The Ekphrastic Review is an online journal devoted entirely to writing inspired by visual art. Our objective is to promote ekphrastic writing, promote art appreciation, and experience how the two strengthen each other and bring enrichment to every facet of life. We want to inspire more ekphrastic writing and promote the best in ekphrasis far and wide.
The Ekphrastic Review is a unique resource that runs out of pocket on love. Lorette spends 60 to 80 volunteer hours every month on the journal- two to three hours a day, every day including weekends, reading submissions, organizing the challenges, responding, setting up showcases, promoting, and corresponding about permissions for images. Consider a gift, small or large, to support us.
Lorette C. Luzajic, editor and founder
theekphrasticreview@gmail.com
Social Media Team
Facebook
Brian A. Salmons
Instagram
Sarah Kilgallon
Twitter
Rebecca Weigold
Prize Nomination Committee
Laura Cherry
Kari Ann Ebert
Lorette C. Luzajic (editor)
Carole Mertz
Dr. Queen Sarkar
Alarie Tennille
Guest Editors (guest editors who have read and selected for past ekphrastic writing challenges)
Tina Barry
Shirley Glubka
Kyle Laws
Joan Leotta
Janette Schafer
Alarie Tennille
Jordan Trethewey
Bill Waters
Editor's Bio:
Lorette C. Luzajic is a writer and artist in Toronto, Canada. She studied journalism at Ryerson University in Toronto, but preferred creating and exhibiting mixed media art to the newsroom. Deeply passionate about art history and poetry, these have been ongoing areas of independent study for decades. Literature and text have also been primary themes of her collage paintings, and art and other human creativities has always been central to her writing. Lorette's poetry and prose have appeared in over 200 publications, and has been nominated for Best of the Net and twice for the Pushcart Prize. Her books include Truck, and other thoughts on art; The Astronaut's Wife; Aspartame; The Lords of George Street; Kilodney Does Shakespeare; Fascinating Writers; Fascinating Artists, and more. Her most recent book is a collection of ekphrastic prose poems called Pretty Time Machine. Her visual artwork is regularly shown in Toronto and nearby, and has also been exhibited in Mexico, Tunisia, Chicago, Los Angeles, Edinburgh, Ireland, Australia, and as a 20 ft. billboard in New Orleans. Visit Lorette at www.mixedupmedia.ca.
Social Media Team Bios:
Sarah Kilgallon is a Boston-based writer and photographer. Her work has appeared in The Ekphrastic Review, The Bark Magazine, and a flash fiction anthology published by Harvard Book Store. When not behind a camera or in front of her laptop, she's dog-centric working and training dogs in off-leash environments. You can view her work on Instagram @walkabout_dogs and @sarah_kilgallon_photography
Brian A. Salmons is a writer who lives in Orlando, Florida with his wife and their three children. He studied anthropology and community development at university, works full time for a full-service, national law firm, and writes poetry when he can. He's been published in several journals since 2017 when he got serious about writing and started submitting for publication. Brian is an avid reader of classic lit, sci-fi, politics, philosophy, history and the social sciences and enjoys attempting to learn other languages, the latest ongoing attempt being Indonesian. In the time that's left, he hosts a poetry "podcast" on Facebook called Brian and the Night, wherein he simply sits on his back porch and reads some of his favorite poems accompanied by the sounds of night. Visit Brian at https://briansalmonspoetry.wixsite.com/poetry and https://www.facebook.com/BrianAndTheNight/
Rebecca Weigold is a poet and writer who worked in editorial roles at International Thomson Publishing/Southwestern Educational Publishing and F&W Publications. She founded and published the poetry journal, The Cincinnati Poets' Collective, featuring poets from around the globe, annually for about a decade.
Prize Nomination Committee Bios:
Laura Cherry: Laura's latest chapbook, Two White Beds, is available from Minerva Rising Press, and her first full-length collection of poetry, Haunts, is available from Cooper Dillon Books. Laura's chapbook, What We Planted, was awarded the 2002 Philbrick Poetry Award by the Providence Athenaeum. She is co-editor of the anthology Poem, Revised (Marion Street Press). Her work has been published in numerous journals, including Tuesday: An Art Project, The Vocabula Review, H_NGM_N, Newport Review, Los Angeles Review, and Naugatuck River Review. It has also appeared in the anthologies Present Tense (Calyx Press), Vocabula Bound (Vocabula Books), and Letters from the World (Red Hen Press). Laura was a nominating reader for (and previous recipient of) the Philbrick Poetry Prize and also at Tuesday: an Art Project.
