Tuesday, May 31, 2011

"I READ THE NEWS TODAY, OH BOY!" _ A Poetry and Art Collaboration

"I READ THE NEWS TODAY, OH BOY!"
Poets and Visual Artists Respond the News in a Creative Collaboration of New Works

A Unique Media Exhibit
The Benicia Public Library/Marilyn O'Rourke Gallery
June 22-July 29 2011

Twenty-eight poets and visual artists (including myself) were selceted from a national competition by Benicia Poet Laureate, Ronna Leon, to colllaborate in a creative response to the news.

I am paired with Photographer, Rebecca Martinez, and we are responding to a news story on the topic of Politics and Immigration. We are responding to a NY Times story from March 29, 2011, titled "Arriving as Pregnant Tourists, Leaving With American Babies"

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