This event is the first in a series of “conVERSations” about poetry and art held in conjunction with the “Varujan Boghosian: Material Poetry” Exhibition. Like Boghosian, poets are collectors, gathering “artifacts ancient and modern” from the world around them, from family and cultural histories, from dreams and imagination. Using the limitations of poetry to focus and contain—the way Boghosian used a physical frame—poets select and arrange and layer these “found objects” to make poetry that relies on both instinct and intention and often leads to unexpected places.

Poets Brett Warren and Lauren Wolk will discuss and read poems that illustrate their practice of paying attention to the world, responding to their perceptions, and following where the process takes them. The conversation will be followed by a Q&A.

Brett Warren (she/her) is the author of The Map of Unseen Things (Pine Row Press, 2023). Her poetry has appeared in Canary, Cape Cod Poetry Review, Halfway Down the Stairs, Harbor Review, Hole in the Head Review, Rise Up Review, SWWIM, and other literary publications. A triple nominee for Best of the Net 2023, she lives in a house surrounded by pitch pine and black oak trees—nighttime roosts of wild turkeys, who sometimes use the roof of her writing attic as a runway. www.brettwarrenpoetry.com

Lauren Wolk (she/her) is best known for her novels, especially the New York Times-bestselling and Newbery Honor-winning Wolf Hollow (2016), its sequel, My Own Lightning (2022), the Scott O’Dell Award-winning Beyond the Bright Sea (2017), and Echo Mountain (2020). She is also an award-winning poet and a visual artist represented by the Larkin Gallery in Harwich Port.

Included with general admission.