One of the great Romantic poets and husband of Mary Shelley (who wrote Frankenstein), Percy Bysshe Shelley, had a few words to say about poets way back in the early 1800s:
Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present; the words which express what they understand not; the trumpets which sing to battle, and feel not what they inspire; the influence which is moved not, but moves. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
Come to the Carrot September 17th to celebrate Alberta Arts Days to see if he was right. Award-winning Saskatchewan writer Shelley A. Leedahl will present her first multi-media project "Understory: Greig Lake Suite," a mélange of still photography, guitar, vocals, video and, of course, poetry. Leedahl has published eight books (poetry, novels, short fiction collections and the popular illustrated children's book, The Bone Talker), and is regularly invited to present in schools and other venues. She has received a number of national and international fellowships, and her poetry, fiction and creative non-fiction are frequently anthologized. Leedahl recently moved to Edmonton, and she would love to mingle with her new literary community.
www.poets.ca/linktext/direct/leedahl.htm
Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present; the words which express what they understand not; the trumpets which sing to battle, and feel not what they inspire; the influence which is moved not, but moves. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
Come to the Carrot September 17th to celebrate Alberta Arts Days to see if he was right. Award-winning Saskatchewan writer Shelley A. Leedahl will present her first multi-media project "Understory: Greig Lake Suite," a mélange of still photography, guitar, vocals, video and, of course, poetry. Leedahl has published eight books (poetry, novels, short fiction collections and the popular illustrated children's book, The Bone Talker), and is regularly invited to present in schools and other venues. She has received a number of national and international fellowships, and her poetry, fiction and creative non-fiction are frequently anthologized. Leedahl recently moved to Edmonton, and she would love to mingle with her new literary community.
www.poets.ca/linktext/direct/leedahl.htm
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