ekphrastic The Miramichi Reader

Winter in June by Lorette C. Luzajic

July 25, 2021July 24, 2021 by Bill Arnott

Winter in June is a collection of flash fiction and prose poems from multimedia artist Lorette C. Luzajic, editor of The Ekphrastic Review (TER), a literary journal focusing on that rich facet of creativity – art inspired by other art.

Forever Cast in Endless Time by Bill Arnott

July 11, 2021July 11, 2021 by P. W. Bridgman

The poems in Forever Cast in Endless Time offer a delightful tour of lands and seas and birds and bees and a gentle walk thorough the creative mind of Bill Arnott.

To Measure the World by Karen Shenfeld

June 21, 2020 by Bill Arnott

In To Measure the World, Karen Shenfeld confronts the chimerical nature of love — erotic, domestic, familial — and its power to sustain and harm.

The title alone grabbed me, a peripatetic pull akin to the tug of backpack … Continue reading

A Poem by Mala Rai

January 19, 2021May 22, 2020 by Mala Rai

Alexis Applin’s painting, "Isolation" — (Ekphrastic accompaniment to Alexis Applin’s painting, “Isolation”, 2020)

tofino sunrise, 7am
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last night i couldn’t sleep / a march storm rankled ashore / soldering doubt neck deep
harmonies echoed in the void / i tried to sing along in … Continue reading

Walk Away Silver Heart by Frank Prem

April 4, 2020April 4, 2020 by Bill Arnott

I’m a fan of the ekphrastic medium – inspired creativity, examples of life imitating art, or more accurately, art imitating art, building on the existing with fresh interpretation. Poet Frank Prem leaps into the genre with his poetry, inspired by Amy Lowell’s Madonna of the Evening Flowers.

Pretty Time Machine: ekphrastic prose poems by Lorette C. Luzajic

March 21, 2020March 21, 2020 by Bill Arnott

In Pretty Time Machine, Lorette Luzajic does what she does best, finding those veins in art’s ore, revelations resulting in a complementary shared experience. Enlightening moments. The ekphrasis of life.