The Kansas City Art Institute. in collaboration with UMKC, hosted the fifth operatic reading of poet of late Dina Von Zweck’s “A Day In The Park,” with musical accompaniment of the season on Tuesday March 12. Before passing away last December, Zweck wrote the poem during the wake of the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York, primarily writing on the experience of walking through Zuccotti Park. In the poem she describes the park, neighborhood and protestors with meticulous detail, while simultaneously falling into moments of extreme literary surrealism and symbolic writing. Her descriptions are physical as well as emotional, since she also described the feeling that the walk exuded. She addressed the CBS newsbreaks that were being presented during the protest and concluded with the eventual moment of police intervention. The poem … Read entire article »