Poetry-Photography Project
Poetry-Photography Project "Over the River: Poetry and Photos by Helene Fischman" launched at Urbano Cellars Winery & Gallery in Berkeley, California in February 2012. Announcement linked [here].
As a part of Helene's residencies at Glacier National Park & Beaver Creek Valley State Park, she held poetry & photography hikes for the public. Teaching both children and adults to write simple poems, using descriptive vocabulary about native birds, plants and animals can build learning connections between habitat and the senses (sight and touch). This offers a deeper relationship with the land than that of a bystander or simple tourist. Creating pairings of photos & poems of the park enable the telling of personal stories of an experiential nature, fostering the link between real life landscape and geological and natural history. To see a pdf version of the Glacier children's presentation, click [here].
) Over the River Whiskeytown National Recreation Area, CA 2008 | | ) The Weathervane Matthiessen State Park, IL 2010 | |
) Unusual Thoughts Matthiessen State Park, IL 2010 |
) Summer Coat Las Tramas Regional Park, CA 2007 | | ) Homestead 29 Palms (Joshua Tree), CA 2007 | |
) Autumn Rain Hot Springs National Park 2005 |
) Transitions Hot Springs National Park 2005 |
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) North Mountain Fog Hot Springs National Park 2005 |
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) Bootstraps Starved Rock State Park, IL 2008 |
) Whiskeytown is Burning Whiskeytown National Recreation Area 2008 |
) Brandy Falls Whiskeytown National Recreation Area 2009 |
) Route 2 Glacier National Park, MT 2011 |
) Ottawa Canyon Starved Rock State Park, IL 2008 |
) Corn Field, Route 71 Utica, IL 2008 |
"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere." Albert Einstein