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Poetry Reading
After Images, Before Words: Art and Poetry in Dialogue
5 pm | Public Reception
6 pm | Poetry Reading
Book Signing
Join notable local poets Dennis Barone and James Finnegan as they read aloud from their own work and that of selected others, reflecting on the evocative interrelation of art and poetry represented in the exhibition Sound & Sense: Poetic Musings in American Art. Free and open to the public.
PLEASE NOTE: The museum’s Avery Door entrance (along Atheneum Square North, across from Travelers Tower) is currently closed to accommodate construction on Travelers Plaza. Please enter the museum through the doors at 600 Main Street. Click here for directions and more information.
Image: Thomas Dewing, The Days, 1884-86, oil on canvas, Gift of the estates of Louise Cheney and Anne W. Cheney, 1944.328