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We are pleased to share the work of the following artists and writers in the 28th issue of The Light Ekphrastic:

Taylor Bond — hello, fire/goodbye, water; The Ballad of Tommy (poetry)

Suzanne Coley — One Hundred Years; Pale Spirit (art)

Teresa Duggan — Blue Cadillac, Pink House; frosty warm glow (art)

Katy Kim — One Hundred Years; Lunar (poetry)

Chris Koch — (study for) The Graces In Their Boredom; The Driver Finds Infinity Beneath a Bright Sky (art)

Catherine Maire — Progress; Winter (poetry)

Gina Pierleoni — The Deepest Sleep; Lamentation (art)

A. Garnett Weiss — Surrender; For Nathan Cirillo, soldier (poetry)

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We are pleased to share the work of the following artists and writers in the 27th issue of The Light Ekphrastic:

Anna Bernstein — Wild Boar; To the Man Who Winked at Me on the Train (poetry)

Morgan Downie — Contour; Treasured/Mermaid’s Tears (art)

Edward Doyle-Gillespie — Between Sets at The Top of the World Café; Through Elephant Grass (poetry)

J.C. Elkin — Birds on Birds; Winter White (poetry)

Sylvia Fischbach-Braden — Birds on Birds; Take-Out (art)

Allen Forrest — Blues Boogie; Through Elephant Grass (art)

Juliette Goodwin — Untitled; Winky (art)

TS Hidalgo — R&D; A country is built slowly, (poetry)

Christine Higgins — The Shell; Beach Glass (poetry)

Clinton Inman — Untitled (art)

Avelino Maestas — The White Virgin (art)

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We are pleased to share the work of the following artists and writers in the 26th issue of The Light Ekphrastic:

Jeanne DeLarm-Neri – My Mother’s 99th Birthday, The Wedding Of (poetry)

Elizabeth Downing – An Underwater Spirit, Bliss (art)

Gail Fishman Gerwin – The Mile, Bliss (poetry)

Emory D. Jones – Singing Grandma, O’Keefe (poetry)

Sanzi Kermes – II, Big Eyed Bride (art)

Margo Lemieux – Aphotic Reverie, Awakening (poetry)

Katherine Menon – Piercing Shadow, Saturday Morning Ritual (poetry)

Bonnie Schupp – Alice, Stone Flower (art)

Christy Sheffield Sanford – Squid Dreams II, Awakening (art)

Martha Simons – Crow Spirits 2, Buddha Bunny (art)

Ron Singer – “Zu Hot!”, The Grid Effect (poetry)

Jenna M. Sterner – Don’t Let the Light In, It Gets Too Hot; Beyond the Grid (art)

Artist Bios – May 2016

We are pleased to share the work of the following artists and writers in the 25th issue of The Light Ekphrastic:

Lauren Coggins – When I Worked at the Camera Shop; A Night and the Next Morning (poetry)

Marlayna Demond – Harpers Ferry; Speaking Through Rocks (art)

Linda Franklin – HER at Ease; Illusion of Future for Him (art)

Michael Gebelein – We do have things in common; Apocolypse tomorrow (poetry)

Charlie “Isa” Guzman – Bird Janus; Ruido Pequeno/Small Noises (poetry)

Richard Manly Heiman – Moon Like a Sun Like a Montage; Dali at home (poetry)

Karen Klinedinst – Morning Moon; Toward the Blue (art)

Angel Aragón Mureddu – Daedalus 1; Where the Star Rests Everyday (Absence) (art)

Artist Bios – February 2016

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We are pleased to share the work of the following artists and writers in the 24th issue of The Light Ekphrastic:

David B. Bagwell – Extinction, squares and circles (art)

Eleanor Edgeworth – Blooming, Passing (art)

Christopher Justice – A Geometry Long Forgotten, Squares and Circles (poetry)

Jennifer Lothrigel – Individuation, Creation Story (art)

Tom Pescatore – Lauryl, Snowy Peaks of the Desert (poetry)

Geraldine Pontius – Tribeca Homeland, Eight Photos (art)

Marsha Rosenzweig Pincus – Daphne, Redrock (art)

Jay Sheets – What Hands Wish To Be, The Great World (poetry)

Sarah Smith – Ventilation Tower for the Holland Tunnel, Evensong (poetry)

Carol A. Stephen – A Desert Flowering, If I Leave (poetry)

Artist Bios – November 2015

We are pleased to share the work of the following artists and writers in the 23rd issue of The Light Ekphrastic:

Elena Berriolo – Oh, If I Could Write Music; A Season Unfinished (art)

