By Every year since 2017, I have loved the The Universe in Verse. This year there is a new iteration:
“For four seasons, it remained a live gathering — thousands of embodied universes of thought and feeling, huddled together in a finite space built in a faraway time when Whitman’s living atoms walked the streets outside.
In this interlude between gatherings, as we face the biological and ecological realities of life with widened eyes, I have entwined visions with my friends at On Being to reimagine the spirit of The Universe in Verse in a different incarnation, a year in the making: a season of stories about epoch-making events, discoveries, and unsung heroes from the history of science — this common record of our search for truth and the native beauty of reality — each illustrated in poetry’s lovely abstract language, with an animated poem.”–Maria Popova
Learn more in this issue of The Marginalian: https://www.themarginalian.org/2022/02/04/universe-in-verse-animated-episode-1/?mc_cid=54ed1bd798&mc_eid=c6f1a02976. Episode 1 is lovely.
Open Arts Spring 2023 