The form known as ekphrasis — or poetry about art — has taken a turn toward the individual. Our columnist asks what it means.

An ekphrastic poem is a a poem written about a piece of art. Ruth Ann Meyers Kulp, a Lancaster-based poet, wrote "Night Trees" after a flash of inspiration brought on by a photograph, "Charter Hall." ...

Sydney Williams recites her poem "Squinting in a Misty Forest" in the Museum of Art. She stands in front of the painting she based the poem on, titled "November Montclair." (Courtesy of Sydney ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NEW YORK (AP) -- Whimsical drawings, poems and prose created by John Lennon for his acclaimed books "In His Own Write" and "A ...

Like many people, poet Holly Lyn Walrath created all kinds of visual art as a kid in school. Drawings, finger paintings — you name it. But, like many of us do as we grow up, she abandoned it after ...

What’s black and white and read all over? The answer is artist, poet, and agitator Robert Montgomery’s monumental new installation called Hammersmith Poem. Unveiled this week at Hammersmith Town Hall, ...

Where are the boundaries between adjacent literary forms? When does prose become poetry, poetry become song, song become theater? These bounds are collapsing as contemporary artists experiment. Though ...

After receiving hundreds of thousands of calls, the poet’s project almost broke the New York telephone exchange – leading to an FBI investigation. Will it cause similar chaos in the Instapoet era? In ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Whimsical drawings, poems and prose created by John Lennon for his acclaimed books “In His Own Write” and “A Spaniard in the Works” are coming to auction. The books’ British publisher, ...