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This week: Ekphrasis: Poetry About Art Edited by: Red Writing Hood <3  
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"A good poem creates a world that somehow touches the reader. That world is built of images that come to the reader through vivid sense details and the music of vivacious language."
Paul Janeczko
"Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions."
Joseph Roux (1725-1793)
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Ekphrasis: Poetry About Art
Jewelry made of brass, old silverware, and old game pieces. Photography in many forms and canvases filled with acrylics, oils and resin. I attended an art festival this weekend and as you walked through the park you saw all the lovely ways people expressed themselves.
As artists of the written word, we are lucky. We can intertwine both worlds by using the Eckphrasis poetry form.
Ekphrasis aka Ecphrasis
Ekphrasis poetry is creating a poem based on a piece of art, and as such means it is a genre form. This form has been around for hundreds and hundreds of years.
The art you write about can be anything, so don’t let yourself be pinned down by creating these poems only on paintings. Just remember that art comes in many mediums.
MUST HAVES
--Must be about a piece of art. Any kind of art can be used as your source of inspiration. NOTE: Many times the title of the poem is the same as the title of the piece of art.
COULD HAVES or WHAT IS THE POET’S CHOICE IN ALL THIS?
-- Any type of rhyme, including no rhyme—but if following another form with this genre form (example: blank verse), follow the rhyming rules of that form.
--Number of lines—but if following another form, follow the line count rules of that form.
--Number of stanzas—but if following another form, follow the stanza count rules of that form.
--Meter—but if following another form, follow the metrical rules of that form.
SOURCE NOTES:
Drury, John. the po.e.try dic.tion.ar.y. 2nd edition. Cincinnati: Writer's Digest Books, 2006. Print.
The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. Edited by Ales Preminger and T. V. F. Brogan. 1993.
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From: Tinker 
Comment: Hi Red Ridinghood, Thank you for your newsletters, they are informative and inspiring. I love honing my skills through writing in poetic form and I am inspired by poetic genres that point me in a particular direction.
Runic Verse is predicated on the power and magic of words. Word choice, particulary in poetry is paramount. Your current newsletter refers to Threnody and Runic Verse as "forms" when I believe the more perfect word would be "genres". As you know form is the frame or physical structure of a poem, rhyme or not, number of lines, stanzas, and or not meter. Genre is a type or category with a particular purpose or theme. A genre can take on any form or frame at the poet's discretion. Threnody and Runic Verse are genres. The power and magic of words. ~~Tinker
You are absolutely correct, they are genre forms (and you'll have to forgive me and my lack of preciseness, as I do use the word "form" loosely in the case of a genre focus of a poem quite often, as I've been writing for this newsletter for many years and I assume everyone has read my newsletter where I explain these differences). Thank you for mentioning it and keeping me to task
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