Paul Hetherington Au Bain: https://www.moma.org/collection/works/63720 Femme nue a la jambe pliee: https://www.moma.org/collection/works/63859 Deux buveurs catalans: www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.39091.html Taureau ailé contemple par quatre enfants: https://catalogue.swanngalleries.com/Lots/auction-lot/PABLO-PICASSO-Taureau-ailé-contemplé-par-Quatre-Enfants?saleno=2522&lotNo=327&refNo=764734 Sculpteur, modele accroupi et tete sculptee: http://www.artnet.com/artists/pablo-picasso/sculpteur-modèle-accroupi-et-tête-sculptée-from-ZwFR9uKXd_bw3O1JxGWjDg2 Paul Hetherington is a distinguished Australian poet. He has published 16 full-length collections of poetry and prose poetry, including Her One Hundred and Seven Words (MadHat, 2021), the co-authored epistolary prose poetry sequence, Fugitive Letters (with Cassandra Atherton, Recent Work Press, 2020), and Typewriter and Manuscript (Life Before Man, 2020), along with a verse novel and 12 poetry chapbooks. He has won or been nominated for more than 30 national and international awards and competitions. With Cassandra Atherton, he is co-author of Prose Poetry: An Introduction (Princeton University Press, 2020) and co-editor of Anthology of Australian Prose Poetry (Melbourne University Press, 2020).
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Whistler’s Mother’s Son The painting known as Whistler’s Mother gave birth to a son, a painting of the painter James Abbott McNeill Whistler. The painting of Whistler, in turn, painted a painting of its mother, the painting of Whistler’s mother. This painting, the painting of the painting of Whistler’s mother, painted by the painting of Whistler the painter, gave birth, but this time to a daughter, a flesh and blood daughter who turned out to be the real-life Whistler’s mother. This daughter, Whistler’s mother, gave birth to a son named James Abbott McNeill Whistler, who immortalized her in a painting known as Arrangement in Gray and Black Number 1. Peter Cherches This story was first published in Whistler's Mother's Son, the author's short story collection, Pelekinesis, 2020. Called “one of the innovators of the short short story” by Publishers Weekly, Peter Cherches’ most recent book is Tracks: Memoirs from a Life with Music (Bamboo Dart Press). His writing has appeared in scores of magazines, anthologies and websites, including Harper’s, Transatlantic Review, Flash, Bomb, Semiotext(e), and Fiction International, as well as Billy Collins’ Poetry 180 website and anthology. He has published three volumes of short prose fiction with Pelekinesis since 2013: Lift Your Right Arm, Autobiography Without Words, and Whistler’s Mother’s Son. I. Man on Verandah I sit alone, except for one standoffish piebald cat. But none should pity me. I like this view: the bay untroubled and pale blue, a clear sky kissed by morning sun, and fantasies my brain has spun. In one I’m young again; I’ve won a sailboat race. And though it’s true I sit alone, I see my Ruthie, almost done with one more crossword. She would stun me with the news. I think she knew her odds were slim; I had no clue. Although I thought we’d just begun, I sit alone. II. Dog and Priest We take the painter’s word for it: a priest, the title says. It’s plausible: hands clean, clothes dark and neatly pressed—the slacks still creased— but no clerical collar can be seen, only the dog’s. The black Lab sits up straight, alert beside the lounging man of God, who may be idling here to contemplate Creation in this lake. But it seems odd that he should sprawl here in these formal clothes— and though it’s likely he surveys the vast blue water, that’s just something we suppose; perhaps instead he keeps his eyes downcast. The dog’s head, with its bright eye, mutely mocks the vagueness of the man whose face it blocks. III. Pacific The man’s broad back is what seduces me. He stands between the ocean—vast and pale— and that dark gun I wish I didn’t see, its foreground prominence undoubtedly a sign of trouble. Nobody could fail to notice it, but what seduces me is that broad back, the muscularity and cool slouch of a strong and silent male in trouble. And I wish I didn’t see the man’s past in the gun’s proximity, the evidence of some grim film-noir tale he’s turned his back on. What seduces me is how his posture hints that he can’t flee; a breaker falls, but he’s known larger-scale collapse, his future difficult to see. I almost hear the soundtrack—the ennui of smoky jazz, a riff on lives gone stale. But still, the man’s broad back seduces me; then there’s the gun I wish I didn’t see. Jean L. Kreiling Jean L. Kreiling is the prize-winning author of two poetry collections, Arts & Letters & Love (2018) and The Truth in Dissonance (2014); her third book will appear in early 2022. She is Associate Poetry Editor of Able Muse: A Review of Poetry, Prose & Art, and a Professor Emeritus of Music at Bridgewater State University. The new challenge prompt is up! Click on image above for more information and details on how to participate.
