Presented by Sonoma Valley Museum of Art as a live webcast poetry series, Words We Travel: Poetry and the Road in Tribute to Ed Ruscha, featuring poets and speakers from across the U.S. who connect written word with photographs, history and personal-turned-epic journeys.
On October 28th we talked about photographs and poetry included in New York’s MoMA exhibition about Dorothea Lange, an artist who chronicled the great migration during the Depression from the Mid-West to California. Tess Taylor, a Bay Area native, spent two years following the trail of Dorothea Lange through California, revisiting Lange’s notebooks, and the sites she photographed as a lens for understanding California now, which resulted in Taylor’s book LAST WEST Roadsongs for Dorothea Lange. In this event, patrons have the chance to visit the virtual views of the DOROTHEA LANGE: WORDS & PICTURES exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, and talk about poetry, photography and Lange’s legacy with Taylor and MoMA curator of photography Sarah Meister.