The annual "A Poem in Our Eyes" display at Schlow Library highlights the connection between teen photographers and elderly ...

The form known as ekphrasis — or poetry about art — has taken a turn toward the individual. Our columnist asks what it means.

UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: Dial-A-Poem - William Burroughs. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #2: This reading is from an unpublished book entitled "Ah Pook Is Here." CHANG: Poet and performance artist John Giorno ...

Metaphor is the root and branch of poetry, of thought itself, the first human tool that permitted us to imagine the potential state of tools and ornaments from raw materials. Its state of potential is ...

Like many people, poet Holly Lyn Walrath created all kinds of visual art as a kid in school. Drawings, finger paintings — you name it. But, like many of us do as we grow up, she abandoned it after ...

An ekphrastic poem is a a poem written about a piece of art. Ruth Ann Meyers Kulp, a Lancaster-based poet, wrote "Night Trees" after a flash of inspiration brought on by a photograph, "Charter Hall." ...

Sydney Williams recites her poem "Squinting in a Misty Forest" in the Museum of Art. She stands in front of the painting she based the poem on, titled "November Montclair." (Courtesy of Sydney ...

What’s black and white and read all over? The answer is artist, poet, and agitator Robert Montgomery’s monumental new installation called Hammersmith Poem. Unveiled this week at Hammersmith Town Hall, ...

Poet and performance artist John Giorno launched Dial-a-Poem in the 1960s to deliver random poems over the phone. Now, a group continues his work on a new medium — the internet. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1 ...