Thank you for joining us for Raven Talk, Raven’s online podcast. 

We are hosting monthly conversations with writers, artists, cultural warriors. Today, art historian Susan Noyes Platt is talking to Ann Batchelor Hursey about her recently published book, Field Notes, To Maya Lin’s Confluence Project Landscapes.

Susan Noyes Platt

After many years as a tenured professor of art history, Susan Noyes Platt is currently an independent art historian and freelance art critic and curator, based in Seattle, Washington. Her most recent book is Setting Our Hearts on Fire, Collected Writings Volume 2: Essays on Artists from 1982 to the Present: Addressing Inequities and Inspiring a Future, expected publication date January 2022.

Ann Batchelor Hursey

Ann Batchelor Hursey's poems have appeared in Cascadia Review, Poemeleon, Crab Creek Review, and Floating Bridge Review, among others. Her poem, “What Lay Open,” was nominated by Penduline Press for Best of the Net (2012). Ann has taught creative writing to young writers with Powerful Schools and at The Richard Hugo House. A graduate of the Rainier Writing Workshop MFA at Pacific Lutheran University, Ann has been awarded writing residencies with Jack Straw Writer’s Program, Hypatia-in-the-Woods (Shelton, WA) and Soapstone: A Writing Retreat for Women (Oregon). Her first poetry collection, A CERTAIN HOLD was published by Finishing Line Press, 2014.

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