In 2018, poet Marjorie Maddox Hafer drove with her then art-student daughter Anna to Baltimore. Their destination was the American Visionary Art Museum. As Hafer describes in her introduction to In the Museum of My Daughter’s Mind (2023), they drove through a thunderstorm, and she herself was recovering from a recent medical procedure.
At the museum they walked into both poetry and artistic inspiration. Hafer would write nine poems based on art and photography works; within a year, her daughter would receive her art degree, hold her first exhibition, and sell her first work. Hafer includes the nine poems in this 2023 collection, accompanied by the inspirational artworks themselves. The other 23 poems in the collection are matched to works by her daughter. (You can see many of Anna Hafer’s art works here.)
To continue reading, please see my post today at Tweetspeak Poetry.
Some Thursday Readings
Poet Laura: What’s in a Name – Sandra Fox Murphy at Tweetspeak Poetry.
Else Lasker-Schuler’s Grief – David Bannon at Front Porch Republic.
Finding Your Needle in Chesterton’s Haystack – Alan Cornett at Miller’s Book Review.
“How to Tel the Wild Animals,” poem by Carolyn Wells – Joseph Bottum at Poems Ancient and Modern.