Kari Ann Ebert: Winner of the 2018 Gigantic Sequins Poetry Contest, Kari Ann Ebert’s poetry has appeared in Mojave River Review, Philadelphia Stories, The Broadkill Review, Gargoyle, and Gravel as well as several anthologies. In 2016, she was selected to attend the Delaware Division of the Arts Seashore Writers Retreat and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Most recently, she was named winner of the Crossroads Ekphrastic Writing Contest (a collaboration between Salisbury Wicomico Art Galleries and Eastern Shore Writers Association). Kari is working on her first poetry collection, Alphabet of Mo(u)rning. She lives in Dover, Delaware and has two children who are also writers.
Carole Mertz, poet and essayist, is a graduate of Oberlin College. She maintains a lifelong interest in classical painting and other works of the 19th and 20th centuries and is a sibling to two professional visual artists. After music performance, writing is her chief occupation, with recent works at Eclectica, Muddy River Poetry Review, The Society of Classical Poets, WestWard Quarterly, and elsewhere. Her recent reviews of poetry collections are at Mom Egg Review, Eclectica, Into the Void, Arc Poetry, CutBank, Dreamers Creative Writing, South 85 Journal, and World Literature Today. She served as reader at MER in the selection of Pushcart nominees process and is Book Review Editor at Dreamers Creative Writing.Carole’s first poetry chapbook Toward a Peeping Sunrise will be published in October.
Dr. Queen Sarkar is a multilingual poet, an academician, and a translator based in Ranchi, India. Sarkar has been appointed as the “Ambassador of Good Will Seeds of Youth XXI Century, India – United Nations of Letters –Uniletras.” She is also the Ambassador of Peace for Switzerland/ France. Her review articles, poems, and research papers have been published in reputed international journals and anthologies. Sarkar has done her Ph.D. in Contemporary Indian English Poetry from IIT Kharagpur. Her research areas includes – poetry, translation, cross-cultural communication, cultural studies, adaptation and appropriation. Sarkar’s poems have been translated in Spanish, Arabic, and Gujarati. She is also the bonafide member of World Nations Writer’s Union.
Alarie Tennille was born and raised in Portsmouth, Virginia, with a genius older brother destined for NASA, a ghost, and a yard full of cats. She graduated from the University of Virginia in the first class admitting women. Alarie was a career writer and editor, but art was her first love. In 2016, she discovered The Ekphrastic Review when a friend’s poem appeared there. While Alarie believes a poem should be able to stand on its own, it’s much more exciting to see it paired with the inspiration. Overnight, The Ekphrastic Review became her journal home. Both her poetry collections are listed on the review’s Book Shelf, and Alarie became one of the first guest challenge editors in 2019. Now retired, Alarie serves on the Emeritus Board of The Writers Place in Kansas City, Missouri. Please visit her at alariepoet.com.
The Ekphrastic Review is a unique resource that runs out of pocket on love. Lorette spends 60 to 80 volunteer hours every month on the journal- two to three hours a day, every day including weekends, reading submissions, organizing the challenges, responding, setting up showcases, promoting, and corresponding about permissions for images. Consider a gift, small or large, to support us.
Lorette C. Luzajic, editor and founder
theekphrasticreview@gmail.com
Social Media Team
Brian A. Salmons
Sarah Kilgallon
Rebecca Weigold
Prize Nomination Committee
Laura Cherry
Kari Ann Ebert
Lorette C. Luzajic (editor)
Carole Mertz
Dr. Queen Sarkar
Alarie Tennille
Guest Editors (guest editors who have read and selected for past ekphrastic writing challenges)
Tina Barry
Shirley Glubka
Kyle Laws
Joan Leotta
Janette Schafer
Alarie Tennille
Jordan Trethewey
Bill Waters
Editor's Bio:
Lorette C. Luzajic is a writer and artist in Toronto, Canada. She studied journalism at Ryerson University in Toronto, but preferred creating and exhibiting mixed media art to the newsroom. Deeply passionate about art history and poetry, these have been ongoing areas of independent study for decades. Literature and text have also been primary themes of her collage paintings, and art and other human creativities has always been central to her writing. Lorette's poetry and prose have appeared in over 200 publications, and has been nominated for Best of the Net and twice for the Pushcart Prize. Her books include Truck, and other thoughts on art; The Astronaut's Wife; Aspartame; The Lords of George Street; Kilodney Does Shakespeare; Fascinating Writers; Fascinating Artists, and more. Her most recent book is a collection of ekphrastic prose poems called Pretty Time Machine. Her visual artwork is regularly shown in Toronto and nearby, and has also been exhibited in Mexico, Tunisia, Chicago, Los Angeles, Edinburgh, Ireland, Australia, and as a 20 ft. billboard in New Orleans. Visit Lorette at www.mixedupmedia.ca.
