Notes from the Hatch: On Moons and Birds and Other Artistic Preoccupations

March 20, 2022

Hey y’all! It’s Carmen here. In case you missed our March 20 meeting of the Hatch, where I read a poem by Ross Gay and shared some thoughts on artistic preoccupations, here are some notes.

With many artists, certain images, ideas, and motifs recur in their work. For example, I once attended a reading by the poet Mark Strand, and after he finished, during…