Thank you Alex! And thank you Ann and John. And thank you Matt (we cross-posted)
It's so lovely that the Sphere has art forums!
I'll do my best to offer constructive peer critique to any art and visual poetry that is posted, similar to the type of critique that I've benefited from in the metrical forums.
I was talking to the very lovely Jayne Osborne, and she suggested that an informal challenge might be a fun thing to run in the art forums to celebrate them (a challenge that involves poetry and doesn't require robust drawing skills).
So..a challenge:
Poetry/Image match challenge.
Have you a poem which yearns for an image to accompany it? If so, then the challenge is to either create an image yourself which works with your poem, or find an image that works with your poem and share it.
This isn't a reverse ekphrastic challenge - it's more about you choosing an image that you think adds to your poem in some way. Think about it in the same way that you'd choose cover art for a chapbook or the image accompanying the work in an online journal!
Once you've chosen an image, please
post a link to the image to this thread in the art forum, with your poem.
(Note about copyright - if you take from the web, please credit your source and post a link to the image rather taking a screen grab and uploading it. If you want to upload an image into the thread, then there are some great sites out there like
pixabay who have beautiful free images - you just need to credit the image holder if required (it tells you by the picture if this is required or not)