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Issue 17: 29 Jan. 2023
Disjunctive Ekphrastic Micro-Poem
Sequence: 33 words
+ Visual Art: Paintings
Poem by Lorraine A Padden

+ Five paintings by four artists

The Impressionist Wing

 

Olympia’s bouquet the hidden mifepristone

carding all customers at the Folies Bergere

tweeting about her dishpan hands ballerina

exclusion zone the radiant green lilies

the misogynist’s day job piano lessons

 

 



Olympia (1863) by Édouard Manet 1
Olympia, 1863 painting by Eduoard Manet


Olympia’s bouquet the hidden mifepristone



A Bar at the Folies-Bergère (1882) by Édouard Manet 2
A Bar at the Folies-Bergere: 1882 painting by Eduoard Manet


carding all customers at the Folies Bergere



Four Dancers (ca. 1899) by Edgar Degas 3
Four Dancers: c.1899 painting by Edgar Degas


tweeting about her dishpan hands ballerina



Water Lilies (1916) by Claude Monet 4
Water Lilies: 1916 painting by Claude Monet


exclusion zone the radiant green lilies



Young Girls at the Piano (1892) by Pierre-Auguste Renoir 5
Young Girls at the Piano: 1892 painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir


the misogynist’s day job piano lessons

 

 

Publisher’s Notes:

Links below were retrieved on 7 January 2023.

1. The original painting Olympia (oil on canvas, 1863) by Édouard Manet (1832–1883) is held by Musée d’Orsay. Image above was downloaded from Wikimedia:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edouard_Manet_038.jpg

2. Manet’s painting A Bar at the Folies-Bergère (oil on canvas, 1882) is held by the Courtauld Gallery at the University of London (UK). Image above was downloaded from Wikimedia:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=83676367

3. Four Dancers (oil on canvas, ca. 1899) by Edgar Degas (1834–1917) is held by the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. Image above was downloaded from Wikimedia:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Four_Dancers_by_Edgar_Degas_(4987904881).jpg

4. Water Lilies (oil on canvas, 1916) by Claude Monet (1840–1926) is held by the National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo. Image above was downloaded from Wikimedia:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Monet_Water_Lilies_1916.jpg

5. The original painting Young Girls at the Piano (oil on canvas, 1892) by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919) is held by Musée d’Orsay. Image above was downloaded from Wikimedia:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Auguste_Renoir_-_Young_Girls_at_the_Piano_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg

Lorraine A Padden
Issue 17 (29 January 2023)

is a Touchstone Award-nominated poet whose work has been published in Modern Haiku, The Heron’s Nest, tinywords, and Frogpond, among other journals and anthologies. In August 2022, Red Moon Press will release Upwelling, her first collection of haiku, senryu, tanka, and haibun.

She won Tricycle Magazine’s 2021 Best of the Haiku Challenge, and one of her rengay collaborations with Carol Judkins received an Honorable Mention in the 2021 Haiku Society of America Rengay Competition in honor of Garry Gay. Recent awards include an Honorable Mention in the 2021 International Modern Kigo Competition and a Pinesong Award for a winning haiku in the 2022 Bloodroot Competition.

Lorraine is also a former professional ballet dancer and has received awards from the Ford Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.

 
 
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