For more information about Albert Flynn DeSilver and his work go to:
www.albertflynndesilver.com
THANK YOU MARIN!!!!
Dear Citizens of Marin County, The Marin Poetry Center, the Marin Cultural Commission, and the Marin Arts Council and especially the Poet Laureate Committee: Jeannie, Argo, Dick, Terri, and Suzie.
Thank you all for an incredible two years as Marin's first Poet Laureate--what an honor and privilege it has been! And what great fun!!
Special thanks to artist, sculptor, musician, human extraordinaire, Todd Pickering.
From working with the students at Sir Francis Drake High School on their wonderful "non-profit video", to our Poetry Picnic on Mt. Tam with National Poet Laureate Kay Ryan, Albert and the poetry chair participated in close to thirty events county-wide from a workshop in Marin City, to a reading in Point Reyes and a public day at Stinson Beach from the Larkspur Library to Homeward Bound in Novato from the Marin Poetry Festival in Sausalito to the Mill Valley Garden Club from the West End Café to the Marin County Fair, the Marin Poetry Chair sought to engage the public in a renewed enchantment with poetry as a free, open, and public expression of what it means to be human to celebrate our selves and our relationship to our community through the power of the poetic word.
Please keep in touch!!: www.albertflynndesilver.com
A big welcome and congratulations to CB Follett!! For more on her fabulous work go to: www.arctospress.com
With infinite gratitude,
Albert Flynn DeSilver April, 2010
The Marin Poetry Chair is an actual chair made out of poetry books
designed and created by West Marin Artist Todd Pickering. The
Poetry Chair will become a kind of traveling poetry circus. The
Poetry Chair will make appearances at Galleries, at The Marin
County Fair, at Senior Centers, Schools, The Mall, atop Mount
Tamalpais, out at the beaches in Point Reyes, and many other
locations. The Poetry Chair will be the site of readings, writing
workshops, and improvisational poetic theater.
This site will celebrate and document the Poetry Chair's movements throughout the county over the next year or more. The documentation will include poems written by visitors to the chair and posted as blog entries, video, still photographs and even music and art works people create about the chair and their experiences with the chair. This site is a public space for people throughout the county to submit poems, dreams, wishes, post poetic photographs, poetic video, and anything creative related to poetry in Marin County.
WE INVITE
YOU TO COME JOIN US ON LOCATION, SIT IN THE CHAIR, AND WRITE, OR READ,
OR JUST BE. WE WELCOME YOUR PARTICIPATION TODAY!!
Albert Flynn DeSilver was named Marin County's very first
poet Laureate in May of 2008. Albert is an internationally published
poet, teacher, visual artist, writer, and entrepreneur living in
Woodacre. For his tenure as Poet Laureate he has created The
Marin Poetry Chair
in collaboration with West Marin
Artist/photographer/musician, Todd Pickering.
Poetry Chair Explained
News and Photos
Marin Independent Journal: Sculptor Todd Pickering & Poet Albert Flynn DeSilver with the Poetry Chair in Point Reyes, California, April 13, 2009.