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Last night I participated in a truly unique poetry reading sponsored by Ekphrasis. A dozen of us poets dispersed ourselves amongst installations in the Sensing Spaces architectural exhibit a… Read More

It's no secret that poetry is among the most "elite" of art forms, right up there with contemporary classical music. When people say "ordinary people don't read poetry," what they mean is "w… Read More

 *Click for Poetry Workshop Info*The Rooster Moans:  Poetry Cooperative Dates: July 8 – August 4, 2012With Amy King For as long as we can remember, poets have addressed the… Read More

The postman dropped my contributor’s copy of Alice: Ekphrasis at the British Library through the mail slot just now. What a wonderful project they have taken on this time, gathering r… Read More

Human beings are subject to a continual process of bodily transformation, but shape-shifting also belongs in the landscape of magic, witchcraft, and wonder. Marina Warner, in her award-winni… Read More

For today’s prompt, write an ekphrastic poem. Ekphrasis sounds kind of complicated, but it’s just a fancy word for using a piece of art to inspire a poem. I’ve included a f… Read More

The poem, derived from the painting, The United Nations Building by Adolf Dehn, is one that attacks the very qualities that represents the what a united nation stands for. The piece is… Read More

We had been looking at properties in the High Peak for as long as I could remember. We had been gazumped more than once. This particular Saturday afternoon we went to a property in Furness V… Read More

My first poem is going to be very special, not special to you but special for me. This poem is going to be about something very important to me, the bathroom. Haha did you think I was going… Read More

Ekphrasis: Poetry Confronting Art - And first Hephasestus makes a great and massive shield, blazoning well-wrought emblems all across its surface, raising a rim Read More

Graduate designer Jake Goodall takes a rather conceptual approach to graphic design, often creating video pieces and performative routes to explore topics such as finding the perfect collabo… Read More

I’m afraid this month’s reading update is rather meagre. Not in quality – the opposite, in fact! – but because I haven’t been reading very much, skipping from… Read More

A little over a week ago I was announced local division winner of the 2017 Alan Marshall Short Story Award. At the same ceremony, I also received a local highly commended in the 2017 Nillu… Read More

There was a point at which the analog world was overtaken by the digital, and I was right there, stumbling through puberty from childhood to adolescence. I can’t resist ekphrasis. So w… Read More

Dua nama besar, yang satu seniman visual yang satu sastrawan (dan kini juga merambah dunia lukis): Hanafi dan Goenawan Mohamad (GM). Tidak ada konsep, tidak ada diskusi sebagai preseden, ha… Read More

The combination of school holidays and beginning to write a new book (excite!) has made me a little disoriented. In fact, I had a jolt of surprise when I took a look at the date – how… Read More

Note: Ekphrasis of Edvard Munch’s The Scream, After Linda Pastan’s Carnival Evening. This is a poem I wrote when I was in college, but I tweaked it a bit Despite the golden waves… Read More

Group photo of the winners, highly commended, judges, actor-readers and special guests I was one of the lucky winners at the Literary Nillumbik ceremony on Saturday 2nd September. The full… Read More

Bookish goings-on in Texas for the week of October 15-21, 2018: Special Events:Inkstravagaza Gala: The Writers Life, San Antonio, October 18Teachers, Write! Workshop for Language Arts T… Read More

The Guardian features winner of Man Booker Prize Anna Burns and her novel Milkman.The novel started with her teenage narrator, 18-year-old “middle sister”, who has a “devia… Read More

Part of me wonders at the use of writing this post midway through the first month of a new year (I have a little voice singing the line ‘The past is in the paaaaaast!’ from &lsqu… Read More

To compose a definition essay you’ve got to learn how to start picking a very good essay topic. In the event the essay isn’t preassigned to you by your instructor, it is advisabl… Read More

There is a special term to describe literary depictions of visual works of art: ekphrasis. Poems about pictures or paintings are, then, ekphrastic poems. But what are the greatest ekphrastic… Read More

Genre: Poetry Paperback 17 pagesProlific Press, 2019Get your copy hereCarole Mertz, author, poet, and editor, has had works published in literary journals, U.S., Canada, Great Britain, and A… Read More

The new issue of Brontë Studies (Volume 45 Issue 2, April 2020) is already available online. We provide you with the table of contents and abstracts:Emily Brontë: A… Read More

The Creative Path: A View from the Studio on the Making of Art, by Carolyn Schlam, published May 2018.This book is a recounting by the author of her beginnings in the 1960’s as a paint… Read More

La domenica andata e ritorno a Jersey City, in attesa all’angolo di Donnelly, dove Ristorante White Mana Squat in 24/7 Chrome Amishell. Dall’altra parte della strada, i pesi ma… Read More

Privet squeeze extends alto latch perma then a northframe arrest the milky dawn awake on drawn carpet necks birth decarbd done till 7’s never > at eyes save the last shyness &n… Read More

Authors Website Bronze Nazareth- The Precipice “The Precipice” is the first single from Bronze Nazareth the upcoming release “Ekphrasis” produced entirely by Roc… Read More

Musee des Beaux Arts By W. H. Auden About suffering they were never wrong, The old Masters: how well they understood Its human position: how it takes place While someone else is eating or op… Read More

One episode before the »Oonops Drops« summer break and it’s time for more good music from your host Oonops and his guest, producer and hip-hop DJ Seith from Canada. As usua… Read More

Note: 'Brearley' refers to the author's school. Caecilius est in horto? On my first day of Latin class in seventh grade, I didn’t know what to expect. I’d heard the horror sto… Read More

We welcome author Adriane Howell to discuss the inspiration behind her debut literary novel Hydra, I share my review, plus thanks to Transit Lounge Publishing two lucky AU/NZ readers will wi… Read More

DANVILLE The town of Danville is bringing back comedy to the Village Theatre with a live standup event Feb. 11 at 7:30 p.m. Enjoy a night of laughs from nationally known local comedians. Hos… Read More

WALNUT CREEK St. Paul’s Concert Series presents classical guitarist Aaron Haas in a spectacular performance at 7 p.m. Feb. 18. A native of Los Angeles, Haas is a prominent rising star… Read More

WALNUT CREEK The Diablo Vista Chorus, the Walnut Creek chapter of Sweet Adelines International, the 2022 Regional Championship chorus and the 2019 SAI Harmony Classic International champions… Read More

Poet and Author Sudeep Sen spoke exclusively to Information Glob at Jaipur Literature Festival 2023. He has authored prize-winning books, including Postmarked India: New & Selected Poems… Read More

Tsuktiben Jamir The Vadehra Art Gallery is a contemporary is a New Delhi-based contemporary art gallery that was established in 1987. The gallery’s ongoing group exhibition titled &lsq… Read More

PARIS, June 17, 2023 – The marriage of words and art has a profound history, though seldom have we seen it reach an equilibrium. Typically, elements of poetic language serve as impactf… Read More