presenting Florida culture and arts. For example, on December 4, Robert Wrigley and Campbell McGrath will be reading and discussing their work at FIU's Biscayne Bay Campus in North Miami.
For a calendar of events, go to the Florida Humanities Council's website.
Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts
Monday, December 01, 2008
Wednesday, June 04, 2008
Florida Radio Programs
The Florida Humanities Council's June 2008 Radio Programs are now available online:
Four Rivers and a Swamp
Walkable Urbanism
Poet David Kirby
The Longest Canoe
A year's worth of programs are archived on their website if four just isn't enough!
Four Rivers and a Swamp
Walkable Urbanism
Poet David Kirby
The Longest Canoe
A year's worth of programs are archived on their website if four just isn't enough!
Tuesday, October 09, 2007
Elizabeth Bishop's Florida
The state with the prettiest name,
the state that floats in brackish water,
held together by mangrave roots
that bear while living oysters in clusters,
and when dead strew white swamps with skeletons,
dotted as if bombarded, with green hummocks
like ancient cannon-balls sprouting grass.
These are the first few lines of Florida, by Elizabeth Bishop. Bishop was a twentieth-century American poet, who lived and worked in Key West in the 1930s and 1940s. She is also the topic of a Florida Humanities Council-sponsored lecture to be offered in Key West in December 2007.
the state that floats in brackish water,
held together by mangrave roots
that bear while living oysters in clusters,
and when dead strew white swamps with skeletons,
dotted as if bombarded, with green hummocks
like ancient cannon-balls sprouting grass.
These are the first few lines of Florida, by Elizabeth Bishop. Bishop was a twentieth-century American poet, who lived and worked in Key West in the 1930s and 1940s. She is also the topic of a Florida Humanities Council-sponsored lecture to be offered in Key West in December 2007.
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
"Song of the Hillsborough"
One of my favorite public art pieces in Tampa is at the Jimmie B. Keel Regional Library on Bearss Avenue. "Song of the Hillsborough" is a poem about the Hillsborough River, written by Tampa's poet laureate James Tokley, and it is also a series of panels painted by local folk artist Mr. B (Jack Beverland). These panels are arrayed throughout the library with stanzas of the poem below. While the art really should be seen in person to be truly appreciated -- Mr. B. uses puff paint so there is a textural 3-D quality to his work -- you can also enjoy their joint efforts on the library's website. (link to "Song of the Hillsborough," use the green arrows under the picture to go to the next frame)
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