UMBC Director of Marketing Jenny O'Grady and UMBC Senior Lecturer and poet Michael Fallon will present on their recent works interweaving art and poetry. 

Michael Fallon set himself the task of writing a book of poems inspired by his own spontaneous photographs taken on walks with his wife, Ruth, and chose the most interesting shots from these walks, be they of discarded plastic bottles, water meters, tree trunks, his and Ruth’s shadows, or reflections of clouds, forest and sky. Fallon will recite the poems while the corresponding photographs are projected on a screen. 

Jenny O'Grady edits The Light Ekphrastic, a quarterly journal that pairs writers and artists from all over the world to create new works online and for public spaces. In March of 2015 O’Grady will pair sixty-six Baltimore-area writers and artists for a special edition of The Light Ekphrastic published online and via the Baltimore LED Art Billboard. In addition to sharing some favorite works from the past five years, she will discuss some of the many routes her participants take as they go from being strangers to collaborators.