Alex Katz, "Frank O'Hara," cutout: oil on wood (double-sided), 1959, Robert Miller Gallery (via Artsy.net ) One of ...

Shin Yu Pai ( Seattle Review of Books ) Back in 2008, the multi-talented  Shin Yu Pai published a book of collected poems entitled S...

Tomas Tranströmer (World Literature Today) In 2011, Tomas Tranströmer  (1931-2015), a highly regarded but perhaps not widely known Sw...

Lorna Dee Cervantes One of the poets whose work appears in the PINTURA: PALABRA portfolio is Lorna Dee Cervantes  (1954-). A major late...

Kenneth Patchen in 1957 with a collection of his painted books, taken on the rooftop of photographer Harry Redl's apartment house ...

Anne Carson If you were to list the iconic works of American visual art ,  Edward Hopper 's (1882-1967) " Nighthawks ," ...

John Keats If there is a perennial pre-1900s poem about art from the Anglo-American literary tradition , the English Romantic  poet  ...

Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge (Kelsey Street Press) It was only a matter of time before I posted a poem by  Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge (1947-) dur...

Carmen Giménez Smith One of my first posts this month featured a poem by Valerie Martínez , and in introducing that poem, I shared lin...

When I think of the poetry of Jorie Graham (1950-), what immediate comes to mind is a dense, philosophically and phenomenologically inf...

Elizabeth Knapp Cindy Sherman  (1954-) is one of the most important living American artists. I have to admit, though, that while admir...