Apala Bhowmick – Reduced Visibility; How to Build a Terrarium (poetry)

Ann Bracken – The Apple in His Eyes; Mrs. S. (poetry)

Cindy Brown – Alpha, Untitled 29 (poetry)

Melissa Penley Cormier – Untitled; selenic blues (art)

S.J. Crane – Vesuvius; A Season Unfinished (poetry)

Morgan Downie – Molnform; Untitled 29 (art)

David Eberhardt – Through the Stone Henge; Blind Girl (poetry)

Beatriz F. Fernandez – Homeland, Crows (poetry)

George Hagegeorge – Untitled; Bricks (poetry)

Mary Huddleston – Beach Scene; The Remains of the Day (art)

Janet Little Jeffers – Swoop; Sky, Beckoning (art)

Mary Jesionowski – Ancient Rites I, Ancient Rites II (art)

Leslie F. Miller – jane doe; ode to Monday (poetry)

Catherine Moore – Time Lapse; The Moon Insists (poetry)

Andrea Noel – Apple of God’s Eye; Mrs. S. (art)

Barbara Ruth – The Beauty of Wrinkles; Terrarium in the Tunnel of Dreams (art)

Laura Smith – Divers Down; Crows (art)

Adel Souto – Untitled; Monday (art)

Prasanna Surakanti – Where Life Is; Unfledged Starling (poetry)

Artist Bios – August 2015

We are pleased to share the work of the following artists and writers in the 22nd issue of The Light Ekphrastic:

Ram Brisueño – Oracle; an ecstasy between us (paintings)

Cheryl Fair – Off Season; The Aeneid (photography)

Kate Gillespie – Hyporheric Hibernaculum; Rahilia, in pieces (poetry)

Trish Hopkinson – Eurydice’s Cardinal; A Leveling (poetry)

Janet Maher – Woolen Mill #7; Folly and Peril; Measured Thus (encaustic collage)

Avelino Maestas – A River Once Ran Through It; Casual Expression (photography)

Anna Mirzayan – Graffiti Queen; Writing time at Philz. (poetry)

Tim Singleton – An Ecstasy of Flowers; Between Us, a haibun (poetry)

Patricia Wentzel – Woolen Mill #7; In Search of This and That (poetry)

Beth Williams – The Storm Before the Calm; Precipice (fabric collage)

Artist Bios – May 2015

We are pleased to share the work of the following Baltimore-area artists and writers who participated in The Baltimore Ekphrasis Project, a special collaboration between LED Baltimore and The Light Ekphrastic.

See the work from the LED Baltimore Art Board (presented March 16-April 12) here.

Congratulations to all who participated!

