Poetry on Brick Street Presents
Joyce Brinkman

Joyce Brinkman is one of six poets whose poetry is represented in 25 foot, stained glass windows at the Indianapolis International Airport. A group of those poets have produced a book of travel metaphor, Rivers, Rails and Runways, and a book of postcard poems, Airmail from the Airpoets. She also collaborated with glass artist, Arlon Bayliss, on lighted glass art containing her poetry for the new addition of the Marion County Central Library. She is a strong proponent of poetry as public art and enjoys working with both visual and literary artists on projects. She has received residency fellowships from Mary Anderson Center for the Arts and the Vermont Studio. She used a two-year Creative Renewal Fellowship from the Arts Council of Indianapolis to connect the inspiration she received from her time in Spain with the Central American Hispanic culture through the teaching of soccer/poetry clinics in El Salvador. In 2013, she received an Indiana Individual Artist grant to explore cross-species poetic collaborations with orangutans at the new International Orangutan Center at the Indianapolis Zoo. She will share poems and insights from her time working with the Orangutans at the Zoo at this Poetry On Brick Street event.