Matthew Zapruder pops-up with a reading in the Portland Art Museum galleries with his memoir Story of a Poem.
Zapruder is paired with the artwork Study in a Black Series by Bobby Fouther; found in the Black Artists of Oregon exhibit, on the 2nd floor of the Portland Art Museum.
Matthew Zapruder had an idea: to write a poem as slowly and intentionally as possible, to preserve its drafts, and record the painstaking, elusively transcendent stuff of its construction. It would be the capstone to a new collection of poetry, and a means to process modern American life in a time of Covid, mega fires, and sobriety. What Zapruder didn’t anticipate was that this literary project would trigger a deeply personal aspect as well: a way to resolve the unexplored pain and unexpected joys he was confronting in the wake of his son’s diagnosis with autism.
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