'It arrives with the salt taste of blood,
the hot-pepper burn on the tongue'
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Aromatica Poetica >
“The Flavors of Red” & Other Poems * Sharon Whitehill aromaticapoetica.com/2024/05/15/the…

I’m so excited to be involved in this experimental verbal description tour with the help of #BeMyAI - Whitney Museum next Thursday--May 9!
AI DESCRIBING AI—HAROLD COHEN: AARON:

whitney.org/events/harold-…

'Incense, you ask of me,
the green balsam of a forest—
I would rather be insensitive
to your needs, leave
a small incision on your wrist.”
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Sillage 4: Fille en Aiguilles * Poem + Essay * Jehanne Dubrow
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#NationalPoetryMonth
Aromatica Poetica
aromaticapoetica.com/2024/04/18/sil…

“There is a stranger in the fog
screaming into this harbor tonight.'

--From “Fog Man” one of 3 poems (plus recordings) by Michael Lee Johnson up today at @arpomag … Happy #NationalPoetryMonth !
“Fog Man” & Other Poems By Michael Lee Johnson aromaticapoetica.com/2024/04/09/fog…

Fragrant photo installations at Olfactory Art Keller plus image descriptions! Aromatica Poetica
Basenote Bitch * Elizabeth Renstrom * Fragrant Photos + Image Descriptions aromaticapoetica.com/2024/03/21/bas…

“When we are touched by an aromatic molecule, the molecule literally binds to one or more specific receptors in our body. Not just in our nose.'
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“The Molecules of Connectedness” * Book Excerpt * Florian Birkmayer, MD aromaticapoetica.com/2024/03/14/the…

This Sunday, March 17, 4pm, I’ll be leading a Verbal (and fragrant) Description tour and conversation with artist Elizabeth Renstrom for blind gallery goers and their friends! Free but please register:

tickettailor.com/events/olfacto…

Wow, a TPE double dipper! Thanks!

“Blind Signs: What Image Description Brings to Photography” published at NY Public Library ! Thanks to the work and help of lots of friends—blind and sighted—for this one, including Georgina Kleege and Shannon Finnegan (they/them) !
nypl.org/blog/2024/03/0…

Yay, soon!

I’m thrilled to present “Image Description and the Critical Blind Gaze” at NYPL Events in-person on March 8, 2pm! Free, but please register:

on.nypl.org/m-leona-godin

Yay, can't wait!

'Each drag show has always seemed to build the chapel I longed for as a child. The call and response, the intimacy, and the garb, which in particular holds the same weight as a priest's vestments.”
Aromatica Poetica
“Scent of Faith” * Nonfiction * Ro Miller aromaticapoetica.com/2024/02/15/sce…

Final chance to experience “Becoming Blind (as a Bat)”! After two sold-out performances at Olfactory Art Keller in January, I’m doing one last encore of this scented storytelling journey next Wed, Feb 21. Tickets are going fast—hope to hear you there!
tickettailor.com/events/olfacto…

Cool! Thanks!

“You learn how to hunt mushrooms if you are lucky. You learn from a friend, or from stumbling over them. You learn, then you forget, because the season’s short and the year’s long.'

By Michael Lewis-Beck Aromatica Poetica !
“WANTING” * Fiction * Mike Lewis-Beck aromaticapoetica.com/2024/01/30/wan…

Gorgeous #Perfume inspired poetry + prose...

The third in Dubrow‘s extraordinary Sillage series Aromatica Poetica pairs a #poem in the voice of Carnal Flower with a lyric #Essay about searching for the scent that is you, or maybe not so you…
Sillage 3: Carnal Flower * Poetry + Prose * Jehanne Dubrow aromaticapoetica.com/2024/01/11/sil…

Heartfelt thanks Leona for gorgeous post about my new book!
🙏💜🧡📗👀