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Poetry Foundation
Join us for a poetry reading, artist talk, and reception to celebrate the opening of the exhibition Escaramuza, the Poetics of Home.
Theme
Poetry & Visual Arts
Poems in conversation with other art forms, such as painting, photography, sculpture, video, and architecture.
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- Events-Poetry FoundationAn evening of poetry readings by Elise Paschen and Esther Belin plus artist talks by June Carpenter and Lydia Cheshewalla, followed by a reception.
- Events-Poetry FoundationAn evening of performances and readings by Karen Finley, Jada Renée Allen, Odette Stout, and Ruby Que with Ále Campos.
- Events-Poetry FoundationA poetry reading featuring Cheryl Clarke, Harmony Holiday, Natalia Molebatsi, and Nikki Patin.
- PoemBy Nick Makohai. samo© as an alternative to blah ... blahblahblah. blahzooey ... bblahblah quasi-blah ... etc.
(in… - PoemBy Jayne CortezFrom white lightnin to
bowed heads in red
rooms of pregnancy
under blackness
spread out closed in
how do … 
- Events-Poetry FoundationA generative poetry workshop in conversation with the current exhibition, More Light!
- Events-VirtualA discussion and creative workshop on concrete poetry.
- Glossary Terms
An artist’s book (also called an artist book) is a book and a piece of art, often integrating various forms of content such as text, images, and materials. Artists’ books can explore complex relationships between content and form. They frequently push the boundaries of traditional bookmaking and are recognized for their unique, innovative approaches to combining visual art with narrative or conceptual frameworks.
- Events-VirtualA generative poetry workshop, “UnWoven Between the Disciplines: Poetry and Art,” created and led by Michelle Alexander.
- AudioPoetry Off the ShelfHelena and Nicholson Baker on drawing your loved ones, the horrors of the world, and finding your way back to beauty.
- Events-Poetry FoundationLuftwerk’s immersive interpretation of Aram Saroyan’s poem “lighght”
- CollectionBy Adam O. DavisPoetry, like the movie theater, is built out of dark and light. The ink and the page. The room and the screen.
- Glossary Terms
“Description” in Greek. An ekphrastic poem is a vivid description of a scene or, more commonly, a work of art. Through the imaginative act of narrating and reflecting on the “action” of a painting or sculpture, the poet may amplify and expand its meaning. A notable example is “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” in which the poet John Keats speculates on the identity of the lovers who appear to dance and play music, simultaneously frozen in time and in perpetual motion:
What men or gods are these? What maidens loth?
What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape?
What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy?
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard
Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on;
Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear’d,
Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone:
Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave
Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare;
Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss,
Though winning near the goal yet, do not grieve;
She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss,
For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!
Ah, happy, happy boughs! that cannot shed
Your leaves, nor ever bid the Spring adieu;
And, happy melodist, unwearied,
For ever piping songs for ever new. . . .
See W. S. DiPiero’s poem guide on Robert Browning for more on ekphrasis. Browse more ekphrastic poems. 
