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It's American Archives Month - Find a poem spark in an online archive

10/5/2016

 
Taking cues from ekphrastic poems that respond to personal or public photographs, or to online videos, poems like the following...

Children Walk on Chairs to Cross a Flooded Schoolyard - Patrick Rosal
The 8th of May: A Vow Made for the 7th of May - Daniel Nathan Terry
Old Photographs - Gabeda Baderoon

...or like these which respond to the same famous photograph...
War Photograph - Kate Daniels
The Uncropped Photograph--Nick Ut's Vietnam, June 8, 1972 - Gary Dop

...browse your favorite archive for an image to use as a spark.  

Perhaps an image in one of these online archives might intrigue you:
American Memory: Photograph Collections - LoC
​Calisphere - U of California
LIFE Photo Archive - Google
National Archives Photo Collections
National Museum of African American History and Culture
New York Digital Library: Photography Collections - NYPL
Virginia Memory - LVA

And if that makes you hungry for more art to engage with, check out Rattle's monthly ekphrastic challenge.

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