About: Sheila Packa and Kathy McTavish
Sheila Packa has three books of poems, Cloud Birds, Echo & Lightning and The Mother Tongue. She is a past McKnight Fellow and currently is the Duluth Poet Laureate 2010-2012. Kathy McTavish is a composer, cellist, and multimedia artist. She does improv cello in spoken word and theater events, and she creates films and visual art/sound installations. www.cellodreams.com
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Contributions
as if we were dreaming as if night came from the iris as in the giving we gave way and one wild bloom lights the next what’s left falls into rags and grass lays down at our feet
Here’s craft talks from Sheila Packa and Kathy McTavish. You can see their multimedia video of the poem “Black Iris” in the October 2011 Ensemble Jourine. Find more multimedia, art, and hybrid writing online at Ensemble Jourine and in the paperback Ensemble Anthology: Art & Hybrid Writing by International Women. Sheila Packa: Process Notes The poet Lorine Niedecker READ MORE