Sample Ekphrastic Poems and Visual Art

1. Herrera, Juan Felipe. “La Campana.” Loteria Cards and Fortune Poems: A Book of Lives, City
Lights Books, 199, pp. 12-13. (After Artemio Rodriguez’s La Campana, linocut, 1999).
2. Szymborska, Wislawa. “Two Monkeys by Brueghel.” Sounds, Feelings, Thoughts: Seventy Poems
by Wislawa Szymborska, trans. by Magnus J. Krynski and Robert A. Maguire, Princeton
University Press, 1981, p. 21. (After Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Two Monkeys, oil on panel, 1562).
3. Pommy Vega, Janine. “The Poppy of Georgia O’Keefe.” Heart to Heart: New Poems Inspired by
Twentieth-Century American Art, Edited by Jan Greenberg, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. 2001, p. 47.
(After Georgia O’Keefe’s Poppy, oil on canvas, 1927).
4. Dolin, Sharon. “Ochre.” Serious Pink, Marsh Hawk Press, 2003, p. 13. (After Richard
Diebenkorn’s Ochre, woodcut in colors on Mitsumata paper, 1983).
5. Fambrough, Monica. “Don’t you think salt is pretty?” Poet’s on Painters, Edited by Katie Geha
and Travis Nichols, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, 2007, pp.103-106. (After
Amy Sillman’s Untitled, oil on canvas, 2006).
6. Yolen, Jane. “Grant Wood: American Gothic.” Heart to Heart: New Poems Inspired by Twentieth-
Century American Art. Edited by Jan Greenberg, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. 2001, p. 39. (After Grant
Wood’s American Gothic, oil on beaverboard, 1930).
7. Young, Kevin. “Dos Cabezas,” To Repel Ghosts: Remixed from the Original Masters, Alfred A.
Knopf, 2010, pp. 34-35. (After Jean-Michael Basquiat’s Dos Cabezas, acrylic and oil stick on
canvas with wood supports, 1982).
8. Cross Davis, Teri Ellen. "Odalisque." Haint, Gival Press, 2016, p. 55. (After Félix-Jacques
Moulin's Untitled photograph, 1850s).