For our 2019 Art & Poetry pairing, one pairing was with poet Jane Nozzolillo and the painter Young Farwell.
Here are the works they created!
Young Farwell provided this painting to Jane:
In response, Jane wrote the following poem:
I’m so excited today
After school, the nuns
are having an ice skating race
I like all the nuns, but I would be
so happy if Sister Margaret Mary
took first place
I thought about asking God what he
could do to help her to win
I changed my mind because
doing something like
that might be a sin
Oh! dear sister Margaret Mary
Just lost the race, coming in at number 4
She smiled and whispered as she went by
“They wanted to win so much more”
…
The second half of this pairing involved Jane giving Young a poem as a starting point. Jane provided this poem:
My name is Ted and I’m almost five I’m also very sick
and the doctor says I have to stay in bed you
see
As I laid on my bed and gazed out the window a bird
flew by and smiled at
me
I asked my Dad the same question I always ask
if birds can fly why can’t
I
Ted if you try real hard to get well I promise I will take
you to a place where you can
fly
I did get well and and I feel just great and today is the
day my Dad is going to keep his promise to
me
We are in a big basket with a huge hot air balloon above
us and I’m flying and there is blue sky as far as I can
see
* * *
In response, Young created this painting:
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