LiveWork Portland Blog Archive April, 2011

New Poet Laureate Brings Local Poems To You

Submitted by LiveWork Portland on Tue, 04/26/2011 - 10:42am.

by: Chad Frisbie

A Portland Biennial Worth Talking About

Submitted by LiveWork Portland on Tue, 04/19/2011 - 6:17am.

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We have talked before on this blog about how competition and criticism are the hallmarks of truly creative communitie

You Gotta Have Place

Submitted by LiveWork Portland on Wed, 04/13/2011 - 11:05am.

The opening of Base Camp Gallery last week in Portland was as much about the fact of a new alternative art space as it was about the work that was shown. Everybody there was clearly having a good time and it seemed to me that the real art at play here was social.

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	Biking Mount Desert Island \| An in-depth look at 18 of the island’s finest loop routes.
	Journey of the Sea Glass \| Full-color spreads with no words will inspire a child's imagination.
	Wild Fox \| This is Cherie Mason’s touching story of how she befriended a wild creature, knowing that his instincts would soon lead him away forever. Suffused with gentle wonder, Wild Fox speaks to the deep human longing to span the gulf between species.
	Take Heart \| In this collection of verse, Maine Poet Laureate Wesley McNair has collected the work of Maine poets from his popular “Take Heart” column, featuring a poem each week in thirty newspapers across the state and reaching a quarter of a million readers.