Art – Paul Baerman

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Art – Paul Baerman

The other I

I think I mentioned my Biblical work-in-progress. I’m still circling and circling like a hawk watching Jacob and the angel brawling below me, but I need to get closer in order to finish the poem so my talented friend Simon Kaplan can perform it in a couple weeks. Well, if not “finish” then “bring to… Continue reading The other I

Five Pages of Verse

Yesterday my friend Kristin and I completed our submission for an Orange County grant that would enable us to commission and perform a song cycle based on my poems. The idea excites me. Also yesterday, I submitted five pages of verse, as required, to the North Carolina Poetry Society, which offers a weeklong residency at… Continue reading Five Pages of Verse

Art & emergency

After the 2016 election I kept asking myself how artists should respond in time of political crisis. I sat down with singer-songwriter-satirist Roy Zimmerman the next summer to kick it around—he sure had known what to do, but then he had been doing it all along. Popping a demagogue’s balloon was nothing new for Roy.… Continue reading Art & emergency