Writing - Lynne Kemen

Our mission is to seek out, study, and collect the work of early and contemporary…

Shiversong … that feeling you get when you read a lyrical line in a poem…

I’m tempted toward gothic modes and drawn to characters who are wrestling with varying degrees…

As she serves them, she knows that soon, they will be overly warm.

Birds in branches, peacocks preen.

I love writing about art and see myself as a visual thinker.

The women I paint are always portrayed not just for their physical beauty but to emphasize…

… the dreamy interiority of the poets I loved felt like an untouchable refuge.

I paint in orange desire, he in glorious gold.

I enjoy rooms full of bright faces of all ages.

I realized that when you focus on one person, when you narrow the lens, it…

I love all kinds of writing and forms—it’s a chance to play, contort yourself into…