Poetry and Art Events

Classes

 

Ongoing Poetry Workshops at Scoville Memorial Library in Salisbury CT.
Once a month on Friday afternoons from 2-4 pm. Register here.

Selected Exhibitions

 2026  WRIT and WEFTED, Daphne:Art, Bantam, CT, April 4-June 7
   Review: https://thehartfordartspages.com/2026/04/17/spark-three-shows-to-see-this-month/
   Between the Lines, G-Town Arts, Georgetown, CT, February 14-March 28
   https://gtownarts.com/show/g-town-arts-between-the- lines#overview
 2025  Spectrum, Kristen Lorello, New York, NY
 2024  The Art of Language, curated by Lisa D’Amico, Cultural Alliance of Western CT
 

Interview: https://www.instagram.com/p/C_QsgqtxqWg/

2023

Tangled Language, Furnace Art on Paper Archive, Falls Village, CT
‍ ‍https://www.furnace-artonpaperarchive.com/sally-van-doren

2022

Winter Show, Furnace Art on Paper Archive, Falls Village, CT

2021 Collected Object, Longview Gallery, St. Louis, MO

Selected Reading, Interviews and Press

2026 Poetry Reading in conjunction with the exhibition WRIT and WEFTED Sunday, May 17. Reading at 2 pm.
  Gallery open house from 1-5 pm. Daphne:Art in Litchfield, CT RSVP: daphneadeeds@gmail.com
   ‍The Hartford Arts Pages, https://thehartfordartspages.com/2026/04/17/spark-three-shows-to-see-this-month/
2025

The 2River View, Featured Artist https://2river.org/2RView/29_3/default.html

2024 Jacket2: PoemTalk#197 “On Marjorie Welish’s “Begetting Textile” https://jacket2.org/category/tags/sally-van-doren
2023 Jacket 2: PennSound Podcast #76 https://jacket2.org/podcasts/sally-van-doren
 

Steidle, Stephanie. “Sally Van Doren Blends Written and Visual Arts.” Princeton Alumni Weekly. 

https://paw.princeton.edu/article/newsmakers-qa-sally-van-doren-84-blends-written-and-visual

 

Wilburn, Alexander. “The Art of Words With a Poet Turned Painter.” The Lakeville Journal.

‍ ‍https://tricornernews.com/compass-ae-art/art-words-poet-turned-painter

2022

Filreis, Al and Stafford, Anna Strong. The Difference is Spreading: Fifty Contemporary Poets on Fifty Poems UPenn Press.

Cover illustration. https://pennsylvania-press-us.imgix.net/covers/9780812253238.jpg

2021

The 2River View, Featured Artist. http://www.2River.org/2RView/25_3/default.html

2018   PoemTalk: “The After-Hell: A discussion of Sylvia Plath’s poem “The Stones” PoetryFoundation.org
 

PennSound:  Reading and Conversation with Al Filreis

 

Ramirez, Marisol. “Cultivating the next writers of the literary world.” UMSL Daily. https://blogs.umsl.edu/news/2018/06/01/writers/

2017

The Writer’s Almanac with Garrison Keillor, NPR. “The Book of Usable Minutes”The Writer’s Almanac

 

The Writer’s Almanac with Garrison Keillor, NPR. “Defiance” The Writer’s Almanac