Poetry: Ekphrasis

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Ekphrastic poetry is a response to a scene or a work of art, often a work of visual art. There are whole magazines devoted to ekphrasis, including Ekphrasis: a Poetry Journal and The Ekphrastic Review.

The Fall of Icarus by Pieter Brueghel