This Zoom event features poet Danny Shot and artist Mara Torres González, collaborators on the “Jump!” broadside for Art in Common Places. Sarasota artist Gonzalez, a Puerto Rican transplant due to the devastation caused by Hurricane Maria in 2017, and Hoboken, New Jersey poet Shot, a first generation American and child of Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany, chose resilience as the theme for their project. They will present a reading of Shot’s poem and share how their conversations led to the creation of “Jump!” 

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Live at Selby Public Library, 1331 1st Street, in Sarasota, poet Melanie Lavender and artist Ann Burroughs will discuss their collaborative work on “Survival.” The women bonded over their common experience of motherhood to create a broadside for Art in Common Places that includes Lavender’s poem, “To My Son,” and Burroughs’ artwork titled “A Woman’s Heart.” Lavender will read her poem, and together they will discuss their collaborative process. Poet and Entrepreneur Don McLagan, who is in the process of being matched with an artist for a future broadside, will read one of his poems and discuss the artistic process of creating poetry. 

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