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robmclennan.bsky.social
new from above/ground press: IHRE KINDER: ekphrastic poems, by Jessica Smith / @thedaybooks.bsky.social ;
(above/ground press item #1500)
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new from above/ground press: IHRE KINDER: ekphrastic poems, by Jessica Smith
IHRE KINDER: ekphrastic poems Jessica Smith $6 published in Ottawa by above/ground press November 2026 above/ground press item #1500 a/g sub...
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November 9, 2026 at 4:19 PM
johnchmura.bsky.social
#Ekphrastic #Monoku #Oak

dream big little oak
November 8, 2026 at 8:55 PM
potheadfuckbrain.bsky.social
I’m gonna do what Shipley did with Begotten except with Freddy Got Fingered, then write an ekphrastic novel called Proud Proud Proud Proud Proud
November 7, 2026 at 7:29 PM
manykinsmen.bsky.social
my poem i found you in the gallery was commended in the poetry kit ekphrastic poetry competition!
November 4, 2026 at 9:17 PM
dayofthedodo.bsky.social
#poetsofdoom #ekphrastic

The Disposition of the Linen

It demands form—
movement of light and shadow
as day paces from east to west.

I cannot take shape.
Beauty makes me cry.
Cleverness makes me bleed.

I am without form, and void,
watery deep above, below.
I am not a poem clothed with the sun.
phylogeneticsteve.bsky.social Steve Silas Hendrickson (Hiatus) @phylogeneticsteve.bsky.social · 1d
It is my turn to host #PoetsOfDOom this week, so I shall deliver:

Your instructions are shown below, I can't wait to see your pieces.

Tag my fellow hosts as well!

@sonnetsmith.bsky.social
@jenthorne.bsky.social
@daveashleypoet.bsky.social

#poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #writesky #prompt
Hello, my fellow poetic doomers! It’s me again. It has been a while so this is me dipping my toes again into hosting. Bear with me as I am still trying to get back into the swing of things. For this week, all I ask is that you select any instrumental piece, whether it is a movie/video game/TV soundtrack, or a classical music piece, and create a poem out of it. It can be about anything but it has to be related to the music. I will not be picky with form, but I will appreciate a brief explanation for your piece and the music that was used....since I can be quite illiterate with pop culture references. Happy writing, have fun! -Steve Silas Hendrickson
November 8, 2026 at 12:59 PM
scottbot.net
ekphrastic poets, maybe
November 8, 2026 at 4:57 AM
dayofthedodo.bsky.social
#ekphrastic #monostich

~ metalwork ~

Let spite call me a liar but the body remembers what is true.
📷 vagina dentata: close-up of a Venetian chastity belt with teeth …Source: wikipedia accessed 7 November 2026
November 7, 2026 at 9:26 AM
thedaybooks.bsky.social
Holy crap I came home to a box of copies of my new chapbook of ekphrastic poems (it’s not the official release date yet so sneak peek) AND a magazine acceptance of a PANTOUM. A pantoum! Me! What!

Thank you @robmclennan.bsky.social for being a reason to crawl out of the bed in the morning.
The author, who is a blonde woman with clear glasses, with her chapbook, which is titled Ihre Kinder and is a series of ekphrastic poems. New chapbook, Ihre Kinder, on vintage bright chartreuse German typewriter A poem from Ihre Kinder about a particular Gee’s Bend quilt. The automated alt text thinks the poem goes like this: a log cabin made of cotton mother to daughter displaced brought enslaved to work cotton stolen in in isolation rural Alabama in community they created wild bright refusals a forty-one year old widow with ten children women pieced her husband's clothes subdued gray white denim rust crazy centerless scarcity and faded worked cotton Pettway Pettway spiraling down to fit traditional rectangular strips the need express to housetop cabin soil Blocks and Strips Works-Clothes Quilt (1942) Missouri Pettway However, the poem goes a lot of possible ways
November 6, 2026 at 1:50 AM
tomuseandamuse.bsky.social
#poetrycommunity #artistforhire #personalisedgift #custompoem #customgift #specialoccassion #ekphrastic
#writerforhire #giftideas
tomuseandamuse.bsky.social Niharika @tomuseandamuse.bsky.social · 6d
Click the link to commission a personalised poem👇

