To walk into a gallery, to look poetically at a painting, photograph or sculpture can take a poet both
deeper within the self and beyond the self. But in doing so, despite the long tradition of ekphrastic
poetry and its current resurgence, compelling questions arise: Is the poem then in some way an art
heist? Is it a reproduction or a conversation with the work of art? What gap lies between the poem and
the art?

Panelists: Ruth Roach Pierson, Jim Nason, Maureen Hynes