This event is the first in a series of “conVERSations” about poetry and art held in conjunction with the “Varujan Boghosian: Material Poetry” Exhibition. Like Boghosian, poets are collectors, gathering “artifacts ancient and modern” from the world around them, from family and cultural histories, from dreams and imagination. Using the limitations of poetry to focus and contain—the way Boghosian used a physical frame—poets select and arrange and layer these “found objects” to make poetry that relies on both instinct and intention and often leads to unexpected places.

Poets Brett Warren and Lauren Wolk will discuss and read poems that illustrate their practice of paying attention to the world, responding to their perceptions, and following where the process takes them. The conversation will be followed by a Q&A.

Brett Warren is the author of The Map of Unseen Things (Pine Row Press, 2023). Prize-winning poet and visual artist Lauren Wolk is best known for her novels, especially the New York Times-bestselling and Newbery Honor-winning Wolf Hollow (2016). Included with general admission.

Members, free; Seniors, $8; Students, $8; Children under 12, free; Card to Culture, $2.

The Cahoon Museum participates in Mass Cultural Council’s Card to Culture program, the most comprehensive effort of its kind to open doors to arts and culture experiences for low-income families. EBT, WIC, and ConnectorCare card holders can purchase tickets for $2 each to the museum. Available in person. For more information, please email info@cahoonmuseum.org.