by Ann Landi | Apr 2, 2018 | Poetry
By Jean Nordhaus On James Hampton’s The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations’ Millennium General Assembly Everything begged to be saved: three-legged tables, arthritic chairs. The blind light bulbs and sprung valises longed to be lifted,...
by Ann Landi | Feb 26, 2018 | Poetry
After the painting by Berthe Morisot Andrea Watson Enter the yellow house at 5 Rue Guichard: Step through the Salon: Glimpse the terrace— Edma Pontillon, past-dawn, in her morning dress, Lily-woman among the half-closed flowers. She does not feel your eyes, the subtle...
by Ann Landi | Dec 18, 2017 | Poetry
By Leslie Ullman (from Natural Histories) After “L’Acropole,” by Paul Delvaux First he noticed my face, he said. At a distance the bones surfaced, they split the light into pools of no light and my hair, he said, so colorless yet full of breath. He would walk into...
by Ann Landi | Oct 8, 2017 | Poetry
By Lynn Levin (After Rembrandt’s The Angel Prevents the Sacrifice of Isaac in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany) With Rembrandt, it is Isaac in the foreground, bound upon the kindling, splayed across his face, his father’s hand, his body splashed with light,...
by Ann Landi | Sep 3, 2017 | Poetry
By Joan Roberta Ryan (After Caravaggio’s self-portrait as Bacchus, in the Galleria Borghese) No wine, and the fruit is scant, softening grapes to hold, and barely a bunch for the table, peaches too hard to ripen, and not a leaf among them. I pull a strand of ivy...
