“Squint” painting by Colin Page

Join us for a live reading of the fourth annual Ekphrastic Poetry challenge, a collaboration between Page Gallery and The Poets Corner. The art is available for viewing online at Page Gallery’s website.

Ten poets have been selected to read their poems on The Poets Corner over Zoom on Sunday, November 10, 4:00pm - 5:30pm.

And for those of you wondering: What is ekphrastic poetry?

This is an excellent description written by Jackie Craven on thoughtco.com 11.5.18:

“Ekphrastic poetry explores art. Using a rhetorical device known as ekphrasis, the poet engages with a painting, drawing, sculpture, or other form of visual art. Poetry about music and dance might also be considered a type of ekphrastic writing.

The term ekphrastic (also spelled ecphrastic) originates from a Greek expression for description. The earliest ekphrastic poems were vivid accounts of real or imagined scenes. Through effusive use of details, writers in ancient Greece aspired to transform the visual into the verbal. Later poets moved beyond description to reflect on deeper meanings. Today, the word ekphrastic can refer to any literary response to a non-literary work.