Saying, hearing, painting and looking

“Muse Becomes Poet,’’ by Boston area-based Donald Langosy, in his show “Art/Poetica,’’ at the Multicultural Arts Center, East Cambridge, Mass., Oct 10-Nov. 24. The gallery says the show explores “the time-honored relationship between poets and visual arts.’’

Some famous poets were also visual artists, such as E.E. Cummings (1894-1962), whose 1920 self-portrait is above. He was born in Cambridge, Mass., and died at his vacation house, in Madison, N.H., in 1962.

Maybe to Hell but at least moving

Silver Lake Railroad at center of Silver Lake village, part of Madison, N.H., where e.e. cummings (as he signed himself) had a weekend and summer place. He died at a hospital in nearby North Conway.

“America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.”

— E.E. Cummings (1894-1962), American poet and essayist. He was born in Cambridge, Mass., and is buried at Forest Hills Cemetery in Boston.

Joy Farm, also now known as the E.E. Cummings House, a National Historic Landmark

The pastor and the pop star

See this piece about the Rev. Paul Zahl and pop star Burton Cummings