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Eric Elshtain

@eric_elshtain

Homemaker, Teaching Poet, Field Museum Poet-in-Residence

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Drafted while helping Field Museum patron's make erasure poems with pages from Bram Stoker's Dracula...for the Bloodsuckers: Legends to Leeches exhibit closing event. fieldmuseum.org/exhibitions/bl…

Drafted while helping Field Museum patron's make erasure poems with pages from Bram Stoker's Dracula...for the Bloodsuckers: Legends to Leeches exhibit closing event. 
fieldmuseum.org/exhibitions/bl…
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Very drafty--but I think it's onto something. Not the idea--it's not mine--but the idea maybe coalescing into a decent poem. The handwriting reads, "Will all those animals be released from history?"

Very drafty--but I think it's onto something. Not the idea--it's not mine--but the idea maybe coalescing into a decent poem. The handwriting reads, "Will all those animals be released from history?"
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It's been a little while--but here's a poem written for a long-time Field Museum volunteer. Mary provided the content, I added an idea and sculpted it into a poem...

It's been a little while--but here's a poem written for a long-time Field Museum volunteer. Mary provided the content, I added an idea and sculpted it into a poem...
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Thank you to Haley for her love of mollusks. We also had a fascinating discussion about Watergate and the historical patterns of distrust in government. That part of our conversation colored this poem in political tones.

Thank you to Haley for her love of mollusks. We also had a fascinating discussion about Watergate and the historical patterns of distrust in government. That part of our conversation colored this poem in political tones.
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Three days, thirty cat poems. One of my favorites is about two cats named Spatula and Plunger. A few lines, based on the humans' description of the cats, read: sometimes your minds seem as inert as the objects you're named after...

Three days, thirty cat poems. One of my favorites is about two cats named Spatula and Plunger. A few lines, based on the humans' description of the cats,  read:

sometimes your minds seem
as inert as the objects
you're named after...
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Two about science/art and art/science. Of all the amazing aspects of the Field Museum, I think I have written most about the dioramas and Quetzalcoatlus...

Two about science/art and art/science. Of all the amazing aspects of the Field Museum, I think I have written most about the dioramas and Quetzalcoatlus...