Video artist Marc Neys has produced a video rendering of a passage out of Robert Schultz’s poem, “When the Magnitude of the Possible Dawned.” The video, a product of the Poetry Storehouse initiative, can be found below. Neys discusses the video and his creative process on his site, Swoon.
Robert Schultz chaired a panel at the American Literature Association’s annual convention in Boston, Spring 2015, that examined American writers’ responses to war. He was invited to do so by Ethan Knight, the panel organizer, because one of the papers treated War Memoranda, the word & image collaboration between Schultz and artist Binh Danh. Dr.…
Tom Liljenquist, donor of the Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War portraits (Library of Congress), visited the “War Memoranda” exhibition at the Taubman Museum. Mr. Liljenquist also had loaned a group of Civil War ambrotypes and tintypes to accompany the leafprints made from images in his collection.
The Library of Congress updated its catalog when a previously unidentified Confederate soldier was identified by a descendant in a leafprint included in the “War Memoranda” exhibition, Roanoke, Virginia. Read the full article at The Roanoke Times.
At the 2015 Virginia Festival of the Book, Charlottesville, Virginia: Katherine McNamara (From the First Beginning, When the Animals Were Talking), Deborah Prum (BackTalking on the Mountain of God), Robert Schultz (Ancestral Altars), and Katherine Young (translator, Two Poems by Inna Kabysh) discuss the art of the multi-touch digital book, which now includes text, voice,…
Katherine McNamara, publisher-editor of Artist’s Proof Editions, created multidimensional treatments of two poems in Robert Schultz’s book, Ancestral Altars. The “moving poem” of “Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Night” combines original photographs, appropriated images, sound effects, and audio of the poet reading his poem. McNamara’s treatment of “Ancestral Altar, No. 7” features the gradual presentation of the…
A collection of poems by Robert Schultz with art by Binh Danh and “moving poems” created by the Artist’s Proof Editions team has been published as an iBook and is being distributed via iTunes beginning March 1, 2015. Ancestral Altars includes texts, artworks, audio, and video productions of two poems, “Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Night” and…
Sunday, September 22, 2013 in the East Building of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, collaborators Binh Danh and Robert Schultz spoke about their exhibition, “War Memoranda: Photography, Walt Whitman, and Renewal.” The slide talk treated their project in relation to the NGA’s exhibition, “Tell It with Pride,” centered on the 54th Massachusetts Regiment—the…
Each year the publishing house Taylor & O’Neill issues a call for photographs on a given theme, selects its favorite images, then invites writers to respond to them with poems or short prose passages. The final selections are then issued in an “Open to Interpretation” anthology, richly produced in a large format, cloth bound book.…
The Hudson Review’s Summer 2013 edition includes a poem by Robert Schultz adapted from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay, “Circles.” The poem borrows, revises, and reorders Emerson’s language and themes to make a sculpted free verse poem that includes the lines, “Our way of life is wonder-filled / Abandonment, it whispers to us.”
A sonnet by Robert Schultz, “Not with a Bang but a Tweet,” was Poem of the Day for July 31, 2013 on Scribners’ Best American Poetry blog. Three previous poems by Schultz were featured on the blog in August 2010. “Reflective,” “Drifting Souls,” and “A Place” appeared with images of the artworks by Binh Danh…
As part of The Hudson Review’s New York area Writers-in-the-School’s program, editor Paula Deitz and Robert Schultz visit classrooms where Schultz discusses his essay “Hardball” with students and responds to their original work.
“The Butterfly Portrait,” a poem by Robert Schultz in the Summer 2013 issue of Able Muse contemplates Whitman’s favorite photograph of himself, and includes quotations from Whitman, A. R. Ammons, Sir Philip Sidney, and an Easter hymn printed on the cardboard butterfly wired to Whitman’s finger in 1877 when the portrait was made.
Binh Danh’s recent exhibition, The Grass Over Graves (Washington & Lee University, Lexinton, VA, January 4 – Febuary 4, 2011), included work growing out of his collaboration with Robert Schultz. A Daguerreotype portrait of Schultz next to a Daguerreotype rendering of his poem, “Amulet,” was in the exhibition. The poem describes a wounded U.S. Civil War soldier looking at his beloved in a small Daguerreotype photograph that he keeps in a locket hung around his neck. When he looks at the picture’s metallic surface he sees his own face mingled with hers. A visitor to the gallery who read the poem there saw his or her face reflected among the…
During a sabbatical year in 2010 Robert Schultz worked on his novel-in-progress, How the Future Was, in a mountain home in North Carolina courtesy of a Robinson-Lineberger residency. The residency is an initiative of the Lutheran Writers Project which makes its administrative home at Roanoke College and annually sponsors a symposium there. Past topics have included…
