Discipline: Literature – poetry

John Campion

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: Oakland, CA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1990
John Campion is a poet and the founder of the Ecotropic movement, oriented towards the preservation of the world’s ecosystem by improving humans’ relationship with nature. He is the author of numerous books of poetry including The Third Music, Sippapu the Kiva an Inverted Bat, and Where Three Roads Meet, and three large, book-length poems from a projected series of five: Tongue Stones (winner of the Austin Book and the Violet Crown Awards), Squaring, the Circle (winner of the Blue-Star Foundation Award for Art in Service to the Earth), and Medusa. Campion also creates art, fiction, essays, collaborations, translations, and philosophy. He has produced multi-media paintings; compositions in collaboration with Edmund Campion, his brother; and English translations of ancient works. He is the co-founder of The Open Theater, a poetry and arts non-profit, and teaches at the University of California, Berkeley.

Studios

MacDowell

John Campion worked in the MacDowell studio.

Built in 1912, Pine Studio was renamed MacDowell Studio in 1943 in recognition of support from a group of Edward MacDowell’s music students. It was built as a composers’ studio and the stuccoed walls were intended to be soundproof. Like many of the studios on property, MacDowell was winterized in the 1950s when the program began welcoming…

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