Discipline: Literature – poetry

Joseph Spece

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: Medway, MA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2013
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Joseph Spece split his youth between Long Island and Massachusetts. His first book of poems, Roads, was published in 2013 and his avant-garde long volume of poems Bad Zoo was published in 2018. He worked on a manuscript for a second book tentativly titled How the Drowned Surface. Some people he admires are: G.M. Hopkins, E. Dickinson, E. Bronte, Tom Brady, H. Melville, Martha Graham, Erik Satie, Roger Federer, and Egon Schiele.

Studios

Schelling

Joseph Spece worked in the Schelling studio.

Marian MacDowell funded construction of this studio the year that the organization was established and the first artists arrived for residency. It was called Bark Studio until 1933, when it was renamed in honor of Ernest Schelling, a composer, pianist, and orchestral leader who served as president of what was then called the Edward MacDowell…

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