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PHOTOGRAPH BY GEORGE SAKKESTAD

Saratogapoet Mary Lou Taylor recently completed a 10-day artist residency program at Montalvo Arts Center. .It's a great environment to
be creative in,,
said Taylor, who is finishing two projects she started there.

Saratogapoetreturnsto her l4ontalvoroots

Taylor compleles
artist residency
By SnaNNoN BuRrpy
Jt's been more than 30 years
I sinceMary Lou Taylortook her
Ifirst poetrv classat Montalvo
Arts Center. Sincethen, her love of
wordshas taken her far, but it has
alsobroughther backto her roots.
The Saratoga poet, who first there over the years, says she was another that she conceivedof and
heardof the classat Montalvowhen honored to be asked to participate beganwhilethere.
shesawan ad in the SaratogaNews in the artist residency program.
i n t h e l a l e 1 9 7 0 sr .e c e n r l y T i n i s h e d "It was beautiful up there, and I
The first project, a 75-page
manuscript,is a book of original
a 10-dayartistresidencyat the cen- got a whole lot out of it," she said. poems called Finite Infinity. It will
ter. "Montalvo hasbeenvery good "Now ideas are coming to me all be her secondbook of original po-
to me. and it's a greatenvironment the time, and I think a lot of it was ems published.The other project
to be creative in," she said. "It's having that opportunity to go to is a 2S-pagechapbook-a pocket-
l i k ec o m i n gf u l l c i r c l eM
. y c a r e e irn Montalvo." sizedbooklet-with original poems
poetry startedthere." Though her residency ended in basedon her travelsthrouehAsia.
Taylor,who alsoservedbn Mon- January, Taylor is busy finishing "l just love writing.I write sev-
talvo'sboardof trusteesfor several two projects-one that she started
years and has had many readings working on while at Montalvo and Poet,page 30

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