The Cannon Beach Library will welcome Portland poet and artist Daniela Naomi Molnar at 2 p.m. Saturday, April 26, for National Poetry Month.
This presentation won’t be livestreamed, but will be recorded and available to watch here later.
Molnar is a poet, artist and writer who works with color, water, language and place. Her debut book, CHORUS, won the 2024 Oregon Book Award for Poetry.
The book is described on Molnar’s website as a “celebration of language’s capacity to supersede bodily limits, mortality and existential loneliness. Daniela Naomi Molnar’s chorus encompasses violence, love, empathy, fear, a burning planet, a pandemic, heartbreak, desire, joy and grief. Rather than seeking resolution, these poems look through the lens of a fragmented self, dwelling in plurality, discord and harmony.”
She creates paintings using pigments made from plants, bones, stones, rainwater and glacial melt. Her writing develops alongside this work, with each practice influencing the other to form new ecologies.
Her work is the subject of a front-page feature in the Los Angeles Times, a PBS Oregon Art Beat profile, an entry in the Oregon Encyclopedia, and a feature in Poetry Daily.
Molnar’s art has been shown nationally, is in public and private collections internationally and has been recognized by numerous grants, fellowships and residencies. She founded the Art + Ecology program at the Pacific Northwest College of Art and helped start and run the backcountry artist residency Signal Fire.
