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Noelle Bowden reads "Sunset Trail" by Diane Sherman

Poet and artist Noelle Bowden
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Poet and artist Noelle Bowden

A twilight sky takes on the colors of exotic spices as a dance begins with the city below

Noelle Bowden is a recent graduate from Eastern Washington University, having earned a BA in Creative Writing and a BFA in Fine Arts. She grew up in Spokane and is currently an artist-in-residence at the Spokane Public Library's creative space, The Hive, where she is working on a series of abstract paintings in relation to a collection of poems that she plans to self-publish.

Her work is heavily influenced by the cyclical seasons of nature, ephemerality, the structure of language and all things abstract.