The mobile museum program “Wonders on Wheels” will be visiting the
Roswell Public Library Tuesday, May 30, from noon to 3 p.m.
New Mexico Arts (NMA) and Wonders on Wheels Mobile Museum (WoW) are working
together to bring “WoW, Poetry!” Poet Laureate Lauren Camp and NMA Executive Director
Michelle Laflamme-Childs will be participating in WoW events this summer to engage
youth and other community members in two special poetry projects.
Camp will talk about ekphrastic poems, a special kind of poem written about art, and will
work with WoW visitors to write poems using the Gustav Baumann prints on display in the
mobile museum as inspiration. In addition, Camp and Laflamme-Childs will be collecting
lines of poetry written by WoW visitors to a specific prompt to create crowdsourced poems
specific to each community. The final poems will be printed by the N.M. History Museum’s
Palace Press with prints gifted back to each community, and when the project is complete,
all the final poems will be displayed in a public exhibition.
The program is free to participate and is sponsored by the New Mexico Museum of Art.