Elinor Abbott – Dear Ethan Hawke; Snooze Button
Carlton Anderson – Rain; Traveling
Amy Arthur – Lonicera Japonica; Bud Scar
Baltimore Hoop Love – Play; Of Light And Water
David Beaudouin – A Natural Bent; After “Sweet Talk”
Jennifer Bishop – King; Untitled
William Brown – Pain & Wisdom; Dwelling on the Past
Jacob Budenz – Earth Is the Target,/We Are the Trigger,/Ashes! Ashes!/We Don’t Fall Down; Pastel Witch
Dottie Campbell – Dragon Dreams; Queen Calafia’s Morning Mirror
Dayna Carpenter – Untitled; Colliding Coasts
Se Jong Cho – Window; Teeth
Juliana Converse – Boy the Wonder and Olivia Have a Drink; Sea House
Caryn Coyle – Detour; Discarded Roses
Matthew Clarke Davis – Sweet Talk; Conflict Fruit
Marlayna Demond – Untitled; Fleeting
Tracy Dimond – Lost Time and Gloves; Maintain Effervescence
Jim Doran – Sea House; The Room of Indefinite Holding
Edward Doyle-Gillespie – Queensbury Rules; Far From Enoch
Christian Elder – Floating Island in the Galaxy; Untitled
Aurora Engle-Pratt – Homeward; Salt White
Cheryl Fair – Transcendental Homelessness; Genes/Jeans
Katie Feild – (snowfall); (open)
Sylvia Fischbach-Braden – Big Top; Season of the Heart
Jared T. Fischer – Pork Mama Vaping; Hippo Piggy Flies a Kite
Fitz Fitzgerald – Sun Papers; LED
Eric D. Goodman – Places; Wisdom and Pain
Juliette Goodwin – Camera Morte; Rowhouse Dream
Alina Grigorovitch – On the Hill of Trees; Out From the Secret World
Tracy Hauser – After Night; Cinder
A. J. Hayes – Winter; The Greatest You on Earth
Matt Hohner – Of Light and Water; Pulse
Lorraine Imwold – Rail Grind; Untitled
Dave K. – Your Parents Still Have Sex; Shut Up You Idiot Pt. III
Ashlie Kauffman – from Isamu Dreams of Flying; Just like a lighthouse sitting in a dark, distant universe
Sanzi Kermes – Daddy Long Legs; Symmetry
Dylan Kinnett – Kite; Conversation at the Jubilee Cafe
Leonard Kogan – Parallels; Endogenous Throb
Minás Konsolas – Broken Mirror; Untitled
Kevin Krause – On a Morning Run at Druid Hill Lake; For Tityrus
Judith Krummeck – A Fancy; My bellwether
Seola Lee – Popped, My Helium Heart; The Door
Dara Lorenzo – Always in One Place and Not the Other; I Saw You
Kate MacKinnon – no more blue skies 3; I Have Not Forgotten
Kat Malone – 4 Silent Things; Untitled
Howard Markman – Welcome to Smalltimore; Between the Glasphault and the Stars
Mandy May – Red; Dawn Thaw
Anthony Moll – Orpheus with the Awkward Foot; His Grace
Tim Nohe – Candles for Faust; The Little Owl Seamstress
Nicole K. Ostrowski – Bliss; Passion
Erin Ouslander – The Donautilus; Young Ethan Hawke Wants to Give You This Kitten
Carly Richmond – Amaryllis; Nestled
Maggie Robbins – Living Roam; Water More
Heather Rounds – Huberta; Untitled
Magan Ruthke – What Mykonos is Made Of; nerves like wires
Bob Schofield – The Sky is No Longer Where I Left It; Space Garden
Whitney G. Schultz – Public Displays of Affection; Prayer for Moath
Laura Shovan – Symmetry; Daddy Long Legs Speaks
Mary K. Skeen – Paradise Lost; Listen
Anna Slesinski – Planting; Until Now
CarlaJean Valluzzi – A Trick of Twilight; Contraposto
Gregg Wilhelm – Jutting Out; Arithmetic of an Argument
Beth Williams – Way Out; The Gravity of the Situation
Edward Williams – Mt. DeSales; Boxer of Queensbury Rules
Rupert Wondolowski – Spring Makes Me Small; Untitled
Matthew Zingg – For Sure We Are Two Human Beings; Untitled
Mychael Zulauf – Untitled, Untitled

ARTIST and WRITER Bios

We are pleased to share the work of the following artists and writers in the 21st issue of The Light Ekphrastic:

Brett Busang – Rockpile; A House in the Distance (paintings)

Jennifer Elmore – To the Artist; The Connecticut (poetry)

Allen Forrest – Fair Trade Coffee Woman Working (painting); Defiance (drawing)

Kristin LaFollette – Deed’s Creek; Cat People (poetry)

Isabelle P. Laureta – Fear; Constantly Fickle (paintings)

Lalita Noronha – Defiance; Fair Trade (poetry)

Nicole K. Ostrowski – Liquid Daffodils; Yesteryear (paintings)

Carol A. Stephen – What is Still Beautiful; the I in the hurricane (poetry)

A. Garnett Weiss – Antigua; Woman of ice, woman of glass (poetry)

Nancy Wynn – Prolongational Existence; The ‘I’ in hurricane (photographic illustration)

Artist Bios – Feb. 15

We are pleased to share the work of the following artists and writers in the 20th issue of The Light Ekphrastic:
Sandy Anderson — Untitled; Plié, Tendu, Relevé (paintings)

Sam Corfman — Between Birds; Stonework (poetry)

Eleanor Edgeworth — Flight at Dawn; Grace From Stone (mixed media paintings)

Juliannah Harrison — Horizon Joe; Motherhood (izanami-no-Mikato births kagu Tsuchi (causer of fire)) (drawings)

Katie Hogan –– Breaking Bread; Between Worlds (poetry)

Maureen Hynes — The New Calligrapher; To bring people back from the dead (poetry)

Sharain Mines — Breaking Bread; True Reflection (paintings)

Erin Ouslander — Sticks and Stones Will Heal My Bones

Francine Rubin — Views of a City; Translation (poetry)

Dina Riddle — Changes; Sand in the Cactus (paintings)

John Ronan — The Watchman; Death, A Definition (poetry)

Jordan Shelton — Jobbs: Typographic Portrait

Monique Zamir — The Red Ventricle Fractures into Pieces; On Television (poetry)

Artist Bios — November 2014