You may recall last week's responses to Sonya Gonzalez's artwork, Angel Production. One of the published responses was by Carol Lee Saffioto-Hughes. Carol and Sonya got together virtually and turned Carol's poem into a greeting card with the angel painting on the front. We love to hear about creative collaborations and members of our community working on projects together!
You can view more of Sonya's cards here. The Liturgy of the Flesh In November, in Poland, when the drivers honk like madmen, you often fantasize about the end of the world. Daydreaming about love and hate, not about forgiveness, but about the punishment, you imagine how fire shall consume it all, and how all shall perish and wither away. The sinful to pay for their disobedience, the faithful to be rewarded for restraint. All to be resurrected upon the end, led by that sound of the trumpeter. All the masses for the people long lost, paid for with money wrapped in envelopes, with faith that what is invested here will bring profits there, and that the body is not lost, but will be made anew for those who knew how to use it well. Luca Signorelli painted the scene, showing how they hoist each other up, proud of being flesh again, and Jorie Graham gave it voice, describing the master, who dissects and penetrates. But my mind cannot simply mend itself, buried in the open flesh, like a snail. Michał Choiński Michał Choiński (he/his/him) teaches American literature at the Jagiellonian University (Kraków, Poland). He has written two academic books - his latest monograph, Southern Hyperboles came out with LSU Press in 2020. Choiński's debut pamphlet Gifts Without Wrapping was published by Hedgehog Press in 2019. His poems and translations of poetry were published in journals in Poland, in the UK and in Canada. In 2022, he'll be at Yale University, as a Fulbright Fellow, writing his next book. Bring The Ekphrastic Review to your local by Zoom!
By now you have heard about our online writing workshops. And we hope you'll join us for a few the great workshops in the lineup- we have Love Stories coming up, Ekphrastic Flash Fiction, Wine and Art Write Night, and many more. But why not bring The Ekphrastic Review to you? Lorette will join you as a guest speaker on the joys of ekphrastic writing, tailoring a workshop or course to your needs. She has done online appearances, workshops, and full courses with various university creative writing classes, the Bath Flash Fiction Festival, Hong Fook Mental Health Association, and more. Contemplating visual art and writing about it is fun, therapeutic, creative, and expansive. It is for professional writers and English lit students, but also for teens, senior centres, churches, museums, hospitals, community centres, cultural centres, and more. Lorette will create a program with your audience in mind, curating art and conversation around the needs of your participants. For example, if she is working with a particular art gallery, selections will be from that collection. Workshops can be single session or in series. Reasonable rates/flexible to your budget. Contact Lorette at theekphrasticreview@gmail.com. Put GUEST WORKSHOP in subject line! We would love to connect with and inspire your community! Not sure where to bring the Review? museums art centres art galleries art school/art programs classrooms (college, university, high school) libraries book clubs senior centres church groups recovery groups community centres cultural centres institutions (mental health, hospitals, addiction recovery, etc) wine club young writers groups associations etc. ** Lorette C. Luzajic is an award-winning, internationally collected visual artist in Toronto, Canada. She has a degree in journalism but always gravitated to creative writing. She loves writing from or about art, and her ekphrastic poems, essays, and stories have been widely published, as well as winning first place in a contest, being nominated for Best Microfiction, Best Small Fictions, and four times each for Best of Net and the Pushcart Prize. In 2015 she started The Ekphrastic Review, a site that has grown into the world's flagship ekphrastic journal, and an amazing community of writers worldwide. For many years, through the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health hospital, Lorette has been teaching art in person and online to communities with lived experience of mental illness. She also hosts regular workshops online through the journal, and has done ekphrastic courses, workshops or presentations at the University of Singapore, Trinity Western University, Hong Fook Mental Health Association in