Her Circle: In praise of Artifactory

Kalamazoo poet Traci Brimhall recently appeared with other word workers at Artifactory, at an event for the Kalamazoo Valley Museum that’s been called an “an annual collision between poetry and artifacts.”

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This fusion of poetry and history also helps create something else–a diverse cross-section of community. … Their poems feature blizzards, country stores, local parks, tornadoes, obsolete technology, one-way streets (Kalamazoo really does have odd urban planning), and odes to the particular beauties of Michigan summers. This year’s reading featured a poem about a pernicious local pest, the Emerald Ash Borer, performed as a blues song.

For more on the event, please read the rest of the story.

Source: Her Circle