Lisa Forrest, director of research and instructional design, read from her work at the Burchfield Penney Art Center at SUNY Buffalo State on Oct. 9.
From a description of the event on the center’s website: Forrest “was introduced to the works of Charles Burchfield through the Heat Waves in a Swamp retrospective at the Burchfield Penny. This breathtaking exhibit sparked a series of poems inspired by Charles Burchfield’s large-scale watercolors. As a singer-songwriter, Lisa is especially enthralled with Burchfield’s graphic depictions of sounds, and finds Burchfield’s journal entries a source of quiet encouragement. In the spirit of Burchfield’s art of revision, her most recent series builds upon lines from her own decade-old poetry.”