“The concept of poet and painter collaborations had to await my adolescence, and then it occurred in a way I myself didn’t understand at the time. I’d been given a book on Picasso for Christmas. One of the chapters described Picasso’s collaborations with various poets, including Paul Éluard, Max Jacob, and André Breton. On the flyleaf of the book I neatly inscribed a poem by Apollinaire that I’d found in a library book. It was the only way a fourteen-year-old schoolboy could collaborate with Picasso and Apollinaire.”
–From Trevor Winkfield’s essay “The Collaborator”

Stop by the Poetry Foundation library tomorrow, January 17, during our monthly Special Saturday Hours and check out our section of books related to the exhibit Trevor Winkfield’s Pageant. The library and gallery space will be open from 10 AM–3 PM. Or visit the library during our regular weekday hours, 11 AM–4 PM, Monday–Friday, 61 West Superior Street.

Photos by Jeffery “Hitch” Hitchens and Polly Faust