On Moons and Birds and Other Artistic Preoccupations

Notes from the Hatch on 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…