The coat of many colors & several hats...

Margot Farrington fell for words as soon as she could speak, and she’s been in the thick of them ever since. She also knows the power of silence, and how you can arrange to have it happen on the page if you’re thoughtful with text and with white space. And how to initiate something terrifying, or hilarious, or heartbreaking, or just plain factual in the most riveting way, all by way of keen selection, for the way of words demands choice after choice to achieve clarity and weight.

Margot shifts gears comfortably between writing of different kinds, able to work with people of all sorts. The “carnival mix” mentioned on her home page refers to artists, educators, corporate employees, college students, children, prison inmates, and others that she has written for and worked with. A life shaped from the discipline of theater and performance keeps pace with her writing life, where she writes steadily for her own projects or to help the projects of others. Below, a glimpse of both her written and spoken lives.

The Written

Author of two collections of poetry, including “Flares And Fathoms” (Bright Hill Press, 2005). Her work has been anthologized in seven anthologies, most recently in “Other Land: Contemporary Poems Of Wales and Welsh-American Experience,”(Parthian, U.K.) and “Cadence Of Hooves: A Celebration Of Horses” (Yarroway Mountain Press). See “People In The Wind” on the American Academy of Poets website. Essays, newspaper articles, reviews in such publications as The Brooklyn Rail, The Delaware County Times, Art International, ABR: American Book Review.

The Spoken

Theater, improvisation (Second City), and storytelling. Poetry-in-performance at museums, galleries, arts organizations, writers’ series, and libraries. Venues include: EMPAC at RPI in Troy, New York, The Katonah Museum, Katonah, NY, The Hague Conference On International Law, Hague, The Netherlands, Brooklyn Historical Society, Brooklyn, NY, Old Church Cultural Center, Demerest, NJ, The Painting Center, NYC, NY, The Barn at Wolbach Farm in Concord, MA, and many others.