A Jumping Off Point with Ekphrastic poetry
I invite you to bring the visual arts and creative writing together. From the Greek meaning to describe, ekphrastic poetry or writing uses a painting or work of art as the jumping off point for entering into that work of art and creating something new in our response. An example is John Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn where the figures are in motion but frozen in time. What men or …