Don't miss out! Join us this Sunday afternoon from 2 to 4 pm EST for an online ekphrastic writing session.
Earlier this year we began monthly ekphrastic writing workshops so our worldwide community could gather online to learn more about art and do some writing exercises together. Ekphrastic editor Lorette curates and guides discussion about a variety of artworks, with creative exercises to inspire your writing. Sunday October 17, 2021 2 to 4 pm EST $30 CAD (approx $24 USD) online/Zoom
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Golden Age These majas— in dresses of spun sugar, on balconies, behind fans-- display plump breasts like half-opened gifts, lines and curves thrumming like violins. No infantas with entourages-- still lives designed by god-kings’ whims— nor drab mothers churning butter in the background with wool on spindles waiting, these majas unveil lives that spill beyond objets d’art frames, curating the gazes of old masters across the ages, curating the ever-present I’s who consume. Catherine Fletcher Catherine Fletcher is a writer based in Virginia, USA. Recent work has appeared in The Inflectionist Review, New World Writing, The Hopper, Kissing Dynamite, Hopkins Review, and the concert series Concept Lab. She was a TWP Science and Religion Fellow at Arizona State University from 2016-18. More at http://cafletcher.blogspot.com. New Deadline- November 13, 2021!! After a few requests and much consideration, we have decided to extend the Ekphrastic Sex deadline until November 13. We encourage you to finish your entries and send them in! $10 CAD entry fee gets you a red hot collection of sixty paintings and other artworks from art history on the theme of human sexuality. First prize each in flash fiction and poetry is $150 CAD. Ekphrastic Sex: the Contest We are absolutely thrilled to have Alexis Rhone Fancher as our guest judge for our ekphrastic contest on the theme of sex!!!!! Alexis is an ekphrastic contributor and she is also well known for her sensational writing on themes of human sexuality. Our special Adults Only ekphrastic sex ebook has sixty artworks on various themes and interpretations of human sexuality. The ebook is $10CAD and purchase includes entry fee. Alexis will choose one winner in flash fiction and one in poetry from a selection of finalists. Prizes are $150CAD in each category. RULES 1. Click on button below to purchase your ebook of sixty visual art prompts on the theme of sex. 2. Write from any or all of the artwork prompts. You may submit up to five pieces per entry. 3. You may write flash fiction or poetry, up to 1000 words each. 4. We are looking for inspired, literary works on the complexity of the subject matter. This may of course on occasion include sensitive language and frank, mature discussion. We aren't looking for smut, however, or gratuitous, porny work without nuance. Your poem or story should be a work of art, not a Penthouse letter. 5. Deadline is November 13, 2021. 6. Send your entry to theekphrasticreview@gmail.com. In subject line, put EKPHRASTIC SEX CONTEST. 7. A heads up that complicated formats or spacing is difficult or impossible to reproduce faithfully online. 8. Your work must be inspired by the prompts in the book. It can be a deep dive into the art's history or let the work trigger your imagination in a different direction. 9. The judge's decisions are final. 10. The winners will each receive $150. Winners will be paid by PayPal. 11. Winners will be chosen and announced in December 2021. 12. Please include a third person biography up to 100 words. ** Alexis Rhone Fancher is published in Best American Poetry, Rattle, Hobart, Verse Daily, Plume, Tinderbox, Cleaver, Diode, The American Journal of Poetry, Spillway, Nashville Review, Poetry East, and elsewhere. Her published books include: How I Lost My Virginity to Michael Cohen & other heart stab poems (Sybaritic Press, 2014), State of Grace: The Joshua Elegies (2015), Enter Here (2017), and The Dead Kid Poems (2019), each published by KYSO Flash Press, and Junkie Wife (Moon Tide Press, 2018). EROTIC: New & Selected, New York Quarterly (published in March of 2021), and Stiletto Killer, a full-length collection (in Italian) to be published in 2022 by Edizioni Ensemble, Italia. Also coming up in 2022, New York Quarterly will publish Alexis’ next book, a full-length erotic follow up to Enter Here, entitled BRAZEN, and DUETS, an ekphrastic