Art Begats Poems: More Baby Poems

Some time Thursday or Friday or Saturday, spend an hour in the Ortlip Gallery looking at the work in the Juried Student Art Show.

My suggestion is that you make an initial pass or tour of the work on display, noting the pieces that catch your eye or that arouse interest or curiosity. Go back to the several pieces that you made notes about and look at those few until you find one that triggers something, that starts a chain of associations, or that gives you a poetic line or that creates a poem idea. 

 Then write a poem from that starting point.

When you post this poem (class time Tuesday), you will  want to give credit to the artist/work in some way either with identifiers in the poem itself, or in the title of your poem, or in an italicized "dedication" line under the title (after Stud Dent's painting, Wreckless Love).

The poem should be long enough to do something with the inspiration (let's arbitrarily say a minimum of 6 lines), and it can take any form you choose.  It does not have work in concert with the poem itself; all it needs is a clear jumping off point.

When the Senior Art Show is put up and open, we can repeat this assignment.