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Performance
Session Title
Poetry Readings from The Nature of Things: Poems of Flora and Protest. By Helen Matthews Lewis, Illustrations by Patricia Beaver.
Session Abstract or Summary
Poetry reading by Helen Lewis, Patricia Beaver, and friends, from the chapbook The Nature of Things: Poems of Flora and Protest. By Helen Matthews Lewis, Illustrations by Patricia Beaver.
Helen Matthews Lewis Is an activist, sociologist, public intellectual who has written a series of poems addressing social issues. At 94, Helen observed, “As I got too old to sit down in front of bulldozers and protest, I began writing poems of protest”. Her dozen poems focus on the flowers, weeds, and flowering plants that abound in her native south and central Appalachia, from the earliest bring redbud trees and forsythia, to the intruder Bradford Pear, through summer’s Queen Anne’s lace, and that harbinger of fall, Joe Pye Weed.
Patricia Beaver, anthropologist, founding director of the Center for Appalachian studies at ASU, watercolorist, and editor with Judi Jennings of Helen Matthews Lewis: Living Social Justice in Appalachia, has developed a series of watercolors to reflect and illustrate the sentiment of some of Helen’s poems.
Presentation #1 Title
Poetry Readings from The Nature of Things: Poems of Flora and Protest. By Helen Matthews Lewis, Illustrations by Patricia Beaver.
Presentation #1 Abstract or Summary
Helen Matthews Lewis Is an activist, sociologist, public intellectual who has written a series of poems addressing social issues. At 94, Helen observed, “As I got too old to sit down in front of bulldozers and protest, I began writing poems of protest”. Her dozen poems focus on the flowers, weeds, and flowering plants that abound in her native south and central Appalachia, from the earliest bring redbud trees and forsythia, to the intruder Bradford Pear, through summer’s Queen Anne’s lace, and that harbinger of fall, Joe Pye Weed.
Patricia Beaver, anthropologist, founding director of the Center for Appalachian studies at ASU, watercolorist, and editor with Judi Jennings of Helen Matthews Lewis: Living Social Justice in Appalachia, has developed a series of watercolors to reflect and illustrate the sentiment of some of Helen’s poems.
At-A-Glance Bio- Presenter #1
Helen Matthews Lewis Is an activist, sociologist, public intellectual who has written a series of poems addressing social issues
Poetry Readings from The Nature of Things: Poems of Flora and Protest. By Helen Matthews Lewis, Illustrations by Patricia Beaver.
Helen Matthews Lewis Is an activist, sociologist, public intellectual who has written a series of poems addressing social issues. At 94, Helen observed, “As I got too old to sit down in front of bulldozers and protest, I began writing poems of protest”. Her dozen poems focus on the flowers, weeds, and flowering plants that abound in her native south and central Appalachia, from the earliest bring redbud trees and forsythia, to the intruder Bradford Pear, through summer’s Queen Anne’s lace, and that harbinger of fall, Joe Pye Weed.
Patricia Beaver, anthropologist, founding director of the Center for Appalachian studies at ASU, watercolorist, and editor with Judi Jennings of Helen Matthews Lewis: Living Social Justice in Appalachia, has developed a series of watercolors to reflect and illustrate the sentiment of some of Helen’s poems.
