It’s no secret that I love ekphrastic poetry – it made up a large portion of my last collection, Bright Inhabited Lives. Right now a lot of the poems I’m working on feel more ekphrastic-adjacent, rather than purely ekphrastic. However, I couldn’t turn down the opportunity to submit a poem for The Poets Corner’s annual Art and Ekphrastic Poetry Challenge.
If you click on the link above, you’ll find the full list of winning poems and their accompanying artwork. Some poems are both based on the same piece, but with wildly different viewpoints, which is always fun. My poem, “Skating,” is among them, and it was a joy to join their reading last Sunday afternoon and hear all these incredible poems read aloud. What a feast.
If you’d like to hear a recording of the reading, you’ll find it here. (Full disclosure: I was outside of an airport, participating from my phone before hopping on a flight! But they tell me the sound quality was good, and I can vouch for the fantastic quality of the other readers).
Cheers to more poetry, art, and poetry + art!
