My poem on Arthur Dove’s “Long Island” painting (1940) is featured in Northport Poetry Path (Summer 2024).
For more about the Path, check out the Northport Journal’s great feature article.
An ongoing series of Yoga Classes at the Heckscher Museum - Next class in August 17, 2024!
The Friends of Cedarmere, William Cullen Bryant’s historic home on Long Island, have announced that Jesse Curran has been named 2023 Poet-in-Residence. William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) was a poet, journalist, and long-time editor of the New York Evening Post.
Curran was selected by judge Judith Baumel, a poet, translator, critic and retired founding director of the Adelphi University’s Creative Writing Program.
Jesse Curran’s interests, poetry and writing on art, ecology and literature correspond well with William Cullen Bryant’s poetry centered on the natural world and his support of American artists and the founding of art organizations, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Press Release in The New York Almanack: https://www.newyorkalmanack.com/2023/06/william-cullen-bryants-cedarmere/
In Spring 2020, I was awarded a grant from the Oak Spring Garden Foundation to explore connections between the early days of the pandemic and the natural world. My project was called, “Before the Soil Settles: Quarantine Acts.” In the link below you can read my interview with the foundation on the connections between gardening practice and the early days in lock-down.
Find your hope, then, on the ground under your feet.
Your hope of Heaven, let it rest on the ground underfoot.
The world is no better than its places. Its places at last
are no better than their people while their people
continue in them. When the people make
dark the light within them, the world darkens.
~ Wendell Berry