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Apr.28.2013 The Fourth Annual Ekphrastic Poetry Reading at the San Jose Museum of Art Rocked Few events soar as this one did. Sally Ashton brought together a diverse group that somehow came together for a memorable reading at the Museum. These are the talented group of poets from Silicon Valley and Santa Cruz and points in between, who read • ...	Apr.26.2010 Countdown to Publication: The Cover Story Before my first book, Eve's Red Dress, came out in 2003, I admired the cover art on the book of another poet I knew. When I attended the book party for that poet, I met Brian Rumbolo, the artist, and asked if he'd be interested in doing my cover art if my publisher agreed. He said Yes and my...
Apr.10.2010 Poets in Bloom I spent every day this week with third graders. Need I say that I'm really really tired? Third graders are adorable, so open to trying new things, so full of imagination. They write amazing poems. But oh my, the energy level. Forget about sitting down. I was on my feet the whole time for each of...	Mar.04.2010 Chris Mattingly discusses the literary term Ekphrastic Listen to the new podcast of poet Chris Mattingly discussing the literary termEkphrastic, and reading his poem, "The Saint of Raising Hell." Fourminutes well-spent! http://www.public-republic.net/literary-term-of-the-week Literary Term of the Week is brought to you by Katerina...
Jan.09.2010 Opportunity - Submit to Guest Editor's Portfolio - We Begin with the Visual We begin with the visual. Ekphrastic poetry is a response in words to a painting, photograph, dance, building, sculpture, Ikea catalog, child’s drawing, or bumper sticker. An ekphrastic poem begins with inspiration from another piece of art and with the intuitive understanding that art begets art...	Dec.17.2009 Do You Live Within Driving Distance of Seattle? Free Ekphrastic Poetry Workshop Speaking Pictures: A Poetry WorkshopSaturday, February 13, 2010 11 am“Painting is mute poetry, and poetry a speaking picture.” —Simonides “Look at the subject, think about it before photographing, look until it becomes alive and looks back into you.” —Edward Steichen Poets Susan Rich and Lillias...
Sep.21.2009 Rehash of Poetry Party The Poetry Party went really well. I was sort of nervous about the turnout as it was day 2 of Rosh Hashanah and there were two other readings going on not too far away, both with popular poets.But we had 25 poets and a handful of people who were there just to listen. The theme, "When Arts...	Sep.11.2008 Old Words, New Words My friend and fellow Red Room author Stewart Florsheim recently had his fine book of poetry, A Short Fall from Grace, featured in Pedestal Magazine, in a thorough and insightful review by Alice Osborn. Early on, Ms. Osborn declared Stewart a “master of the ekphrastic poem…” which sent at least two...