chap-book written with poet Cynthia Atkins, will be published by Harbor Editions. Her photographs are featured worldwide, including the covers of Witness, Heyday, Blink Ink, Nerve Cowboy and The Pedestal Magazine. A multiple Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee, Alexis is poetry editor of Cultural Daily. www.alexisrhonefancher.com ** Content Warning You must be over 18 to view the contents of this publication. Some people may find the artworks here to be offensive. More than likely, everyone will be offended or disturbed by some of the images. While the works shown are all paintings, drawings or sculptures, some are extremely explicit, and some were created intentionally as pornography before the camera existed. Human sexuality is complex and varied and involves a wide range of practices, bodies, and themes. It is not always healthy or kind, and everyone’s view of what is acceptable or normal differs. The purpose of curating this collection is not to simply showcase beautiful artworks with bare breasts. It is to delve deeply into both the dizzying heights and the darkest recesses of the history of art, culture, and the human psyche, on themes related to human sexuality. It is about making your writing more naked than ever before. Adults Only: Ekphrastic Sex ebook
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Sixty curated artworks on the theme of sex, to inspire your ekphrastic writing practice. Content Warning You must be over 18 to view the contents of this publication. Some people may find the artworks here to be offensive. More than likely, everyone will be offended or disturbed by some of the images. While the works shown are all paintings, drawings or sculptures, some are extremely explicit, and some were created intentionally as pornography before the camera existed. Human sexuality is complex and varied and involves a wide range of practices, bodies, and themes. It is not always healthy or kind, and everyone’s view of what is acceptable or normal differs. The purpose of curating this collection is not to simply showcase beautiful artworks with bare breasts. It is to delve deeply into both the dizzying heights and the darkest recesses of the history of art, culture, and the human psyche, on themes related to human sexuality. It is about making your writing more naked than ever before. Saad Ali
1. Vahana (Sanskrit) = Ride of God/dess. Click here to read an interview with Saad Ali about his book, Owl of Pines. Click here to hear the ekphrastic podcast with Brian A. Salmons, featuring Saad Ali. Saad Ali (b. 1980 C.E. in Okara, Pakistan) has been brought up in the UK and Pakistan. He holds a BSc and an MSc in Management from the University of Leicester, UK. He is an (existential) philosopher, poet, and translator. Ali has authored five collections of poetry. His new collection of poems is titled Owl Of Pines: Sunyata (AuthorHouse, 2021). He is a regular contributor to The Ekphrastic Review. By profession, he is a Lecturer, Management Consultant, and Trainer/Mentor. Some of his influences include: Vyasa, Homer, Ovid, Attar, Rumi, Nietzsche, and Tagore. He is fond of the Persian, Chinese, and Greek cuisines. He likes learning different languages, travelling by train, and exploring cities on foot. To learn more about his work, please visit www.saadalipoetry.com, or his Facebook Author Page at www.facebook.com/owlofpines. Doctor Nikola Never trust a man whose tie is the colour of his shirt; half-priest, half-beau with monstrous lapels. That should show you to his first deception, but then, the olive eyes straight back at you duplicate my feline own and are as passionless. What do you think the red river is behind; no art nouveaux wallpaper, no reflection. What should tell you ‘Never bank with this man’ is the fur coat, a dozen foxes shot to make it and tailored rough as a trapper’s on his thin frame. He’s not what he appears, this one, no turn to his mouth, no attention to his hair and who has his portrait drawn with a black cat pressing down his shoulder, paws together, like a trained hound? Simon Williams Simon Williams (www.simonwilliams.info) has been writing since his teens, when he was mentored at university by Roger McGough and Pete Morgan. His first collection was published in 1981. Since then, he has had eight further collections, his latest being The Magpie Almanack (www.simonwilliams.info) from Vole, published December 