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Blue Flower Arts, LLC was founded by Alison Granucci in 2005. Today we represent many of the most distinguished and acclaimed poets, writers, and speakers of our time for readings, lectures, conferences, and special events at colleges, universities, theaters, and festivals. We are committed to fostering poetry, literature, and the arts in this country; and we are experts at connecting the right artist with the right venue. Alison has years of experience in programming, presenting, producing, and performing. She has curated programs with many celebrated artists, such as Sam Waterston, David Strathairn, Frank McCourt, Eve Ensler, Arlo Guthrie, and the late Spalding Gray.
Blue Flower Arts is named after the unfinished short story “Heinrich von Ofterdingen” by the 18th century German poet and philosopher Novalis. The young hero's quest for the blue flower, his Poetry, then became a symbol used by the Romantic poets for the soul's unfolding—and so has come to us as an emblem for the poetic transcendence of life. We are proud to work with a range of writers and speakers who hold in their creative work a sense of our yearning for that which is unattainable but necessary to the richness and meaningfulness of existence.
The design of our logo is a nod to the first important woman book designer in America, Margaret Neilson Armstrong (1867–1944). Armstrong, from an old New York family, created unique book covers—including 78 titles between the years of 1894 and 1896—for numerous publishing houses including G.P. Putnam and Charles Scribner's Sons, for whom she illustrated the cover of the Henry van Dyke book, The Blue Flower (1902), a collection of his short stories. She was a designer with a sensitive eye and a great skill to whom we all owe a debt of gratitude.