The 9 Poets Collective Celebrates The Launch Of The Maine Standard

The Nine Poets Collective has been meeting since June of 2020 when they each signed up for a chapbook intensive offered by Maine Media and led by presidential inaugural poet Richard Blanco. The group continues to write and support each other with monthly gatherings on Zoom, and an annual poetry picnic.

With the launch of the new literary journal from DownEast books, The Maine Standard, the Nine Poets are featured with selections of poems that speak to each of their “obsessions” and an introduction by Richard Blanco. In this event with The Poets Corner, we celebrate the launch of the Maine Standard with readings from all nine poets.

This special event highlights both the power of poetry and the value of online communities.

Find future and past events on The Poet’s Corner.

On Beauty – An Inspiring Evening With Photographer Richard Misrach

 

Read our View Camera Conversation here.

Read Quotes by Richard Misrach here.

View 12 Great Photographs by Richard Misrach.

View more Creativity Continues events at The Santa Fe Workshops.

 

On Beauty – An Inspiring Evening With Photographer Richard Misrach

Wednesday, December 13, 2023 – 6:00-7:00 pm (Mountain Time)

Register here.

Creativity Continues at Santa Fe Workshops with On Beauty, a conversation between Richard Misrach and John Paul Caponigro.

Our hour of inspiration will begin with a short presentation of images by Richard Misrach.

Next, Richard and John Paul will discuss the role of beauty in art (and specifically photography) as a source of nourishment for individuals and as a force for social change.

 

“Beauty can be a very powerful conveyor of difficult ideas.” – Richard Misrach

“It’s hard for art to really solve problems but I’ve come to believe that art is an important way of communicating, not only with current generations, but future generations.” – Richard Misrach

 

Finally, we’ll finish with a lively question-and-answer session open to all participants.

Join Santa Fe Workshops worldwide community of photographers and writers as Creativity Continues.

Richard Misrach is one of the most influential photographers of his generation. In the 1970s, he helped pioneer the renaissance of color photography and large-scale presentation that are in widespread practice today. Best known for his ongoing series, Desert Cantos, a multi-faceted approach to the study of place and man’s complex relationship to it, he has worked in the landscape for over 40 years.

His most recent book Notations (Radius) explores the beauty of photographic negatives.

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Read our View Camera Conversation here.

Read Quotes by Richard Misrach here.

View 12 Great Photographs by Richard Misrach.

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Two Generations Father & Son Talk About Their Art Online With Jennifer Schlesinger Of Obscura Gallery

Online Talk

Hosted by Obscura Gallery, Father Paul Caponigro and son John Paul Caponigro will share their photographs, talk about their work, and answer your questions.

 

Inquire about prints here.

View the Virtual Exhibit here.

Purchase the printed Catalog here.

Receive the ebook Images & Quotes here

 

Paul Caponigro

John Paul Caponigro

Exhibit – Two Generations – Obscura Gallery – Sep 15 – Nov 17

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.Two Generations

Paul Caponigro & John Paul Caponigro

.Obscura Gallery

.Sep 15 – Nov 18
Sep 15 – 4 pm Talk
Sep 15 – 5-7 pm Opening
Sep 30 – Online Talk

 

Inquire about prints here.

View the Virtual Exhibit here.

Purchase the printed Catalog here.

Receive the ebook Images & Quotes here

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Obscura Gallery proudly presents Two Generations: Paul Caponigro and John Paul Caponigro, a father-and-son exhibition including over two dozen photographs highlighting the careers of this family of artists.

For both artists, Santa Fe was home for over twenty years (1970 – 1990s) while Paul lived here raising John Paul in a community of artists. Now, decades later, their work will be shown together in this joint exhibition at Obscura Gallery.

At first glance, both artists seem a world apart – Paul works in straight, small-scale, analog, black-and-white gelatin silver prints, and John Paul works in composited, large-scale, digital color ink prints. Upon further reflection, you’ll find their shared sensibilities run much deeper and are far more significant than the surface differences. Both masters, with a strong dedication to their craft and a deep reverence for nature, Paul Caponigro and John Paul Caponigro, create mystical spaces with powerful atmospheres of silence that resound with spirit. In these deep moments of quiescence, both rekindle our most primal ways of being and awaken our most essential natures, reminding us that man lives not apart from nature but as a part of Nature.

Join us (in person or online) for this fascinating exploration of changes in the medium of photography and, through it, the ways we see land and ourselves.

Join Us Online Feb 3 – 5 For A Fabulous Night Photo Summit

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For years, the great folks at National Parks At Night have been hosting an online symposium on night photography.
3 Days
35 Speakers
38 Sessions
1 Year To Watch Replays
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Feb 5 at 3:45 EST
I’ll present a new seminar
Naked Eye, Camera Eye, Mind’s Eye.
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I’m delighted to participate this year. I’m also psyched to see many of the presentations, including Joseph DePasquale’s Unveiling The Infrared Universe With The James Webb Space Telescope.
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Join Us! Young Poets Read – New Voices Rising – Sun Oct 9 / 4 EST

I’ll be cohosting a special event with poet Kathleen Ellis.

