Pamela Hart, Strange Geometry

American, playing from South Salem, NY, USA

Pamela Hart is writer-in-residence at the Katonah Museum of Art where she manages a visual literacy arts in education program. She was awarded an NEA poetry fellowship in 2013 and is completing a manuscript of poems, titled Penelope at the Shooting Range. She was a poetry fellow at the SUNY Purchase College Writers Center in 2011. She has served as a mentor for the Afghan Women's Writing Project for the past three years. Toadlily Press published her chapbook, The End of the Body. Her work has been published in a variety of journals, including The Cortland Review, Qarrtsiluni, Lumina, The Heron Tree Review, O-Dark-Thirty, Kalliope and others.

Thoughts on the Telephone process

Responding to one work of art by making another gets me to look closer, to see more. I thought about Wallace Steven's Anecdote of the Jar as I considered this sculpture by the stream. His Tennessee hill is part of this telephone conversation too. I like that he's around.