2022 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 13
For the 2022 November PAD Chapbook Challenge, poets are tasked with writing a poem a day in the month of November before assembling a chapbook manuscript in the month of December. Day 13 gets a little artistic.
(Note: I apologize for the late prompt this morning. There's usually a day or three each daily challenge month when I have a later prompt, and this appears to be one of those days. Happy poeming!)
For today's prompt, write an ekphrastic poem. An ekphrastic poem is essentially a poem that responds to another piece of art, whether that's a painting, photograph, sculpture, mixed media, etc. These pieces may describe the art, but they also may spring off in completely new directions.
For today's prompt, you can write an ekphrastic poem about a piece of art you choose on your own. But if you need ideas, I've also included a few ekphrastic "doors" here that may help prompt your poem (links from one of my favorite museums, the Cleveland Museum of Art):
Remember: These prompts are springboards to creativity. Use them to expand your possibilities, not limit them.
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Here’s my attempt at an Ekphrastic Poem:
“Song”
-after "The Power of Music," by William Sidney Mount
At first, you may not know what it is--
the sound that breaks the silence
and calls attention to itself. The screech
of a bow across strings, the thump of feet
upon a wooden plank. But then, the sound
beckons you from your labor and your worry
so that for a brief moment,
sometimes not even for an entire song,
you feel nothing except extremely human.
Robert Lee Brewer is Senior Editor of Writer's Digest, which includes managing the content on WritersDigest.com and programming virtual conferences. He's the author of 40 Plot Twist Prompts for Writers: Writing Ideas for Bending Stories in New Directions, The Complete Guide of Poetic Forms: 100+ Poetic Form Definitions and Examples for Poets, Poem-a-Day: 365 Poetry Writing Prompts for a Year of Poeming, and more. Also, he's the editor of Writer's Market, Poet's Market, and Guide to Literary Agents. Follow him on Twitter @robertleebrewer.
