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INSCAPES

JUNE 17TH 2PM-4PM EST via Zoom

INSCAPES, a collaboration with The Mastheads and MCLA-IAH, is an experiential poetry workshop that will kick off a regional campaign inviting participants to engage with a “call and response” creative prompt about Berkshire County. Select inscape poems will be featured in a short video and on billboards throughout Berkshire County this summer.

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About Sarah Trudgeon

Sarah Trudgeon is the author of the poetry chapbooks Dreams of Unhappiness and The Plot Against the Baby. Her poems and other writing have appeared in Eight

Miami Poets, The London Review of Books, The Nation, The Paris Review, The TLS, The Yale Review, and more. She is the literary director of The Mastheads and lives in Great Barrington, MA.

About Tessa Kelly

Tessa Kelly is the Director of Public Projects for Group Architecture and Urbanism (Group AU), a woman-owned design practice based in Pittsfield, MA. Tessa is a native of Pittsfield and a licensed architect trained at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She has led projects at Group AU merging design, local history, and community engagement, including the founding of The Mastheads, a literary program focused on local heritage and mobile writing structures, and the planning and design of the Westside Riverway Park, a community space connecting a neighborhood to its waterfront and providing infrastructure to reinvigorate a tradition of Block Parties, and Kellogg Park, an outdoor poetry space featuring a sculptural concrete alphabet. Her work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, Mass Development, and Mass Humanities, among others. Tessa has taught at the Yale School of Architecture and been a visiting critic at the architecture programs of Columbia University, the Rhode Island School of Design, and Williams College.