with Greg Byrd, PhD, and Marjorie Greene Graff
- Thursday, January 26, 2023 & Thursday, April 20, 2023
- 5:30–7:00 p.m.
- LRMA Interactive Gallery
- Free, donations welcome
Open to students and the community, this interdisciplinary program merges the power of poetry and art into a meaningful interactive experience. Join SPC Professor Greg Byrd, PhD, as he reads four original poems inspired by four important paintings from art history by John Singer Sargent, Andrew Wyeth, and Raphael Soyer. Attendees will learn more about the four artworks from LRMA docent and retired SPC Fine Arts Professor Marjorie Greene Graff and have the opportunity to create their own poem based on two paintings by Abraham Rattner from LRMA’s permanent collection.
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For more information, contact LRMA at (727) 712-5762 or lrma@spcollege.edu
About Greg Byrd:
Gregory Byrd’s poems have appeared widely in journals such as the Tampa Review, Apalachee Review, Cortland Review, Poeteka (Albania, in translation). Among his poetry books, The Name for the God Who Speaks won the Robert Phillips Prize in 2018. An excerpt from his WWI flying novel, Where Shadow Meets Water, appears in Apalachee Review. He has received a Creative Pinellas Rapid Returns Fellowship, Fulbright Fellowship, an SPC Distinguished Teaching Award, and a Pushcart Prize Nomination. Dr. Byrd studied writing and literature at Eckerd College, Florida State University, and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where he earned his PhD in 2001. Byrd teaches writing and humanities at St. Petersburg College.