While oft celebrated as a meticulous Pop artist with recognizable use of color, line, and shape, Charity Singleton Craig sees Robert Indiana as a poet, novelist and memoirist.
Literary Tours: Palm Springs Art Museum
On literary tours we often stop at places such as the Palm Springs Art Museum, to enjoy a visual feast.
Literary Tour: Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, Florida
In today’s literary tour, Kathryn Neel takes us into the jungle off the Atlantic coast in Florida for a colorful tour of the Atlantic Center for the Arts.
Literary Tours: Cassadaga Florida
Visit Cassadaga, a small Florida town that is a cross between Mayberry and The Twilight Zone, with a dash of Old West ghost town.
Literary Tours: Rex Hausmann’s Max-a-mal Exhibit at The Cody Center
Tweetspeak Literary Tours take us many places. This time we visit Rex Hausmann’s Max-a-mal Exhibit at The Cody Center on the grounds of Laity Lodge retreat center.
Literary Tours: Poets House, New York City
Poets House is a place of reclamation, of your past and of your future.
Literary Tours: Sleepy Hollow’s Washington Irving House
Our virtual Literary Tours travels to the villages of Sleepy Hollow and neighboring Tarrytown, New York, to visit Washington Irving’s home, “Sunnyside.”
Literary Tours: New York City Top Sights Tour!
Check out our whirlwind virtual tour of New York City, then plan your own amazing visit!
How to Become a Better Writer: Cantor Arts Center Artist Date
Artist Dates help us learn how to become a better writer. Today, we only have one hour to tour an art museum with Dolly Lee. Let’s get started.
How to Succeed in the Writing Business: The Mark Twain House
Take a photo tour of the Mark Twain House and Museum with us, learning about the beloved author’s writing career, business acumen and writing habits.
Walk to Work with a Poet: The Wallace Stevens Walk
Take the Wallace Stevens Walk with us, following the stones engraved with the stanzas of “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” in Hartford, Connecticut.
Edward Gorey Cats of Cape Cod Trail
The cats of Edward Gorey’s “Category” have created the Cats of Cape Cod Trail, which is sure to become a must-follow excursion for cat lovers, Gorey lovers and Cape Cod lovers everywhere.
Edward Gorey House: Watch Your Step
Visiting Cape Cod? Don’t forget to plan a stop at the Edward Gorey House in Yarmouth Port. The whimsy is worth the stop.
Writer’s Conferences: Cape Cod Writers Center
The Cape Cod Writers Center Conference features a diversity of courses on the craft and business of writing, a mature audience and a breathtaking location.
Wordfest Literary Event at The Mount
A literary event to remember: Wordfest at The Mount, in a beautiful woodland setting, against the backdrop of Edith Wharton’s Massachusetts environment.
Literary Tour: Blue Bicycle Books (Charleston, SC)
Elizabeth Marshall finds joy in the narrow bookstore aisle of Blue Bicycle Books in our latest literary tour stop.
Getting Poetry to the People – The Wall Poems of Charlotte
People deserve access to poetry, which belongs to them. So why not paint poems onto buildings? Amy Bagwell on The Wall Poems of Charlotte.
Poet Focus: Marianne Moore
For all of her modernist associations, Marianne Moore’s poetry didn’t exactly fit the category. There’s a richness, almost a lushness, in many of her poems that’s absent from the moderns. She ranged over history and literature — Rome and Greece, Britain and Ireland, and America — as well as music and the natural world.
The Poet’s Son: Ai Weiwei
Charity Singleton Craig explores Ai Weiwei’s exhibit “According to What?” pondering the question of what it is that makes something art art along the way.
National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden
Maureen Doallas takes us on a tour of the National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden on the Mall in Washington, D.C.