Poetry Reading with Elizabeth Holden
Saturday, January 6th, 2024 at 11 AM
Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center {120 College Street}
Free and Open to All
Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center presents a conversation and poetry reading with Elizabeth Holden. Holden will read from her newly published book, Reflections: Poems & Images.
Holden is a longtime resident of Black Mountain, North Carolina, having moved to the Asheville area in 1970. She has been involved in the arts all her life. In earlier days living in New Haven, Connecticut, she photographed poets for the Yale Series of Younger Poets. She has explored different mediums, always as a means to express her inner life, especially through painting and poetry. She has taught courses on dreams from a Jungian point of view and on literary works like Moby Dick. Her work has been published in the Asheville Poetry Review and The Virginia Quarterly Review. Her poems reveal her lifelong interests in psychology, dreams, and literature. Holden has a special connection to BMCM+AC: her daughter, Mary Holden Thompson, founded the museum in 1993.
About the book:
Reflections: Poems & Images by Elizabeth W. Holden is a collection of poems, paintings (“meusches” as she calls them) and photographs from over her lifetime. They respond to memories drawn from her 94 years and express her abiding focus on the inner life, both of her experience and of the world around her. These works also reflect her love of the beauty in nature and capture those moments of reflection that bring one in touch with the deeper meaning of one’s own life.
The book contains the following sections: Seasons, Family, Nature, Places, Memories, Daydreams, Contemplative, Life, and Love.