Looking for the Words: Poetry Pop-Up
GETTY CENTER
Museum Courtyard
This is a past event
Turn an artwork into poetry. Los Angeles-based wordsmiths, armed with manual typewriters and poetic license, help transform your favorite Getty artwork into a memorable, take-home poem in this free, drop-in event for visitors of all ages.
This event is held on Saturday, October 8 and Sunday, October 23, 2022. Complements the exhibition Cy Twombly: Making Past Present.
About the Artists:
Brian Sonia-Wallace (RENT Poet) creates collaborative public art and poetry mediated by the technology of the typewriter. He is the West Hollywood City Poet Laureate, an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow, and the author of The Poetry of Strangers: What I Learned Traveling America with a Typewriter.
For this event, Brian brings together some of the best poetic improvisors in Los Angeles from both Melrose Poetry Bureau (Nayeli Adorador-Knudsen, Linda Ravenswood, and Bobby Gordon) and Pride Poets (Marcos James, Jireh Deng, and José Rios). These poets have performed together at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, been heard on KCRW, and toured the country creating original work in direct dialogue with the public.