Upper Market Gallery, San Francisco, Nov 8-10, 2024 Put nine artists together under the prompt INVISIBLE CITIES and an unspoken dialogue emerges. INVISIBLE CITIES takes its inspiration from Italo Calvino’s tale of a fictional conversation between the Mongol Emperor Kubla Khan and Marco Polo. The worlds conjured by the young explorer are inventions (magical, surreal, […]Read Post ›
This essay was originally published in 2024 by the Sebastopol Center for the Arts in the Reverberations 3 exhibition catalog, which is available for purchase here. Welcome to this third volume of Reverberations, in which the Sebastopol Center for the Arts has paired Northern California poets with individual works of art owned by intrepid Sonoma County collectors. […]Read Post ›
Now available for purchase. What some mighty fine poets are saying about New Species of Color: “I loved reading Tamsin’s Spencer Smith’s New Species of Color. I was immediately drawn into the irresistibly mysterious and original worlds of these poems: their charms, their sly humor, their precise questions and generous, open, suggestions of answers. Deeply intelligent, […]Read Post ›
This article originally appeared in Juxtapoz Magazine on June 24, 2021. Why do we even bother to look at art in this day and age? Is it for the hope of a deeper exchange or some promising sign, if not of a better life, of a finer, more dear appreciation of this one. In The […]Read Post ›
FMSBW has released Tamsin Smith’s Between First & Second Sleep with praise from poets, including Matthew Zapruder, Donald Beagle, Beau Beausoleil, Mary Julia Klimenko, and Kevin Killian, who wrote: “…a book to savor with great pleasure. It’s not only a kind of poetry new to me, it’s several kinds, each one impressive in a different […]Read Post ›
Tamsin Smith : everything indicates 