“Fallingwater Salad” and other Poetic Images
Across the state of Maryland budding young poets are putting pen to paper to write ekphrastic poetry. Using iconic images of American art found in the National Endowment for the Humanities Picturing America, the Maryland Humanities Council’s team of poets Laura Shovan, Liz Rees, Julia Kudravetz, Adele Steiner and Matthew Smith are teaching students to write poems about art. Click here to read more about a Fallingwater salad; a cityscape of rubies and diamonds; a broken hearted house by a railroad; climbing ladders that twist and turn; and a scythe that feels like a gun.
May 18th, 2009 at 9:51 am
I used to write quite a bit of poetry, much based on reflections on artwork (mostly lat 19th and early 20th century impressionist art). Looking at this project has inspired me to exercise my much atrophied “poetry muscle.” Maybe in a few months I will feel like a poet again. Thanks!
Drawing Yamoto
Dusty colors
Across the horizon
Misty water trickling
Over Polished stones
Grey-green pines
Twisted branches
Moss creeping
Across the rocks
The moon
Orbed in daylight
Barely seen
Behind pastel clouds
Dark-haired women
In shimmering cloth
Printed with soft pink
Purple flowers
Red lips
Glowing skin
I stop longest
Among the yellows
December 22nd, 2010 at 3:54 pm
i eat every kind of salad, but my favorite is of course fruit salad and chicken salad ~.”