Call and Response

A Celebration of National Poetry Month at the FAC MODERN

Find out more about poetry month from the Academy of American Poets at poets.org.

Pikes Peak Poet Laureate

April 3 – May 1

April is National Poetry Month. Call and Response celebrates the intersection of poetry and visual art with a selection of handmade works on paper.

These works have provided a fruitful format in which artists such as James Trissel, Theodore Waddell, and Andrew Beckham have responded to passages of verse by poets such as Colorado Springs’s Poet Laureate Aaron Anstett, and Denver’s Poet Laureate Chris Ransick, among others. To extend this spirit of collaboration, the Colorado College’s nationally renowned letterpress shop has loaned many works for the exhibition and Poetry While You Wait has worked with the FAC and COPPeR (Cultural Office of the Pikes Peak Region) on scheduling two poetry readings at the MODERN:

FAC MODERN − 121 South Tejon

FAC MODERN Sponsored by: