A new collection by one of our founding Participating Writers Named the first Poet Laureate of Delaware County, New York, Bertha Rogers, is a poet, translator, visual artist, and master teaching artist. More than 250 of her poems and critical reviews have appeared in journals and literary magazines. She has published more than 600 poems and…
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Expanding Ideas: Words into Poems and Artists Books with Bertha Rogers
Before poets could read and write, they spoke their poems, and they drew and carved on available surfaces. When the monks began copying holy texts, they weren’t satisfied with words only; they began illuminating the manuscripts with both sacred and profane drawings and paintings. William Blake was famous for his poems rich with watercolors. What we call “outsider art” frequently features words and images. – B. Rogers