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A poster titled "custom poem for loved one" describing in brief about commissioning a personalised poem. check the link to know more
November 3, 2026 at 4:56 PM
katelaity.eurosky.social
Arty art time kalaity.com/2026/11/09/p...
Poetic License: Revolution Reborn
My latest multimedia piece Revolution Reborn: Under November frost, revolution cracked open, hope soared again. Ekphrastic assemblage. Mixed media: 2026. Poetic License 2026: November 13, 2026 – Ja…
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November 9, 2026 at 3:57 PM
iamagnat.bsky.social
Ekphrastic (inspired to write by pictures) session described as "A quiet writing hour with art and culture" . Online, free, 13th November 10:00 GMT from @europeana.bsky.social
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November 5, 2026 at 11:00 AM
folkartmuseum.bsky.social
NMDCA’s Ekphrastic Poetry Contest is open to New Mexicans ages 9 to 99 through Feb. 26, 2027. Write a poem inspired by one of 12 artworks, including Seth Kane Kwei’s Coffin Airplane (1975), on view in The Art Underground at MOIFA. http://www.nmculture.dca.nm.gov/publications/poetry-contest #MOIFA
2027 Ekphrastic Poetry Contest poster with Pan American folk-art toy airplane and entry deadline information
November 3, 2026 at 1:02 AM
sonnetsmith.bsky.social
Using the exploding form prompt to write an Ekphrastic about a picasso is pure genius!
What better way to explore crossing boundaries in art!
November 6, 2026 at 9:39 AM
meanerharker.bsky.social
Little ekphrastic piece up in @silvercanyonreview.bsky.social today. Hope you all enjoy. Thanks to Silver Canyon for sharing my words x
silvercanyonreview.bsky.social Silver Canyon Review @silvercanyonreview.bsky.social · 8d
Read @meanerharker.bsky.social ekphrastic piece, "Boca Kid Gets A Puck And Ice" up on the homepage today.
November 1, 2026 at 1:36 PM
silvercanyonreview.bsky.social
Read @meanerharker.bsky.social ekphrastic piece, "Boca Kid Gets A Puck And Ice" up on the homepage today.
November 1, 2026 at 1:32 PM
drewsof.bsky.social
17. AN ATTEMPTED BIOGRAPHY OF THE WORKS OF BARBARA LIVESEY by Stephen George Wallis. A perfect introductory text to @deadinkbooks.bsky.social's Eden Book Society project. Let the lacunae wash over you and open your mind to the mystery! Long live ekphrastic literature! Also: British giants?
November 3, 2026 at 6:24 PM
afterpoetry.com
No more fanfare, no more reminders. Today's the last day to send your #ekphrastic or 'after' poem to @markantonyowen.com and @victoriaspires.bsky.social at @afterpoetry.com. Get over to afterpoetry.com/submit before 23:59 (GMT) tonight!!

Good luck! 🍀
Promotional poster for the online poetry journal After... announcing that poets have just hours left to submit their 'after' or ekphrastic poems.
October 31, 2026 at 7:00 AM
gaussianwords.bsky.social
#PoetsOfDoom - revised a write from a 2025 NaPoWriMo prompt. A partial stanza of the original ode written by Friedrich Schiller marks the end of each of my stanzas. (Ekphrastic music)

@phylogeneticsteve.bsky.social
@sonnetsmith.bsky.social
@jenthorne.bsky.social
@daveashleypoet.bsky.social
Ode To Joy My fat fingers on the family upright Janice came by for tea and for teaching. Her gnarled fingers no longer played. Plunking out Beethoven Joy is drunk by every being. Bell choir. Peals out, ringing white-gloved waiting to rise and swing a flick, a strike too soon. I anticipate such from kind nature's flowing breasts. Concerts Spring and Fall viola then cello the sonorous ones. White shirts pressed some disconnect. Between ear and brain and finger pad every evil, every good thing. Fourth movement minor hum with the bunnies while I walk campus trials. Slow crescendo of books and verse for her rosy footprint quests. Joint custody. Tuned to WBJC classical laditudinous vowels sing me past nausea and dust and transmission oils the long radio rides between houses. Fund drives gave she us both vines and kisses. Anteroom piped curtains at the funeral home between us and them a calming tune with just enough gust to honor the departed in the face of death a friend.
November 8, 2026 at 9:07 AM
tracyroyce.bsky.social
Grateful to have new ekphrastic microfiction at The Ilanot Review, co-authored with the wonderful @lorettec.bsky.social
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Eye in the Sky - Ilanot Review
Tracy Royce and Lorette C. Luzajic after Kite Eye, by Sylvia Fein (USA) 2006 Flora walked out into the breezy afternoon, her wrist still stinging. The bruises would bloom soon, his little reminder to ...
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November 1, 2026 at 10:39 PM
sagetaylorkingsley.bsky.social
EKPHRASTIC SPOOKY POEM!
The clouds bespoke how thin the veil …
‘Ware each sound that gives you fright
If the walls could speak, oh, what a tale!
Yet darkness recedes before the light.
©️ Sage Taylor Kingsley 2026
Photo by @Steve Gibbs
Sage Taylor Kingsley (@sagepoetess)
USE THIS PHOTO AS A PROMPT FOR AN EKPHRASTIC SPOOKY POEM! Here’s mine: The clouds bespoke how thin the veil … ‘Ware each sound that gives you fright If the walls could speak, oh, what a tale! Yet ...
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October 31, 2026 at 7:21 PM
worthingflash.bsky.social
worthingflash.blogspot.com/2026/10/mask... Norbert Kovacs lives and writes in Hartford, Connecticut. He has published fiction recently in Blink-Ink, Worthing Flash, and The Ekphrastic Review. His website: www.norbertkovacs.net.
Mask of His Own
Mask of His Own None of the masks on the wall of the costume shop would give anybody a hint of who was underneath, the man thought. The...
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November 2, 2026 at 8:57 AM
spectralthrum.eurosky.social
I’m looking very forward to my own copy!

Also, “ekphrastic”, which I just came across from your post above, is such a bloody good word.
October 31, 2026 at 8:37 AM
afterpoetry.com
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Submit to After... | Poems inspired by other art
Send a new, unpublished 'after' or ekphrastic poem to After... throughout October 2027.
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November 1, 2026 at 10:30 AM
stewedpearsdotcom.bsky.social
"She greets you, her aprons, their pregnant pouches
stuffed with potatoes and tomatoes
picked while on her knees despite back pain.

Then, her quarter-acre land, to be strolled, admired.
while she bestows nectarines, gifts peas,
completes a tour of her garden of Versailles..."

#poem #throwback
Auntie - A Poem - Stewed Pears . com
I'm finding a lot of synchronicity with this ekphrastic poetry series. Or it could just be that I'm drawn to art which infuses everyday
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November 1, 2026 at 12:59 AM
nancysobanik.bsky.social
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Achieving Poetic Clarity
In ekphrastic poems, or any poems for that matter
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October 31, 2026 at 4:46 PM