Meg Day

2024 Poet-in-residence

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, in collaboration with the Academy of American Poets, welcomed Meg Day as the Poet-in-Residence for 2024. You can find the press release here or read about the residency via NC State or the Academy of American Poets.

Day’s residency, All Ears, had three key aims: to highlight Deaf poets as visual artists by welcoming them into the museum space in new ways; encourage the hearing-majority public to engage with American Sign Language and Deaf sonics through unexpected encounters; and to encourage people to reorient their understanding of language and fluency as visible, just as much as it is aural.

Guggenheim young poets: Making art with words

Guggenheim Young Poets: Making Art with Words is an activity booklet for young writers to engage with poetry within the museum’s architecture and exhibitions. Created by Day, the booklet focuses on aspects of visual poetry, concrete poetry, and ekphrasis to guide young folks through their exploration of the museum and the artwork within it. Visitors can request copies of Guggenheim Young Poets: Making Art with Words at the museum’s Admissions desk, download in advance, or complete at home alongside the collection online. You can download the booklet here.

ekphrasis in air
& sound/off

You can read The New York Times feature article on Day’s residency here.

Read more about Ekphrasis in Air, Day’s exhibition of Deaf poets signing in American and British Sign Language as a part of Sixth Stanza here.

Read more about Sound/Off, the culminating event of Day’s residency at the Guggenheim, here.

See more photos via reports from The Poetic Justice Institute and North Carolina State University’s College of Humanities & Social Sciences.