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The Burchfield Penney Arts Center is presenting a double-decker block of music on its front yard Friday evening, as part of its monthly Second Friday series.

Read what Bruce Adams wrote about Moog's Arists Seen project in the current issue!

Flip through the April 23 edition of Rolling Stone and chances are you’ll stop dead at page 24, where Philip Burke’s jarring illustration of Conan O’Brien stares out from the glossy paper and straight into the reader’s eyes.

Surrounded: Sampling Burchfield's Wallpaper at the Arkell Museum at Canajoharie, NY

Read Rebecca Rafferty's review in Afterimage.

Read what Buffalo State president Dr. Katherine Conway-Turner shared on Tumblr!

To immerse yourself in reading the work of poet Charles Wright is to move from the fragmentary, keenly observed particulars of the natural world and the consciousness of everyday experience to a parallel, meditative track that seems not so much a derivation of that experience than an uncovering of the deep structure of language and human thought that lies embedded within it.

The Burchfield Penney Art Center presents its annual Charles E. Burchfield Award to Charles Wright, the current U.S. poet laureate, in recognition of his “outstanding achievements in the arts which express a commitment to environmental sustainability” at an awards event and dinner.

Dove-twirl in the tall grass.
End-of-summer glaze next door
On the gloves and split ends of the conked magnolia tree.
Work sounds: truck back-up beep, wood tin-hammer, cicada, fire horn.