2020. Simon was elected The Bard of Exeter in 2013, founded the large-format magazine, The Broadsheet and co-published the PLAY anthology, in memory of his young grandson, in 2018. About a year ago he developed a one-man poetry show, Cosmic Latte, centred on astronomy, animals and sub-atomic particles. One day, he hopes to be able to perform it. On A Love Supreme What else could bridge the gap it spanned -- eternity, that left unplanned, would wait for epic random chance that into darkness light would dance where gases happened to combust congealing and dispersing dust becoming countless solar helms with gravities compelling realms of spinning orbs in circling flights with moons illuminating nights for faces turned away from sun until again they've fully spun... ...what else could such a power be but Love Supreme for all to see as consciousness and conscience made to be its likeness well portrayed? Portly Bard Portly Bard: Old man. Ekphrastic fan. Prefers to craft with sole intent of verse becoming complement... ...and by such homage being lent... ideally also compliment. Thoughts of the Mona Lisa from Inside Vincenzo Perugia’s Closet He didn’t steal a fur coat or the Crown Jewels or an exotic dog, he stole you, the Mona Lisa. You were not stolen by Picasso, or by a fine art restorer, you were stolen by a janitor called Vincenzo Perugia. You were not a tart or the Virgin Mary, you were the half-smiling face of the wife of a silk maker. He didn’t steal you with his charm and he didn’t steal you with his talent, he ripped you from your glass case, stuck you underneath his wool coat and walked with you out of the museum at night. It wasn’t scary and it wasn’t romantic, it was depressing and dull. He was not a pleasant man or an evil man, he was a goalkeeper and pasta pomodoro lover who believed that Italy was your rightful home. He didn’t take you because of love and he didn’t take you because of your beauty, he took you because he believed he was a hero. He wasn’t loving toward you and he wasn’t angry, he was a man who let you know that you weren’t all that pretty to him because you had no eyebrows. He didn’t tell you that you’d be safe with him and he didn’t tell you that he'd destroy you, he said that you were lucky, at your age, to still be wanted. Meg Pokrass Read Meg's story from a Whistler painting. www.ekphrastic.net/ekphrastic-journal/embracing-the-waves-by-meg-pokrass Read Meg's story from a Renoir painting. www.ekphrastic.net/ekphrastic-journal/rose-by-meg-pokrass Meg Pokrass is the author of eight flash fiction collections, an award-winning collection of prose poetry, two novellas-in-flash, an award winning collection of prose poetry, and a 2020 collection of microfiction, "Spinning to Mars" which won the Blue Light Book Award. Her work has appeared in Electric Literature, Washington Square Review, Smokelong Quarterly, Split Lip and McSweeney'shas been anthologized in New Micro (W.W. Norton & Co., 2018), Flash Fiction International (W.W. Norton & Co., 2015) and The Best Small Fictions 2018 and 2019. She serves as Founding Co-Editor of Best Microfiction 2020 and Festival Curator of Flash Fiction Festival U.K. and teaches flash fiction online and in person. Find out more at megpokrass.com. At Eternity’s Gate In Arles Vincent named just such a chair a self-portrait, although it was empty apart from his pipe and a fist of tobacco in a twist of paper. Onions sprouted from a box in the corner of the red flagged floor. Now a man on the same deal and straw seat presses knotted fists into eyes as blue as the bombazine suit, pale and patched. He is a specialist in grief. He knows the signs. Denise Bundred Denise Bundred: "I was a consultant paediatric cardiologist and has an MA in Writing. I’m a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. My pamphlet, Litany of a Cardiologist, was published in 2020. I won the Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine 2016, coming second in 2019. My poems have appeared Hippocrates Prize Winner Anthologies and the NHS Anthology These are the Hands. I have poems in a number of British poetry magazines and online publications including Envoi, Under the Radar, The Poetry Shed, Prole Poetry and Prose, London Grip and Magma." The ekphrastic writing responses are up! Click here or on image above to read the entries selected for this beautiful painting. |
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