“Visitation”
Artist Kate Baird: The smoke imagery attracted me to the poem—I thought it would be fun to try to draw smoke, which is a substance that is there and not there at the same time… Poet Noel Sloboda: I also really like how the ascending smoke runs against the text, slowing down the read and teasing out different moods from the poem.
Collaborators: Noel Sloboda teaches at Penn State York and serves as dramaturg for the Harrisburg Shakespeare. Festival. Kate Baird lives in New York City where she paints and reads as much as possible.