Sunrise light on a grove of tufa towers emerging from the water of Mono Lake with soft green and dusty-red wild grasses in the foreground, Canada geese in the shallow water with reflections of the rocky towers, and desert hills in the distance.

Poetry & Place by Jim Cokas at the Mono Lake Committee

Sunrise light on a grove of tufa towers emerging from the water of Mono Lake with soft green and dusty-red wild grasses in the foreground, Canada geese in the shallow water with reflections of the rocky towers, and desert hills in the distance.

This post was written by Jessica Schneider, 2015-2020 Office Director, 2011-2013 Information Center & Bookstore Manager, and 2010 Information Center & Bookstore Assistant.

Poetry in Motion

A draft from the bookstore entrance
drifts by
grabbing hanging broadsides
to breathe life into their words.

A flying flock, bristly branches, straying streams
take place of print and paper.

Twisting, rustling, back, forth, up and down:
silent unless provoked
art, poetry, movement are married.

Still lives need not apply.

Brief though it be
in the Theater & Gallery
lives true poetry in motion.

—Jessica Horn, Mono Lake Committee Information Center & Bookstore Manager

Join us for the opening of Poetry & Place: Tuolumne Meadows Broadside Project—poetry inspired art and design by Jim Cokas in the Mono Lake Committee Theater & Gallery, August 20, 2012 at 4:00pm.

28 limited letterpress broadsides printed for the Tuolumne Meadows Poetry Festival are on display at the Mono Lake Committee Information Center & Bookstore.

Jim Cokas’ new pieces will also be featured at the Tuolumne Meadows Poetry Festival August 18 & 19 at Parsons Lodge.