ekphrastic

I offer this ekphrastic poem as a commentary, and as a token of love:

Scott Cairns: The Dormition of the Mother of God 2010

So, for example, if a judge only read "nature poetry" and, by implication, that would mean only wanted to read "nature poetry", then it's highly unlikely that the competition's winner would be, say, a spoken word collection or an ekphrastic poetry collection based on Dutch paintings of tavern interiors.

Archive 2010-02-01 2010

Watching McKinley --- Painting and poem yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Watching McKinley --- Painting and poem'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: I painted Watching McKinley in July \'04 a year after a vacation to Alaska, and wrote the ekphrastic poem describing the painting in April \'07.'

Watching McKinley --- Painting and poem 2010

I offer this ekphrastic poem as a commentary, and as a token of love:

Scott Cairns: The Dormition of the Mother of God 2010

So, for example, if a judge only read "nature poetry" and, by implication, that would mean only wanted to read "nature poetry", then it's highly unlikely that the competition's winner would be, say, a spoken word collection or an ekphrastic poetry collection based on Dutch paintings of tavern interiors.

THOUGHTS WHILE JUDGING POETRY (#2) 2010

I had never heard of the word a couple years ago when Peter Bray from Benicia emailed me, "Your poem Watching McKinley is ekphrastic."

FIREFALL painting/poem 2010

I've been enjoying much of Tom Clark's ekphrastic writings -- he's certainly one of the more deeply enchanting practitioners of image-inspired poems out there, from a flying flock of Barnacle geese to extending the evocativeness of Egon Schiele .

THE BEAUTIFUL MIND OF TOM CLARK 2009

I wonder how much the poet drew inspiration from this particular visual artist (an ekphrastic or two, perhaps?), or if poet and painter are simply of like minds.

Wednesday Shout Out : Rigoberto González : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

A whole other level of ekphrastic poetry... so much of which becomes a matter of surface description with no bite, not depth of inquiry or emotion even though this form seems the province of lyric and/or formal poets.

70s classics poetry Ashbery Lemon Hound 2009

I've been enjoying much of Tom Clark's ekphrastic writings -- he's certainly one of the more deeply enchanting practitioners of image-inspired poems out there, from a flying flock of Barnacle geese to extending the evocativeness of Egon Schiele .

Archive 2009-08-01 2009

Broadly defined, an ekphrastic poem describes another work of art.

10 Ekphrastic Poems | JSTOR Daily Jonathan Aprea 2019