Poetry, Painting and Global Identity

HERE THERE HERE: POETRY, PAINTING AND GLOBAL IDENTITY”
The Abbot Library is pleased to present the work of visual artist Linda Klein and poet Bernard Horn, a talented and accomplished couple who share the experience of living in Israel as a source of inspiration.

“Here There Here: The Paintings and Prints of Linda Klein” On view in the Library’s Virginia A. Carten Gallery Sunday, November 6th through Wednesday, November 30th The exhibit will include a selection from the artist’s series of twenty-six gouache paintings, Tallitot Nof (Landscape Prayer Shawls), as well as silk screen images on the theme of construction – or, as the artist perceives them, “destruction” – sites. Linda recently retired from her faculty position in the Art Department of Endicott College. She has been represented by Bromfield Art Gallery in Boston, since 1994. Linda lived in Israel for ten years, from 1968 to 1978. On Sunday, November 13th, from 2:00 – 4:00 p.m., there will be a public reception for the exhibit, with a gallery talk by the artist, about her work, at 2:30 p.m.

“Poetry & Terror: The Times & Life of a Family Man.” Author Talk by Bernard Horn Wednesday, November 16th, at 7:00 p.m., Four of Linda Klein’s Tallitot Nof paintings are included in her husband Bernard Horn’s most recent book of poetry, Our Daily Words, selected as a “Must Read” book and a finalist for the 2011 Massachusetts Book Award in Poetry, by the Massachusetts Center for the Book. About a quarter of the poems in the book concern Israel and were written during the nine months the author spent there in 2001, teaching at Haifa University. Winner of a Fulbright and five fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Bernie’s poems and translations of Israel’s premier poet, Yehuda Amichai, have appeared in The New Yorker, The Manhattan Review, The Mississippi Review, Moment Magazine, and other publications. After teaching in the English Department at Northern Essex Community College for 13 years, Bernie moved on to his present position as Professor of English at Framingham State College, where he received the 2010 Distinguished Faculty Award. On Wednesday, November 16th, at 7:00 p.m., Bernard Horn will present, “Poetry & Terror: The Times & Life of a Family Man.” The program will include the author’s reflections on cross-cultural interrelationships – both in the challenges of translating Yehuda Amichai’s work and in his own poetry. He also will discuss how the activity of translating and the reality of history, in the form of terrorism, impact his writing process, which is grounded in his identity, not as an isolated individual, but as a member of a family and a first generation American.