Ekphrastic writing (poems, fiction, or creative nonfiction) is inspired by works of art (painting, sculpture, photography, or even architecture, music, or film) that attract, mesmerize, pierce or ...

For those who follow poetry challenges on Morning Edition, our new one involves a vocabulary lesson: ekphrastic. Ekphrastic poems respond to a piece of art. According to the Poetry Foundation: Through ...

And in honor of the month, here’s a “Jeopardy!” style quiz. Remember English Class for $200: “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” studied by many students in English classes, was written by John Keats and is also ...

In 1981, Laura Mulvey famously amended her original contentions in "Visual Pleasure" (1973) to introduce the notion of a "female gaze." Through ekphrastic poems—lyric representations of visual ...

Morning Edition resident poet Kwame Alexander wants to read your poems that respond to art. He's selected two paintings from which to draw... Poetry Challenge: Paint A Picture With Words For those who ...