Tzara
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Yeah, I know. I'm using odd words again. So go read this. It over-generalizes stuff, but covers the basics.
OK, done? Good. Ekphrastic poetry is simply poetry about another form of art. I'd like to restrict that a bit for the challenge, if I may (and since it's my challenge, I guess I can freakin' do whatever I want), and suggest that you write a poem about a visual work of art. Painting, sculpture, photograph, whatever.
Oh yeah. Make it something you can link to so we know what the hell you're writing about. That's important. Don't care if you want to write about something famous (La Gioconda, for example) or some local artiste. Even some art of your own. We have a number of poets here who are talented visual artists as well. That's perfectly OK. Just show us the picture (or sculpture or photo or whatever) so we can judge how well the whole thing works.
Prototypical example: Hey, only from the best the Twentieth Century has to offer. How 'bout two poems describing Pieter Bruegel the Elder's Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, in the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Brussels.
This is a fabulous painting. I've actually seen the real thing and it is way, way better in person than even in reproduction.
Oh, and then there are the poems. By two of the 20th Century's, like, most awesomely gifted poets: W. H. Auden and William Carlos Williams. Both wrote about this particular painting. Like here: Auden or here Williams.
Awesome stuff.
So, hey. Do yer best to emulate them about something that means something to you, 'K? Any length, any form (including free verse), any number of submissions. You control the vertical and the horizontal.
Oh. Deadline November 30, midnight PST.
'Cuz that's where I live.
OK, done? Good. Ekphrastic poetry is simply poetry about another form of art. I'd like to restrict that a bit for the challenge, if I may (and since it's my challenge, I guess I can freakin' do whatever I want), and suggest that you write a poem about a visual work of art. Painting, sculpture, photograph, whatever.
Oh yeah. Make it something you can link to so we know what the hell you're writing about. That's important. Don't care if you want to write about something famous (La Gioconda, for example) or some local artiste. Even some art of your own. We have a number of poets here who are talented visual artists as well. That's perfectly OK. Just show us the picture (or sculpture or photo or whatever) so we can judge how well the whole thing works.
Prototypical example: Hey, only from the best the Twentieth Century has to offer. How 'bout two poems describing Pieter Bruegel the Elder's Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, in the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Brussels.
This is a fabulous painting. I've actually seen the real thing and it is way, way better in person than even in reproduction.
Oh, and then there are the poems. By two of the 20th Century's, like, most awesomely gifted poets: W. H. Auden and William Carlos Williams. Both wrote about this particular painting. Like here: Auden or here Williams.
Awesome stuff.
So, hey. Do yer best to emulate them about something that means something to you, 'K? Any length, any form (including free verse), any number of submissions. You control the vertical and the horizontal.
Oh. Deadline November 30, midnight PST.
'Cuz that's where I live.