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.