National Poetry Month Ekphrastic Project!
April is National Poetry Month
Poster “designed by twelfth grader Bao Lu from Edward R. Murrow High School in Brooklyn, New York, who was the winner of the 2021 National Poetry Month Poster Contest.” - Poets.org See more about Bao’s win at this link.
Friends, April is National Poetry Month. Not only that, this particular April, 2021, is National Poetry Month’s 25th Anniversary!
Why does that matter to a film photography collective? Because a picture is worth 1000 words, because our images are poetry, because life itself can be poetry. It also matters because supporting each other is something artists in general do, and many of us get all giggly giddy over the prospect of collaborations.
So thirty of us decided to invite thirty writers to participate in an interdisciplinary bonanza! The poets who generously agreed to play along were each given a photograph, randomly assigned, with no information besides the image, to respond to in words.
iPhone shot by Amy Jasek. Check out Melanie Faith’s other books here - she has a book on Photography for Writers!
HOW DID IT TURN OUT??
We think it’s amazing, and we are thrilled to share it with you! Watch this space: starting April 1st, one photo / poem pair will be shared here on our website, plus on our Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter each day. In May, we will share the project here on our blog in a more retrospective way.
Consider yourself officially invited to our month long ekphrastic film photographic word wizard party!
We - the photographers and the writers - can’t wait to show you what we made!