Toronto, Bath Flash Fiction Festival, and more. She also teaches ekphrastic flash fiction intensives with Meg Pokrass, and much more. Wind Protector Cousins these spirits, old Wendigo the ash gray creature of native terror and childhood fear who hunts in nighttimes darkest haunts, and Wind Protector caretaker of moonlight running as a spirit faster than mere movement, legend of peace in the making loving and fatherly born from midwives hewn hands and the forests hand me downs, swift, hushed, only ears feel his great mystery as hidden animals with green nocturnal vision, housed within knotted secret underbrush, faintly hear his circling rush of breath, beyond day, healing is on dark night paths, quiet redemption among algae and decay, his wide windswept arms reach for what he can't stop to embrace, rooted, anchored in place. Daniel Brown Daniel Brown is a retired Special Education teacher. His poems include a variety of styles and subjects from Haiku to poems about music, art and social issues. Daniel’s work has been published in Chronogram, Jerry Jazz Musician And Mightier: Poets For Social Justice among others. He reads his poetry from time to time on his YouTube channel “Poetry From Shooks Pond” and is working on his first collection Family Portraits in Verse. He lives in Red Hook, New York. It Was All Too Much Hidden behind a wash of red, she’s gone. Bare outlines of her body clipped in angry strokes. She lies back, collapsed. The head a contusion, a dark scratching, a rage turned numb and covered. She doesn’t want to see her face for fear the tears will wash the paint away. ** You Kept It Coming “I will not be quiet, I will not turn myself inside out to bury suffering”, she says. The body laid out on the bed as if she wants to care for it but cannot. The head exhausted, destroyed. ** Because You Kept Touching Me I’m bruised. I paint the parts you touched, over and over with black. To get this on the wall I threw the anger at it, but then the sorrow overwhelmed me, set the painting free. John White John White is a writer and BAFTA Award Winning TV & cross-media Director/Producer. He has been writing poetry for many years and was first published in Michael Horovitz’s seminal avant-garde review New Departures. He graduated in 2021 from the London Poetry School/Newcastle University UK Writing Poetry MA. Recently he has had poems in the New European newspaper and Alchemy Spoon, and he has a performance poem on New Boots and Pantisocracies at: https://newbootsandpantisocracies.wordpress.com/2020/06/21/postcards-from-malthusia-video-interlude-1-john-white/ Twitter: @johnwhiteprods It’s Always Something The aspen doing something in the wind – Robert Hass In the dream I wander deep halls in the Museum of Lost Meaning. The saints were busy conferring about something in the della Francesca. A resurrection of cranes stood aloof and rigid, a black-eyed junco half-way off the frame. (Even the magpie seems to have been struck dumb.) While an approximation of angels held the silent O of their lips and looked toward heaven – the notion of God doing something to their souls. Is there a word for all the unsayable confines of the world? Something beyond conformity, just this side of dismissal? As the undercurrent of years does something to your life. All those hours spent comparing one beauty to another, whether on the canvas or beyond the gallery doors – the moon doing something in the sky. Tina Schumann Tina Schumann is a Pushcart nominated poet and the author of three poetry collections, Praising the Paradox (Red Hen Press, 2019) which was a finalist in the National Poetry Series, Four Way Books Intro Prize and the Julie Suk Award; Requiem. A Patrimony of Fugues (Diode Editions, 2017) which won the Diode Editions Chapbook Competition and As If (Parlor City Press, 2010) which was awarded the Stephen Dunn Poetry Prize. She is editor of the IPPY-award winning anthology Two Countries. U.S. Daughters and Sons of Immigrant Parents (Red Hen, 2017). Schumann’s work received the 2009 American Poet Prize from The American Poetry Journal, finalist status in the Terrain.org annual poetry contest, as well as honourable mentions in The Atlantic, Crab Creek Review and The Allen Ginsberg Award. She is the poetry editor for Wandering Aengus Press and her poems have appeared widely since 1999, including The American Journal of Poetry, Ascent, Cimarron Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Nimrod, Parabola, Palabra, Poetry Daily, Poemeleon, Rattle, Verse Daily, and read on NPR’s The Writer’s Almanac. www.tinaschumann.com |
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