COA-PoA (Clube de Observadores de Aves de Porto Alegre) was the first birdwatchers’ club in Brazil, and it is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary this year. To celebrate, they are launching a mail art call with the theme birds and nature. Maximum dimensions are 297 x 210 mm or 11.7 x 8.3 in.Minimum dimensions are 100Continue reading “Mail Art Call: Birds and Nature”
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Nature in Istanbul
Sometimes, news travel slow even in the age of the internet. Only recently, we were informed about the exhibition Nature in Istanbul’s Bahariye Art Gallery which presented the collected contributions of Mengü Gezgins mail art call. Among the works by more than 130 artists was Gerald Jatzek’s collage sea&land, based on a photo he hadContinue reading “Nature in Istanbul”
New Poems in Canada and the USA
Nature is not good or bad, not ugly or beautiful, not weak or strong. Nature is, and nature is sometimes hard to understand. This is where poetry comes in. “What can be explained is not poetry”, wrote the great Irish poet William Butler Yeats in a note to his son. However, poetry can explain theContinue reading “New Poems in Canada and the USA”