The Ekphrastic Review
  • Ekphrastic Journal
  • About
  • Writers
  • Give
    • Merch
  • Book Shelf
    • Ekphrastic Book Shelf
    • Contributors' Book Shelf
  • Ebooks
  • Submit
  • Prizes
  • Ekphrastic Writing Challenges
  • Contact
  • TERcets Podcast

Stare, by Andrena Zawinski

4/5/2019

0 Comments

 
Picture
Street Scene, Vicksburg, Mississppi, photograph by Walker Evans (USA) 1936. (CC 4.0)


Stare

"Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. 
You are not here long."  Walker Evans
​
The small town 
windswept streets, 
their flophouses 
and weatherworn 
sharecropper porches 

hold the stare 
and want 
and will 
of those 
who people them. 

The speech 
of image, 
already past tense  
in the snap of shutter,
still endures 

like deep south rural
main streets impoverished
as dust bowl fields,
yet resilient
as life itself.

Andrena Zawinski

This poem was written in response to a whole exhibition of Walker Evans' work, not a single photograph. 
Walker Evans Cantor Arts exhibit at Stanford University, 2012

Andrena Zawinski has authored nine poetry collections of which three are full books, the most recent being Landings from Kelsay Books; a PEN Josephine Miles Award winner, Something About from Blue Light Press; and a Kenneth Patchen Prize, Traveling in Reflected Light from Pig Iron Press. Her poetry has received accolades for lyricism, form, spirituality, and social concern. She founded and runs the San Francisco Bay Area Women’s Poetry Salon and is Features Editor at PoetryMagazine.com

0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    The Ekphrastic Review
    Picture

    ​​Find a writer, artist, or poem, etc. by searching here:
    PLEASE SUPPORT US
    Join us on FB and Twitter!
    Picture



    ​
    ​Archives
    ​

    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015

    Lorette C. Luzajic theekphrasticreview@gmail.com 

  • Ekphrastic Journal
  • About
  • Writers
  • Give
    • Merch
  • Book Shelf
    • Ekphrastic Book Shelf
    • Contributors' Book Shelf
  • Ebooks
  • Submit
  • Prizes
  • Ekphrastic Writing Challenges
  • Contact
  • TERcets Podcast