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Who We Are – Poetry for Trash ©
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How Much Trash is Poetry Worth? Stations & Locations. And anyone who picks up trash! A couple people to note as far as operations:. John-Michael Peter Bloomquist: Founder and Director. John Freyer: Lead Advisor. Big thanks to the following organizations:. VCU English Department, for funding and support. Middle of Broad Studios, for a design grant and help. The Hope Builders, for design support. The Crestmont Boys and Girls Club, for class programing and adopting a station. Contributing Poets and Artists:.
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Evolution of the Station – Poetry for Trash ©
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How Much Trash is Poetry Worth? Stations & Locations. Evolution of the Station. March 30, 2016. How much trash will this sign pick up? Thanks to Middle of Broad Studios. And my design crew,Aprille Zammit, Olivia Walthall, and Caroline Norton, for building this sign, and Ellwood Thomson. For donating the bags. Here is looking back:. I made this with a sign post, pickle jar, and a plastic bottle for the bag dispenser (painting done by Ashley Cho). A plastic sleeve and some wire. Leave a Reply Cancel reply.
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Poem and Candy, Halloween! – Poetry for Trash ©
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How Much Trash is Poetry Worth? Stations & Locations. Poem and Candy, Halloween! November 9, 2015. This year for halloween I decided to go to the parade on Oregon Hill and hand out some poems by Poe, Blake, Dickinson, and Booth that could be considered halloween themed: there were dead things in the poems. I wrapped the poems in candy. “Is the candy in the poem a metaphor? I wish I could have given this guy a poetry for trash sign to carry around. Quite the dynamic cast of characters here! While I love d...
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Poetry for Trash © – Page 3 – How Much Trash is Poetry Worth?
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How Much Trash is Poetry Worth? Stations & Locations. Sappho and Lake Michigan. August 12, 2015. I found this orange copy of Sappho in a pile of books that the English department of Indiana University was giving away for free, plus some other supplies, like plastic sheets that I could use to set up Poetry for Trash stations. This summer my partner Victoria and I took a bus from… Read More. June 12, 2015. Hellip; Read More. Poetry for Trash @ the Boys and Girls Club. Evolution of the Station.
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Belle Isle – Poetry for Trash ©
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How Much Trash is Poetry Worth? Stations & Locations. October 28, 2015. The morning was overcast. My friend, the artist Dan Sheets, was at my door at around 9 am with his daughter in a stroller. “I’ve been up all night cause she was having a hard time sleeping, so I made 17 of these magpies,” he said, surprising me a plastic bag full of these gorgeous magpies. To Paint the Portrait of a Bird. First of all paint a cage. Its door standing open. Then lean the canvas up against a tree. Or in the woods. And t...
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March 2016 – Poetry for Trash ©
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How Much Trash is Poetry Worth? Stations & Locations. Evolution of the Station. March 30, 2016. How much trash will this sign pick up? Thanks to Middle of Broad Studios and my design crew,Aprille Zammit, Olivia Walthall, and Caroline Norton, for building this sign, and Ellwood Thomson for donating the bags. Here is looking back: I made this with a sign post, pickle jar, and a plastic bottle… Read More. Poetry for Trash @ the Boys and Girls Club. Recent blog post published by Ecotone, Much thanks.
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November 2015 – Poetry for Trash ©
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How Much Trash is Poetry Worth? Stations & Locations. November 27, 2015. Three Steps: Mauss summarizes that gift giving is biased on three actions: to give, to receive, and to reciprocate, hence, the three steps of Poetry for Trash: 1. Pick a poem 2. Pick up the Trash it is worth 3. Add your own poem Step one: Pick a poem “Where there is no… Read More. Poem and Candy, Halloween! November 9, 2015. 8221; some people would ask.… Read More. Poetry for Trash @ the Boys and Girls Club. Evolution of the Station.
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May 2016 – Poetry for Trash ©
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How Much Trash is Poetry Worth? Stations & Locations. Recent blog post published by Ecotone, Much thanks. May 20, 2016. From the editors: As lovers of poetry and literary crusaders against pollution, we were so interested to hear about this new project, Poetry for Trash. We asked founder and director John-Michael Peter Bloomquist to tell us about the project, his inspiration, and what poetry and trash have in common. Here’s what he had to say: … Read More. Poetry for Trash @ the Boys and Girls Club.
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The Three Steps – Poetry for Trash ©
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How Much Trash is Poetry Worth? Stations & Locations. November 27, 2015. Mauss summarizes that gift giving is biased on three actions: to give, to receive, and to reciprocate, hence, the three steps of Poetry for Trash:. 1 Pick a poem. 2 Pick up the Trash it is worth. 3 Add your own poem. Step one: Pick a poem. To me, this is the great gift of poetry and art: we have always belonged here. Here is a poem by David Wagner about finding where we belong. Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you.
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Poetry for Trash © – Page 2 – How Much Trash is Poetry Worth?
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How Much Trash is Poetry Worth? Stations & Locations. I’ve lived out tens of thousands of years. September 29, 2015. A poem from Han Shan I’ve lived out tens of thousands of years on cold Mountain. Given to the seasons, I vanished among forests and cascades, gazed into things so utterly themselves. No one ventures up into all these cliffs hidden forever in white mist and cloud. It’s just me, thin grass my sleeping… Read More. Oh Jack, you came back. September 26, 2015. September 25, 2015. Without the sil...
