AIR Series: Scott Laumann

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Have you heard about Ruminate’s new AIR (artist-in-residence) series? We’re excited to offer our beautiful barn to a select number of artists, providing them with the space and time to create. Our inaugural AIR reception, featuring local artist Scott Laumann, is June 28th, 7pm in the barn. We hope to see you there! More information available here.

Stay tuned for our next installment in September!

Miss the event? See some photos and read my introduction to Scott’s work at Ruminate. 

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The Ruminate Barn

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Beer donated by Pateros Creek Brewery & Fort Collins Brewery

 

June Artist of the Month

June Artist of the Month

June Artist of the Month

I’m honored to be Imgae Journal‘s June Artist of the month!

“Gifted newcomer Kristin George Bagdanov is a border-crosser: in her poems, she moves her needle back and forth across the gap between mind and body, heaven and earth, human and nature, human and divine, then pulls the thread tight, drawing the panels together….”

Read more and see one of my poems from Image’s 25 year anniversary issue.

The Poem That Desires

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A Poem that Desires: Changing the Secular/Sacred Conversation

“Let’s ignore for a moment the secular/sacred dichotomy and talk about how the writing of a poem is an act of desire, and that this desire is the same one that reaches out toward the other, the sacred, the little or big “g,” “God.” If this is the conversation we engage in, not only is there no need for the secular/sacred divide—it doesn’t even exist.”

Read more of my latest blog here

Saturday Poetry Series

Head on over to As It Ought To Be every Saturday morning for a new poem. Here’s a link to December 14, 2013, when my poem “We Dissolve Separately” was reprinted from Thrush poetry journal.

“Editor’s Note: If I had to sum up today’s poem in one word it would be “powerful.” With this piece Kristin George Bagdanov takes on the heavy and the deep; without fear, without apprehension. “Trust me,” she tells us bluntly, “you will / always be alone.” We can love, but “We will always be separate in time, / the distance between our bodies in bed / the distance between your death and mine.” From its biblical entry—as captivating as the origin story it evokes—to its repeated waves of brutal honesty, today’s entry is as well-wrought as the human body in all its striking, singular existence.”

Review of Sunday Rising

Patricia Clark’s fourth collection of poetry, Sunday Rising, alternates between these skyward and groundward gazes to show us where they meet, and how, in fact, they are the same wonder-filled and bewildered perspective, that light “enter[s] the river with the same / intensity of burning / we see in life at its peak, / or life with the flame / threatening to go out.”

Read more of my review of Patricia Clark’s 4th poetry collection at the Colorado Review.