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Tag Archives: museum

2967

11 April 2020Calvin Olsenart, concentric, COVID-19, earthcasting, field, Gyre, haiku, massive, museum, Museum Park, NCMA, open, park, poem, Poetry, Raleigh, social distancing, Thomas Sayre Leave a comment

“Earthcasting” artwork
Massive in an open field:
Concentric—nearly

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26 February 2020Calvin Olsen80, A million Times 80 Copper, art, awesome, clock, copper, gallery, Gregg Museum, haiku, Humans since 1982, museum, poem, Poetry, silence, spinning, unison Leave a comment

Silent gallery:
Eighty copper clocks spinning
Kaleidoscope style

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7 November 2019Calvin Olsengloves, haiku, imagination, kids, kids museum, kitchen, marbles, museum, play, poem, Poetry, power, propellers, submarine, The Beatles, toddler, yellow, yellow submarine Leave a comment

Yellow submarine
A toddler in kitchen gloves
Powers propellers

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20 July 2018Calvin Olsenapplause, Asheville, Burger Time, chef, games, haiku, high, high score, initials, museum, North Carolina, pinball, pinball museum, poem, Poetry, score, small, winning Leave a comment

Pinball Museum
High score with my initials
Small chef applauding

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30 March 2017Calvin Olsen21 Marbles, adults, alcohol, drinking, full, haiku, jump, jump rope, jumprope, kids, kids museum, marbles, museum, party, poem, Poetry, Raleigh, rope, sports, weekend Leave a comment

“21 Marbles”
Kids museum full of booze
Adults jumping rope

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14 February 2017Calvin Olsendinosaurs, fish, haiku, history, Light, museum, Museum of Natural History, natural history, nature, poem, Poetry, red, Room, skeleton, swordfish, T. Rex, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Washington D.C. Leave a comment

Swordfish skeleton
Tyrannosaurus Rex lit
Red in the next room

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14 February 2017Calvin Olsenart, colors, contemplation, frame, glasses, haiku, meeting, museum, paint, poem, Poetry, quiet, red, walls, white Leave a comment

Red and white walls meet
Thin man, glasses, contemplates
Poems in a frame

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13 June 2015Calvin Olsenarchitecture, art, Boston, columns, da Vinci, haiku, Hokusai, Leonardo, Leonardo da Vinci, Light, marble, MFA, museum, night, poem, Poetry, sketches, Water, wave Leave a comment

Lit marble columns
Sketches by Leonardo
And a famous wave

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16 April 2015Calvin Olsenart, bolts, Boston, chair, field trip, Glass, haiku, installation art, MFA, museum, Museum of Fine Arts, poem, Poetry, school, students Leave a comment

Green tinted plate glass
Bolted through to make a chair
Scatter of students

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18 October 2014Calvin Olsenfall, festival, museum, small town, telephone Leave a comment

Small town festival
Telephone Museum wall
Stretched through the thirties

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