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Links to Ekphrastic Poetry
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Links to Ekphrastic Poetry

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Some examples of ekphrastic poetry by women poets on-line:

Winter 2006 - Volume I Issue 2 of Poemeleon is devoted to ekphrastic poetry -- many are Wompos!
http://www.poemeleon.org/journal-archives/

Alicia Ostriker's Nude Descending--
Poetry Foundation:
http://tinyurl.com/5m4qxk

Anne Sexton 's The Starry Night--
Poetry Foundation:
http://tinyurl.com/6zoqel

The Family Photography by Vona Groarke--
Poets.Org:
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/16702

Photograph of People Dancing in France
by Leslie Adrienne Miller--
Poets.Org
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/16322

A number are to be found on this site
http://tinyurl.com/5axyfe

and "The Poet Speaks of Art"
http://tinyurl.com/6rcn9 including--

Paul Delvaux: The Village of the Mermaids
by Lisel Mueller

Girl Powdering Her Neck
by Cathy Song

Van Gogh's Bed
by Jane Flanders

Mourning Picture
by Adrienne Rich

Hiram Powers' Greek Slave
by Elizabeth Browning

Women Before an Aquarium
by Patricia Hampl

Matisse's Dance
by Natalie Safir

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Re: Links to Ekphrastic Poetry
« Reply #1 on Nov 17, 2008, 3:43am »

Alicia Suskin Ostriker's collection of poems, No Heaven,

has a number of excellent ekphrastic poems.

Click the title to take you to the book page on FEST.

Louisa

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