Ekphrastic Poetry Contest
If you are a poet who loves the visual arts, you may be interested in entering the second annual Ekphrastic Poetry Contest, a city-wide “grass-roots” project coordinated by San Antonio poetry champions Jim LaVilla-Havelin and Linda Simone in honor of National Poetry Minth, which is in April.
For the 2022 contest, the organizers are collaborating with five San Antonio museums: The McNay, the Witte, the Briscoe, Ruby City and the San Antonio Museum of Art. Each has selected one art piece from its collection. That’s one more museum than last year, which was the inaugural year for the event.
Poets can submit two poems, inspired by two different artworks, if they are so inclined. Deadline for submissions: March 23, 2022.