by Kyle Pierson | Aug 13, 2020 | Published
Janet Echelman named her 2020 sculpture “Bending Arc” to echo a quote Martin Luther King made famous, “The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.” When Echelman researched St. Petersburg’s Spa Beach location for her new...
by Kyle Pierson | Aug 13, 2020 | Published
To find Flamingo using Google Maps, drop a locator pin where the beach meets Florida Bay. Follow the driving directions from Homestead, then fork off U.S. Hwy.1 and cut though 38-miles of palmetto scrub, traveling southwest until the road dead ends at two pink...
by Kyle Pierson | Aug 13, 2020 | Published
Volume 1, Issue 6, 2017 A Spare Tire for the One Percent In September 2016, waves from Category 1 Hurricane Hermine dumped a heavy-construction tire on exclusive Belleair Shore, whereupon it dug itself into the sand. If I were superstitious, the tire might have...
by Kyle Pierson | Jan 7, 2019 | Published
I’m welcoming 2019 with my newly published article in the Journal Wild Culture. Artist Pitor Janowski’s works to reveal our physical world before gentrification makes it disappear. He wraps large, familiar objects, such as trains and whole buildings, in foil to give...
by Kyle Pierson | Dec 1, 2017 | Published
I had two goals when I created “Poetry Spots” on the SPC Seminole campus where I teach in the heart of Pinellas County. First I wanted students to discover the little oasis of natural Florida tucked away on campus and connect that environment to Florida...