Steve Bellin-Oka is the next 'Poets in Parks' Gettysburg Resident Poet for the National Parks Arts Foundation
CHICAGO, June 21, 2019 —The National Park Arts Foundation (NPAF), the Poetry Foundation, the National Parks Service, and the Gettysburg Foundation announce Steve Bellin-Oka as the 2019 Poets in Parks artist-in-residence. Poets in Parks is a unique partnership expressly designed and curated to raise the profile of poetry as a vibrant and modern public art. Bellin-Oka is the second Poets in Parks resident, and will spend one month in residency at Gettysburg National Military Park with a $1,000 stipend. "The beauty and variety of United States national parks provide fertile ground for growing dialogue around poetry, shared history, and art as a public service," said Stephen Young, program director at the Poetry Foundation. "We're excited to have Mr. Bellin-Oka continue these conversations as the new Poets in Parks resident. The relationship between the past in present in his work is well-suited to Gettysburg, where history is both commemorated and alive."
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