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John Lawson

JK Lawson is a professional artist and poet. Over the past 25 years his work has been exhibited extensively throughout the USA including the American Visionary Museum in Baltimore, the Californian African American Museum in Los Angelos and this fall The Hebrew Union Collage in New York new York.. He is the author of five books including Now, his first full collection of poems. His novel, Hurricane Hotel set during Hurricane Katrina has been successfully adapted for the theater with several staged readings both in the USA and UK. Currently JK is involved in establishing a poets/songwriter residency at the Rame Center for the Arts in Cornwall, U.K. For more information please visit www.lawsonworks.com or follow him on facebook

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Stephen Gerard Dietemann: A poetic architect

If I had to say what is common to all good art, whether it be architecture, art, cinema, dance, music, or any other form, I’d say it was, finally, the unpredictable.

Morgan Bulkeley: The Hieronymus Bosch of the Berkshires

“I try to make paintings that are beautiful, frightening and funny all at once, similar to The Theater of the Absurd, which assumes things are so bad that you can only laugh." -- Morgan Bulkeley

POEM: Snowman in the sun

A poem for Valentine's Day.

POEM : Impossible Star

A poem upon the occasion of learning of the death of David Bowie (1947-2016).

‘Evil: A matter of intent,’ an exhibit at Hebrew Union College. Interview with curator, Laura Kruger

"I personally feel that the Holocaust must be told as history and not as interpretation. It was very real. The scars are very real. And it’s too close." -- Laura Kruger, curator of the Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion Museum

POEM: Under the shade of any old moon, toward a Christmas past

A poem on the occasion of Christmas: Between hot cider and eggnog I am a scaled fish ready for the fryer lost inside a nightmare

POEM: Last seen wearing the rags of his own undoing: Monument vs. Searles

Meanwhile all around him/ The schools where real children huddle in learning/ Flake in decay from selective mismanagement.

ART PREVIEW: A holiday feast for the senses at Lauren Clark Fine Art

What makes this exhibition different is the way Ms. Clark has expertly curated the 17 artists’ styles, and placed them under one gallery roof.

POEM: A Map of Sorts

A poem, upon hearing of the slaughter at Inland ..... in San Bernardino, California, December 2, 2015

Poem for Paris: ‘Following the footsteps of ghosts’

In response to Friday night's terrorist carnage in Paris, a poem.

POEM: Towards a Contaminated Pond

Skin mates Forget the poisoned rain and PCB's. Arm in arm, let's head on past the deserted railway tracks,

Book Review: ‘The Underwater Typewriter’

Zegans’ love for the Berkshires can be found in this collection.

Poem: fossil onlooker

A poem on behalf of the thousands of Syrian refugees fenced off by razor wire from shelter and refuge.

Poems: In memory of Hurricane Katrina

The two photographs accompanying these poems were salvaged from my flood destroyed home and studio in New Orleans August 2005.

Poem: Overdose

The Obama Administration is committing millions of dollars to contend with the prevalence of heroin addiction in New England. The Berkshires are not immune. A poem, here, about what an overdose feels like.
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