Jim Dine – The Crommelynck Gate with Tools

Ekphrastic Poetry –Using Art to Inspire Words

Okay I said let’s have a square word square maybe will lead us to round.

And they groaned they groaned and they frownedevery one except onelittle voice way in the back saidToast.

A WordGary Gildner

Give me I said to those roundyoung faces a round wordand they looked at me fully puzzled until finallyseveral cried What do you mean?

I mean I said round roundyou know about roundand Oh yes they said but give us examples!

Arthur Dove – That Red One

Thomas Hart Benton - Down by the Riverside

Down by the Riverside by Dave Etter

Uncle Royhas done itagain. He has sailed our bright orange kitewith the longand fancytail intothe summersky. He willsoon make itfly higherand higher.My sisterLucindaprances on spongy grass.Our yellowdog Barneybarks and barkshis doggieapproval.Mom and Dadhave seen lotsof orange kitesdance in awarm breeze. Momgulps a colddrink while Dadis busyat the grillcooking meat.Both of themleave us to our young joydown by the riverside.

Stuart Davis – Premier

Stuart Davis: Premier, 1957by X. J. Kennedy

With large and swollen bag of milk.She stands, this stabled cow.Black cat pads in on cushioned feet To raise a loud MEOW.

Now farmer squeezes bag – oh, seeThe warm white fluid sluice! – As fat cat begs for any dropOf creamy new cow juice.

Well fed, cat purrs, one hundred perCent sound asleep, it seems,While Sandman sprinkles her for freeFrom his large bag of dreams.

George Bellows – Stag at Sharkey’s

Grant Wood - American Gothic

Grant Wood: American Gothic by Jane Yolen

Do not dwell on the fork,the brooch at the throat,the gothic angel wingof window pointing towarda well-tended heavenDo not become a farmer counting cows as if the number of the herddefines you.Look behind the eyes,to see who looks out at you.We are not what we own.We own what we would be.

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Edvard Munch – The Scream