Ekphrastic Poetry: A Writer Finds Messages in Her Mother's Art – guest blog post by Jackie Craven

Sorting through my mother’s belongings, I uncovered a perplexing life. She was an artist and a connoisseur of the absurd. As a child, I admired her paintings, but tiptoed past the stranger ones. In nightmares, my mother stood in a dark closet behind a portrait of a gnarled […]