Matthew Salomon Poetry and Prose Silver Spring, Maryland Home page: http://matthewsalomon.wordpress,com Email: matthewsalomon@gmail.com Performing: 05/17/2008 - 9:30pm, 06/14/2008 - 8:00pm

Sat Jun 14 - 8:00pm-9:00pm
SpeakEasy Lounge

New Envisionings
Matthew Salomon

Matt will read a selection of poems from his own works, translations, and those of others, old and new that have been inspired by or have inspired works of visual art. Each reading will be accompanied by visual projections of the work(s) inspiring or inspired by the poem. The performance will attempt to simulate (as much as possible) conditions under which readers might encounter poem-image pairings on the internet, and will allow for interaction and collaboration between the reader/presenter and listener/viewer.

Matt is a DC-area poet, currently working on a book-length manuscript of original poems and translations, and a prose adaptation of the Middle English poem, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. He has read from his poems and prose at a number of venues in recent years and, in 2007, he completed an MFA in Creative Writing at American University. He is interested in exploring the new freedoms for poetry and visual art made possible by the ascendancy of the so-called new media. Please visit and contribute your energies to the GOLEMPOEM blog (the website listed above).