Young Maine poets read and discuss their unique perspectives.

Come hear the voices of young poets as they express their views of our world. The poets are University of Maine students active in campus creative writing activities and the campus literary magazine, The Open Field. Readings will be followed by a conversation among the poets facilitated by Kathleen Ellis and John Paul Caponigro, and Q&A from the audience. Poets reading will include Samuel Mills, Iris Lecates, Paige McHatten, Starla Straub, and Rachel Ouellette.

Register free here.

Join Me For A New Poetry Reading – Ecopoetry / Voices For The Future

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Sunday, April 10, 2022 – 4-5:30 pm EST

I will be cohosting (with Meg Weston) this event and reading my poetry with fellow Maine poets Kathleen Ellis, Gary Lawless, Iris LeCates, and Meghan Sterling in an intergenerational celebration of our place in nature.

Find out more about these poets here.

Each poet will recommend a book, share a favorite poem by another poet, and read their poetry.

A lively Q&A with the audience is sure to follow so bring your burning questions.

Ecopoetry (a relatively new term) offers contemporary views of our complex interrelationships within nature, often exploring ways places influence culture. Sometimes celebratory and sometimes critical, ecopoetry looks closely at personal sensitivity and social change.

Register free now.

The poets of this gathering recommend the following books for finding further inspiration.
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Gary Lawless recommends Henry David Thoreau’s Walking
Kathleen Ellis recommends Carlo Rovelli’s Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
John Paul Caponigro recommends David Hinton’s The Wilds Of Poetry; Adventures In Mind On Landscape
Meghan Sterling John Sibley Williams’ Scale Model of a Country at Dawn
Iris Lecates Bell Hooks’ recommends Appalachian Elegy
Meg Weston recommends Charlotte McConaughy’s Migrations
 
Please consider supporting your local bookstore by contacting Gary Lawless at his Gulf Of Maine Books in Brunswick. gulfofmainebooks@gmail.com or 207-729-5083
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Enjoy Frames’ Online Photography Summit – March 25-27, 2022

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“Taking place over three days, the FRAMES PHOTOGRAPHY SUMMIT 2022 will feature twelve top-class presenters. Our lineup will include some of the biggest names in the craft as well as individuals at the cutting edge of their creative practice. With our commitment to educate, entertain, and inspire, we will feature talks on artists’ work and working practices as well as in-depth interviews that will challenge how we think about photography. If you share our love of photography, join us for this exciting event where we will celebrate our shared passion for the joy of image-making.”

Twelve sixty-to-ninety-minute sessions with some of photography’s most prominent and knowledgeable artists and thinkers.

Ami Vitale
Alec Soth
Caroline Preece
Sean Tucker
Barbara Alper
Richard I’Anson
Phil Penman
Michael Kenna
John Paul Caponigro
Rick Halpern
Shane Balkowitsch
Rollence Patugan

I’m presenting Sunday, March 27 at 1 PM EST.
The Wonderful Things Printing Can Do For You And Your Images

$120 for all-access tickets
$99 with the code Johnpaul20

Register here.
View the schedule here.

Two Generations: Paul and John Paul Caponigro – Feb 16 8pm EST Online With SFW

Receive this ebook free.       26 images – 26 quotes

Buy this ebook here.       75 images – 3 essays

 

Wednesday, February 16 – 2022

Creativity Continues at Santa Fe Workshops with Two Generations In Conversation, an evening with father Paul Caponigro and son John Paul Caponigro. During this captivating hour, the Caponigros, after a brief viewing of images, will share their thoughts about the soul of photography, the joys of printing, and how the two are related. Then we’ll finish our program with a lively question and answer session open to all participants.

Over The Threshold – A Creative Conversation With Sean Kernan

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Over The Threshold – A Conversation On Creativity With John Paul Caponigro and Sean Kernan

During this inspiring hour, John Paul and Sean share images, thoughts, and provocations for themselves and viewers. A lively question and answer session brings this free program to completion.

At some point, all photographers sense their best and truest work lies at a point somewhere out beyond the threshold of their comfort. The question then becomes how to get there.

John Paul Caponigro and Sean Kernan, long-time friends, approach creativity in different ways, but they both head for the same transformative experience. During this conversation, they share personal stories of moments that changed their art and their lives. Meditation, playing music, acting, drawing, and writing are just a few of the practices they use to make room for the revelations that improvisation brings. They offer insights into moving beyond habitual practices and making space for the unknown, which is where the magic of the creative process happens.

Read Sean Kernan’s quick Q&A here.

Read our conversation for Camera Arts here. 

View more video with Sean Kernan here. 

View more Creativity Continues events at The Santa Fe Workshops.

Visit Sean Kernan’s website here.