U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón, a former Writing Fellow at PKPR client Fine Arts Work Center, returns to Provincetown today to launch a unique project: she will be installing American poems about nature in seven national parks, beginning with a Mary Oliver poem at the breathtaking Cape Cod National Seashore. Listen to the wonderful interview on WBUR-FM (NPR-Boston), where Limón shares how her time in Provincetown and at the Work Center helped forge her deep connection to both nature and poetry.
PKPR Client: Fine Arts Work Center
The Fine Arts Work Center is an international home for artists and writers in Provincetown, Massachusetts — the country’s most enduring artists’ community. Founded in 1968 by a group of luminary creators including Stanley Kunitz, Robert Motherwell, Josephine and Salvatore Del Deo, and Hudson and Ione Walker, the Work Center has given artists and writers the space and time to pursue their work within a community of peers for more than half a century. The artist-led Work Center supports emerging artists and writers through its world-renowned Fellowship program, and also offers summer workshops and year-round virtual learning opportunities to advance creative practice. Fine Arts Work Center Fellows who have arrived in Provincetown as emerging writers have gone on to win Pulitzer Prizes, National Book Awards, MacArthur Fellowships, and the Nobel Prize in Literature. Visual Arts Fellows have presented their work at the Venice Biennale, The Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, and at other venues around the globe. The Fine Arts Work Center supports artistic freedom, nurtures creative connections, and makes possible artistic achievements important to the larger culture.
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