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Excerpt Tuesday – At North Farm – Ashbery
Somewhere someone is traveling toward you, At incredible speed, traveling day and night, Through blizzards and desert heat… John Ashbery Today’s excerpt comes from Mr. John Ashbery’s fascinating poem,...
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Short Poem Saturday – Goya’s “Two Old People Eating Soup”– Van Duyn
Today’s poem, by Mona Van Duyn, is a wonderful example of ekphrastic poetry – poetry in response to another work of art. I responded with my illustration for the poem before I checked to see precisely...
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Excerpt Tuesday – Those Winter Sundays – Hayden
Robert Hayden probably knew a thing or two about cold winter mornings, having grown up in Detroit in the early part of last century. He published his first poetry book at 27 and later went on to become...
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Short Poem Saturday – Don’t Worry, Spiders – Issa
“Don’t Worry, Spiders” was the very first haiku I posted on Illustrated Poetry! At the time, I paired it with a photograph I had taken of a brightly lit window at night – I thought of it like a Motel 6...
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Wednesday Doodle – The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock – Eliot
I fully admit this one started as a doodle during a work meeting and then I kept working on it, having a good time blending the graphite on the matte photo paper that I rescued from the recycling bin a...
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Excerpt Tuesday –“To freight cars in the air”– Williams
I remember learning many years ago that William Carlos Williams was both a physician and a poet – that he chose both professions equally and in turn each informed and influenced the other. I have...
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Short Poem Saturday – El Hombre – Williams
It is strange for me to think of William Carlos Williams as being undiscovered or overshadowed: his poetry certainly keeps up with all of the other titans of poetry in every anthology I come across....
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Excerpt Wednesday – The Sound of Waves – Williams
This post was meant to be an Excerpt Tuesday, but yesterday became unexpectedly busy and so here we are today! This will be my last William Carlos Williams collage in the series kicking off 2016. I’ve...
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Excerpt Tuesday -On Being an Artist – Kocot
Saturn seems habitual, The way it rages in the sky When we’re not looking… -Noelle Kocot- I am pleased to present today’s illustrated excerpt, as it represents the first collaborative effort of 2016...
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Double Original Friday – Smuggler’s Cave – plus Award!
This haiku was inspired by a recent visit to a real life smuggler’s cave near the U.S.-Mexico border. It may not be on the official topological map, but it’s not much of a secret hideout anymore and a...
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Excerpt Wednesday – Let It Enfold You – Bukowski
Written towards the end of a very colorful and intensely creative life, “Let it Enfold You” by Charles Bukowski (1920 – 1994), describes his arduous personal journey. I wanted to create something that...
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Short Poem Saturday – A Politician – Cummings
E.E. Cummings’ outspoken and often contrarian political views got him into trouble on several occasions during his life – he was even accused of being a spy in France during WWI. His love poetry has...
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Collaboration Tuesday – A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal – Wordsworth
…No motion has she now, no force; She neither hears nor sees; Rolled round in earth’s diurnal course, With rocks, and stones, and trees. William Wordsworth (1770 – 1850) If your journeys on WordPress...
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Short Poem Saturday – Second Fig – Millay
A Saturday morning spent playing around with photo collages and a cheeky Edna St. Vincent Millay epigram is time well spent, I say! Have a wonderful weekend, enjoy the collage, and perhaps be inspired...
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Excerpt Tuesday – Indian Boarding School: The Runaways – Erdrich
The only time I look at the stats page on my WordPress dashboard is when I accidentally click on it when trying to do something else! So this was how I learned that I had just put up my 400th post a...
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Excerpt Tuesday – Half-way – Craig
I often stew on poems (and a poet’s blog, for that matter) for a long time before coming up with an illustration, so today’s post has been a comparative whirlwind for me! I have only recently become...
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Short Poem Saturday – Grateful is Sleep – Buonarroti
The painter and sculptor Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) wrote this quatrain on his own sculpture Night, which is one of several masterpieces of his decorating the Medici Tomb in Florence. With...
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Excerpt Wednesday – The Darkling Thrush – Hardy
Thomas Hardy wrote The Darkling Thrush in 1899, on the eve of a new century, and used the common bird as a symbol for his trepidation and hope for the future. An interesting article from 2009 (click...
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Short Poem Saturday – Lines for a Christmas Card – Belloc
The impertinence and satire oozing from this epigram is a not-so-subtle glimpse into the career and life of the writer behind it. Hilaire Belloc was one of the most prolific British authors of his time...
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Excerpt Wednesday – Cat in An Empty Apartment – Szymborska
I have to thank Maia T. (a shaman, poet, and cross-stitcher who lives in rural Scotland – check out her blog here!) for introducing me to this poem. This poem is from the cat’s perspective and Ms....
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