Art Project Winner "The Drum" Knoxville Public Library
Artwork and Bardic Poetry Book by Joseph S. Plum
Welcome:
Greetings and welcome to American Bardic Poet.
“there comes a moment when you go off and spinning out into the Milky Way”
I’ve been working on submitting a grant for Dad. The project we’re proposing is for Joe to create a series of 20 paintings, each accompanied by a poem. Or perhaps the other way around - 20 poems with accompanying paintings. The idea came from his project that won the 2022 Knoxville Art Project Award, where he created poems for each section of his painting entry titled “The Drum.” I’m sharing some photos here.
Good journey,
(The poet’s daughter.)
Knoxville Public Library - Art Project Winner
Previous Posts
Read more about the poet here.
Read about the poet and the bees here.
Read my post regarding the punctuation and editing of the poems here.
Read the poem “The Sun Has Traveled Well” here.
🙏🏼 Thank you for gathering here. May it be a blessing. 🙏🏼
About the Poet
Joseph S. Plum is a poet in the bardic tradition. He lives off-grid in rural Iowa and composes his unique chant-like oral poetry for fascinated audiences worldwide. Joe has over 16 hours of oral poetry memorized in his head. He pulls from this collection of rhyming lines to compose poems according to the energy of the audience listening. Joe does all of this without writing the poems down on paper or holding any notes.
Joe’s daughter, Emily Lupita, typed up his poems over the years and launched Dreaming Deer Press to publish his work. He now has nine poetry books for sale on Amazon that can be purchased on his about page or by clicking here or searching “Joseph S. Plum” books.
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Good luck with the grant!