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Khaleej Modern: Pioneers and Collectives in the Arabian Peninsula
How did art evolve in the Arabian Peninsula? What was the journey like? Who were the architects of this evolving art world? What started the different movements and where has it reached? This...
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Winter Art Residency - A Milestone, First of its kind by the Kerala...
The TravelOn short notice, I grabbed all things essential most of which were art related, pack my big bag as I intend to spend some days after the residency with my parents and depart to the airport on...
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Day Two-Napowrimo-Woman Who Rode Away
Day 2 of NaPoWriMoWrite a poem that directly addresses someone, and that includes a made-up word, an odd/unusual simile, a statement of “fact,” and something that seems out of place in time (like a...
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Day Three-Napowrimo-Why I am not a Mind Reader?
Day Three - NaPoWriMoAnd now for our (optional) prompt. The American poet Frank O’Hara was an art critic and friend to numerous painters and poets In New York City in the 1950s and 60s. His poems...
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Day Four-Napowrimo-Embracing Couple
...today’s (optional) prompt. In her poem, “Living with a Painting,” Denise Levertov describes just that. And well, that’s a pretty universal experience, isn’t it? It’s the rare human structure – be it...
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Day Five-Napowrimo-Louder than Possible
today’s (optional) prompt is inspired by musical notation, and particularly those little italicized –and often Italian – instructions you’ll find over the staves in sheet music, like con allegro or...
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Day Six-Naopwrimo-Tea
Napowrimo Day Six: Today’s prompt (optional, as always) veers slightly away from our ekphrastic theme. To get started, pick a number between 1 and 10. Got your number? Okay! Now scroll down until you...
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Day Seven-Napowrimo-Why I am Not a Dream Catcher
Napowrimo: Here’s our prompt for the day – as always, optional. A few days ago, we looked at Frank O’Hara’s poem in which he explained why he was not a painter. Jane Yeh’s “Why I Am Not a Sculpture”...
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Day Eight-Napowrimo- Seeking You- A Ghazal
Napowrimo: here’s today’s totally optional prompt!The ghazal (pronounced kind of like “huzzle,” with a particularly husky “h” at the beginning) is a form that originates in Arabic poetry, and is often...
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Day Nine-Napowrimo-The Night Call
Napowrimo: here’s our optional prompt for the day. Like music, poetry offers us a way to play with and experience sound. This can be through meter, rhyme, varying line lengths, assonance, alliteration,...
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Day Ten-Napowrimo-Occam's razor
Napowrimo: our daily prompt (optional, as always). Yesterday, we looked at a poem that used sound in a very particular way, to create a slow and mysterious feeling. Mark Bibbins’ poem, “At the End of...
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Day Eleven-Napowrimo-Hopeful: A Villanelle
Napowrimo: today’s (optional) prompt. Take a look at Kyle Dargan’s “Diaspora: A Narcolepsy Hymn.” This poem is a loose villanelle that uses song lyrics as its repeating lines (loose because it doesn’t...
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Day Twelve: NaPoWriMo: Symphony of Ahalya: The Silence, the Song
NaPoWriMo: Today, we’d like to challenge you to write a poem inspired by Wallace Stevens’ poem, “Peter Quince at the Clavier.” It’s a complex poem that not only heavily features the idea of music, but...
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Day Fourteen-NaPoWriMo-The Rise of a Riotous Song
NaPoWriMo: today, try writing a poem that describes a place, particularly in terms of the animals, plants or other natural phenomena there. Sink into the sound of your location, and use a...
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Day Fifteen-NaPoWriMo-Two Poems
NaPoWriMo: now for our (optional) daily prompt. The MC5 was a 1960s rock band. If you’ve heard anything by them–and you likely have–it’s their 1969 song Kick Out the Jams.Jesse Crawford, otherwise...
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Day Sixteen-NaPoWriMo-In the Kitchen Steam
NaPoWriMo: Today, try writing a poem that imposes a particular song on a place. Describe the interaction between the place and the music using references to a plant and, if possible, incorporate a...
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Day Seventeen-NaPoWriMo-Alchemy of the Two
NaPoWriMo: ...now for our daily optional prompt. The surrealist painters Remedios Varo and Leonora Carrington moved to Mexico during the height of World War II, where they began a life-long friendship....
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Day Eighteen -Napowrimo-At This Hour, What Sound
NaPoWriMo: Take a look at Ellen Bass’s poem, “You’re the Top.” Now, craft your own poem that recounts an experience of driving/riding and singing, incorporating a song lyric.Day Eighteen -Napowrimo-At...
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Day Twenty-Napowrimo-Carpe Diem
NaPoWriMo:write a poem informed by musical phrasing or melody, that employs some form of soundplay (rhyme, meter, assonance, alliteration). One way to approach this is to think of a song you know and...
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Day Twenty One-Napowrimo-Garden Log: Morning Report
NaPoWriMo: here’s our daily (optional) prompt. Sawako Nakayasu’s poem “Improvisational Score” is a rather surreal prose poem describing an imaginary musical piece that proceeds in a very unmusical way....
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Day TwentyTwo-NaPoWriMo-The Things That Held Me
NaPoWriMo: write a poem about something you’ve done – whether it’s music lessons, or playing soccer, crocheting, or fishing, or learning how to change a tire – that gave you a similar kind of...
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Day Twenty Three- NaPoWriMo-Koel’s Call
NaPoWriMo: Today, we’d like to challenge you to write your own poem that focuses on birdsong. Need examples? Try A.E. Stallings’ “Blackbird Etude,” or for an old-school throwback, Shelley’s “To a...
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Day Twenty Five – NaPoWriMo – The Handpan
NaPoWriMo: Today we’d like to challenge you to write a poem that recounts an experience of your own in hearing live music, and tells how it moves you. It could be a Rolling Stones concert, your little...
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Day Twenty Seven-NaPoWriMo-Inheritance
NaPoWriMo: today’s optional prompt. W.H. Auden’s “Musée des Beaux Arts” takes its inspiration from a very particular painting: Breughel’s “Landscape with the Fall of Icarus.” Today we’d like to...
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Day Twenty Eight-NaPoWriMo – Let it Roll On – A Poem Inspired by Chenda Melam
NaPoWriMo: today’s prompt (optional, as always). Music features heavily in human rituals and celebrations. We play music at parties; we play it in parades, and at weddings. In her poem, OBIT [Music],...
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