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

‍ ‍ Jumping Boundaries, curated by Luke Gray, Litchfield, CT
‍ ‍https://alofft.com/show/alofft-gallery-litchfield-county-jumping-boundaries

2022      Winter Show, Furnace Art on Paper Archive, Falls Village, CT

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

Selected Readings, 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.” TheLakeville 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