Paragones
In Paragones, my second collection of poetry, I offer readers poems that respond to works of art by female artists from around the globe. Moving beyond the ekphrastic tradition which centers on a descriptive account of an object, my poems include formal, historical, and personal responses to a variety of individual works. Paragones is a work in progress, begun when I was in residence on Governors Island through the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's COVID-19 Response Residency. While there, I had the good luck to be in residence with an amazing number of artists and writers. As poems from the collection-in-progress are published, I'm sharing them here. You can see some of the images of the work and lives that have inspired these poems by following this IG: Paragones.