Social Media Team Bios:
Sarah Kilgallon is a Boston-based writer and photographer. Her work has appeared in The Ekphrastic Review, The Bark Magazine, and a flash fiction anthology published by Harvard Book Store. When not behind a camera or in front of her laptop, she's dog-centric working and training dogs in off-leash environments. You can view her work on Instagram @walkabout_dogs and @sarah_kilgallon_photography
Brian A. Salmons is a writer who lives in Orlando, Florida with his wife and their three children. He studied anthropology and community development at university, works full time for a full-service, national law firm, and writes poetry when he can. He's been published in several journals since 2017 when he got serious about writing and started submitting for publication. Brian is an avid reader of classic lit, sci-fi, politics, philosophy, history and the social sciences and enjoys attempting to learn other languages, the latest ongoing attempt being Indonesian. In the time that's left, he hosts a poetry "podcast" on Facebook called Brian and the Night, wherein he simply sits on his back porch and reads some of his favorite poems accompanied by the sounds of night. Visit Brian at https://briansalmonspoetry.wixsite.com/poetry and https://www.facebook.com/BrianAndTheNight/
Rebecca Weigold is a poet and writer who worked in editorial roles at International Thomson Publishing/Southwestern Educational Publishing and F&W Publications. She founded and published the poetry journal, The Cincinnati Poets' Collective, featuring poets from around the globe, annually for about a decade.
Prize Nomination Committee Bios:
Laura Cherry: Laura's latest chapbook, Two White Beds, is available from Minerva Rising Press, and her first full-length collection of poetry, Haunts, is available from Cooper Dillon Books. Laura's chapbook, What We Planted, was awarded the 2002 Philbrick Poetry Award by the Providence Athenaeum. She is co-editor of the anthology Poem, Revised (Marion Street Press). Her work has been published in numerous journals, including Tuesday: An Art Project, The Vocabula Review, H_NGM_N, Newport Review, Los Angeles Review, and Naugatuck River Review. It has also appeared in the anthologies Present Tense (Calyx Press), Vocabula Bound (Vocabula Books), and Letters from the World (Red Hen Press). Laura was a nominating reader for (and previous recipient of) the Philbrick Poetry Prize and also at Tuesday: an Art Project.
Kari Ann Ebert: Winner of the 2018 Gigantic Sequins Poetry Contest, Kari Ann Ebert’s poetry has appeared in Mojave River Review, Philadelphia Stories, The Broadkill Review, Gargoyle, and Gravel as well as several anthologies. In 2016, she was selected to attend the Delaware Division of the Arts Seashore Writers Retreat and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Most recently, she was named winner of the Crossroads Ekphrastic Writing Contest (a collaboration between Salisbury Wicomico Art Galleries and Eastern Shore Writers Association). Kari is working on her first poetry collection, Alphabet of Mo(u)rning. She lives in Dover, Delaware and has two children who are also writers.
Carole Mertz, poet and essayist, is a graduate of Oberlin College. She maintains a lifelong interest in classical painting and other works of the 19th and 20th centuries and is a sibling to two professional visual artists. After music performance, writing is her chief occupation, with recent works at Eclectica, Muddy River Poetry Review, The Society of Classical Poets, WestWard Quarterly, and elsewhere. Her recent reviews of poetry collections are at Mom Egg Review, Eclectica, Into the Void, Arc Poetry, CutBank, Dreamers Creative Writing, South 85 Journal, and World Literature Today. She served as reader at MER in the selection of Pushcart nominees process and is Book Review Editor at Dreamers Creative Writing.Carole’s first poetry chapbook Toward a Peeping Sunrise will be published in October.
Dr. Queen Sarkar is a multilingual poet, an academician, and a translator based in Ranchi, India. Sarkar has been appointed as the “Ambassador of Good Will Seeds of Youth XXI Century, India – United Nations of Letters –Uniletras.” She is also the Ambassador of Peace for Switzerland/ France. Her review articles, poems, and research papers have been published in reputed international journals and anthologies. Sarkar has done her Ph.D. in Contemporary Indian English Poetry from IIT Kharagpur. Her research areas includes – poetry, translation, cross-cultural communication, cultural studies, adaptation and appropriation. Sarkar’s poems have been translated in Spanish, Arabic, and Gujarati. She is also the bonafide member of World Nations Writer’s Union.
Alarie Tennille was born and raised in Portsmouth, Virginia, with a genius older brother destined for NASA, a ghost, and a yard full of cats. She graduated from the University of Virginia in the first class admitting women. Alarie was a career writer and editor, but art was her first love. In 2016, she discovered The Ekphrastic Review when a friend’s poem appeared there. While Alarie believes a poem should be able to stand on its own, it’s much more exciting to see it paired with the inspiration. Overnight, The Ekphrastic Review became her journal home. Both her poetry collections are listed on the review’s Book Shelf, and Alarie became one of the first guest challenge editors in 2019. Now retired, Alarie serves on the Emeritus Board of The Writers Place in Kansas City, Missouri. Please visit her at alariepoet.com.