From the founder, Gretna Wilkinson, Ph.D.: The RavensPerch is an online international literary and visual arts magazine. We welcome established as well as emerging writers, tomorrow’s stars. TRP is unique in that the platform brings the literary world together across generations: a home for adults, young adults and children. We publish poetry, fiction, non-fiction and visual art. We are interested in writing that makes us react — all the way from calmly to boisterously. We even give you permission to break our hearts and make us ask for more. Thank you, Dave Seter, for letting me know about The RavensPerch. Dave has four poems in the February 9, 2023 issue.
Month: February 2023
What would you like to learn? . . . Prompt #704
What would you like to learn? You can start by using one or more of these sentence starts: I want to learn . . . I want to learn how to . . . I am learning . . . #justwrite #iamwriting #iamawriter
Why I Love Writing Ekphrastic Poetry
Why I Love Writing Ekphrastic Poetry by Guest Blogger, Robin Gabbert Yes, I do love writing ekphrastic poetry! It’s poetry that never requires a prompt besides the piece of art you are viewing — be it a painting, a sculpture, a collage, digital rendering, or other artistic presentation such as dance, drama, and music (so hearing counts). You don’t have to search for writing prompts beyond your nearest museum or gallery (or their website) or a visit to WikiArt or Google Arts & Culture to search for your favorite artist or browse for something new that sparks your imagination. Ekphrastic poetry has been with us since at least the time of Homer and has been used by many of our best poets. An early example is John Keats “Ode on a Grecian Urn.” Rainer Maria Rilke was another advocate as shown in his beautifully descriptive poem “Archaic Torso of Apollo.”…
The Clandestine Life of Paintings
“The Clandestine Life of Paintings, in Poems” by Robin Gabbert. Review by Marianne Lyon. Robin Gabbert’s Magical Ekphrastic book “The Clandestine Life of Paintings, in Poems” by Robin Gabbert is inventive, otherworldly, and intriguing. The poems muse duet verses with paintings. The marriage of these creative pieces invite contemplation. They invite the mystical to emerge. The twists and leaps of Robin’s imagination are made all the more meaningful by the deeper truth of human feeling that underlines each verse. They journey us into painted worlds with words as our guides. Her poems are written in sonorous fashion much like art songs. This partnering of poems and art invites the reader to recognize our shared humanity. They pulse with nature’s beauty. Universal meaning danced my eyes from poem to painting to poem. “A Collage of Questions” isa short-found poem fashioned from questions Robin asks in her amazing book. Let these queries…