Ekphrasis

I’ll be co-editing qarrtsiluni with Lori Witzel of Chatoyance for the next couple of months.

The full description of the theme and how to submit is here, but here’s a short version:

This qarrtsiluni theme pairs submissions in poetry, or poetic prose, with a form of visual art. Ideally they need not be by the same person: this is a collaborative experiment. Non-bloggers are particularly encouraged to participate. Find a partner whose work you admire and have at it!

The visual art contributions will be posted in our gallery awaiting writers – check back often over the next two weeks, as we will have more to share.

All work, visual and otherwise, will be reviewed and juried by the editors before publishing. Poems should be no longer than 30 lines; prose pieces should be no longer than 500 words. Image files should be a maximum of 500 pixels in width.

Please take a look, and consider partnering with someone (they can be dead: if you’d like to write a poem about or inspired by Las Meninas, please feel free), or if you’d like to send in a photo or a piece of art you think might lend itself to poetry, send them in!