California Endowment and Trevor Paglen
Posted by James Breen at 17 July 2008 14:55
Now this california endowment deserves the recognition. I am really impressed by the teamwork. I am curios who the coach was?
This will amaze you, but alas, it is true.
Marin County poet Kay Ryan will become the 16th Poet Laureate of the of the United States, according to the New York Times. In a 1998 essay for Dark Horse, Dana Gioia — California poet and now the Chair of the National Endowment for the Arts — wrote of Ryan: Over the past five years no new poet has so deeply impressed me with her imaginative flare or originality as Kay Ryan. I first saw her poems almost by accident. In 1994 a small publisher gave me a review copy of Flamingo ..[next].
Take a look on this one post on today.
Kay Ryan, 62, has been named the new Poet Laureate. Before her appointment, Ryan was recognized with awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, worth $100,000. Ryan lives in Fairfax, California, with her longtime partner, Carol Adair. From the New York Times story: Dana Gioia, a poet and chair of the National Endowment for the Arts, was an early supporter of Ms. Ryan's work, describing her as the "thoughtful, bemused, ..».
While more information waited to be found, that is what I found:
Trevor Paglen: The Other Night Sky / MATRIX 225 :: until September 14, 2008 :: University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, 2626 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA. We have always contemplated the night sky with awe, envisioning ties to mythic pasts or space-bound futures. The night sky of the present is pregnant with these associations. At the same time, it cloaks in plain sight constellations of technology employed by the United States government's "black world" of ..Read the rest of this post.
Those who keep up to date with plenty of information know for sure that what I need.
Like it or not, things are better day after day.
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