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The [[O.B. Hardison Poetry Series]], co-sponsored with The Phillips Collection, presented ''10 Artists After Paul Klee at the Phillips Collection: Sherwin Bitsui and Paisley Rekdal'' on March 22, 2018 at 6:30pm at the Phillips Collection. This reading was in response to the exhibition ''Ten Americans: After Paul Klee''. This exhibition explored the seminal role of Swiss-born artist Paul Klee (1879–1940) in the development of mid-20th-century American art, it featured work by Klee in dialogue with ten American artists including Adolph Gottlieb, Norman Lewis, Robert Motherwell, Kenneth Noland, and Jackson Pollock.

==Sherwin Bitsui==
[[File:SherwinBitsui.jpg|150px|right|thumb|Sherwin Bitsui.]]
[http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/Sherwin-Bitsui Sherwin Bitsui] is the author of two volumes, ''Flood Song'' and ''Shapeshift''. Bitsui has been noted for his poetry that “returns things to their basic elements and voice in flowing language rife with illuminating images” (Library Journal). The recipient of a Whiting Award, an American Book Award, and the PEN Book Award, he is Diné (Navaho) of the Todích’ii’nii (Bitter Water Clan), born for the Tlizílaaní (Many Goats Clan).








==Paisley Rekdal==
[[File:PaisleyRekdal AustenDiamond.jpg|150px|right|thumb|Paisley Rekdal. Austen Diamond.]]
[http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/Paisley-Rekdal Paisley Rekdal] is the author of a book of essays, a photo-text memoir, and four books of poetry including ''Animal Eye'', a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Prize and winner of the UNT Rilke Prize. Her newest book of poems is ''Imaginary Vessels'', and a book-length essay, ''The Broken Country: On Trauma, a Crime, and the Continuing Legacy of Vietnam'', is forthcoming. She is the current Poet Laureate of Utah. 











==Reviews and excerpts==

From "Vessels"


:::…Nothing

could be so roughly

handled and yet feel


so little, your pity

turned into part of this

production: you


with your small,

four-chambered heart,

shyness, hungers, envy: what


could be so precious

you’d cleave

another to keep it


close? Imagine

the weeks it takes to wind

nacre over the red


seed placed at the other

heart’s mantle…


Excerpt from “Vessels” from ''Imaginary Vessels'' by Paisley Rekdal © 2016, published by Copper Canyon Press. Used with permission.



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