This time-lapse video of Seamus Berkeley creating a portrait of Ashley might teach poets a good deal about the writing process. Seamus and I were involved in a project that surfaced last October at The Rane Gallery in Taos (see the second event mentioned here). The event was called “Interwoven Illuminations,” and it involved poets writing in response to works of art, with artists in turn creating art in response to poems—all in sequence, starting with a painting by Bill Rane. Neither the poets nor the artists knew whose work they were responding to.Read More