Art Lessons

"Art Lessons" explores the connections between visual art and the written word. By incorporating the words and insights from Vincent Van Gogh's intuitive work and life, Ann Iverson's poetry reveals her keen insights into the mysterious interplay between art and poetry, happiness and sadness, God and nature.

Ann Iverson is the author of Come Now to the Window (2003) by the Laurel Poetry Collective and Definite Space (2007) by Holy Cow! Press. She is a graduate of both the MALS and the MFA programs at Hamline University. Her poems have appeared in a wide variety of journals and venues including Writer’s Almanac with Garrison Keillor. As a visual artist, she enjoys the integrated relationship between the visual image and the written image. Her art work has been featured in two art exhibits as well as at the University of Minnesota Amplatz Children’s Hospital. Ann has served in education in some capacity for over 25 years and currently serves as a Dean of Learning at Dunwoody College. She lives in East Bethel, MN with her husband.