Resources for the Ekphrastic Poetry Workshop, 2026, Poetry Saves Lives Festival, Grand Rapids
Sample Poems
Poem: Why I Am Not a Painter by Frank O’Hara
Artwork: Sardines by Mike Goldberg
Poem: The Tall Figures of Giacometti by May Swenson
Artwork: City Square by Alberto Giacometti
Poem: Monet’s Waterlilies by Robert Hayden
Artwork: Water Lilies by Monet
Three Poems about the Same Painting
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus by William Carlos Williams
Musee de Beaux Arts by W.H. Auden
Rebuttal by Lucia Perillo (in her book Inseminating the Elephant/Time Will Clean the Carcass Bones)
More Resources
Victoria Chang’s Ekphrastic Poetry Reading List
