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benjaminMarj Hahne

Poet
Lafayette, CO

www.marjhahne.com

Marj Hahne considers herself first a teacher, then a poet, having taught poetry writing, high-school mathematics, English-as-a-Second-Language, Business English, and arts and crafts. A freelance editor and writer, Marj has performed and taught poetry at over 100 venues around the country, as well as been featured on public radio and television programs. Her poems have appeared in literary journals, anthologies, and several art exhibits, and have been incorporated in the work of visual artists and dancers. She has a poetry CD titled notspeak. Marj hosts a weekly radio show on Holistic Globe Radio, called Coffee Folk, an inquiry-based conversation series bridging the arts, sciences, humanities, social entrepreneurship, and mind/body/spirit.

About the DIA Project
I’m writing a prose poem for every element in the Periodic Table of Elements up to Uranium-92, the last naturally occurring element. After researching each element and making associations between the element’s scientific and cultural “stories” and the stories of my life and the larger world, I allow the language to locate the theme(s) emerging from those associations. In the way that “happy accidents” occur in the artistic (and even scientific!) process, distinct themes are emerging, albeit fluidly, across batches of consecutive elements: for example, the first five elements (Hydrogen through Boron) explore personal/micro and global/macro tragedies; the enclosed next three elements (Carbon through Oxygen) explore the Earth as an expressive, emoting organism; and another five explore the uncertain emotional, cultural, and political terrain that sexuality is.

Prose allows, for me, a broader variety of subject matter and tone to be revealed in the absence of the rhythmic and compression demands that lineated poetry imposes. A prose-poem series is an effective structure for nonlinear memoir; and, in this case, the series of 92 elements will present a randomly diverse cross-section of my blip in the human timeline.

 

 


 

  

33 IDEAS!, an exhibit of art, writing and ideas
March 15-June 15, 2010

Denver International Airport

DIA PostcardThis exhibit showcases visual and literary artists associated with Colorado Art Ranch as presenters, artists in residence, or Nomads at one or more Artposia. The artists were selected because they use their passion, skills, knowledge, and talent to ask questions and react to the world around them. The work, in turn, inspires us to ask questions and view the world from different perspectives.

33 IDEAS! is on display at the Ansbacher Hall: The Art of Colorado, on the walkway between the terminal and A Gates before the security screening. The hall is accessible for everyone’s enjoyment.

For more information contact DIA Art Program at
(303) 342-2521 or visit www.flydenver.com/art

 

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