POETRY PAGE
Ekphrastic poetry is prose inspired by works of art. You are invited to the Wine Tasting & Ekphrastic Poetry Event on Sunday, May 18, 2025 at the San Francisco Women Artists Gallery. RSVP today!
Be sure to visit this page after May 18th to read the beautiful poetry side-by-side the artwork that inspired it.
MEET THE POETS - SUNDAY, MAY 18, 2025
Participating poets are: Dean Rader, Sarah Rosenthal, Kim Shuck, Rebekah Wolman
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Dean Rader has authored or co-authored thirteen books, including Works & Days, winner of the 2010 T. S. Eliot Prize, Landscape Portrait Figure Form, a Barnes & Noble Review Best Book, and Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry, a finalist for the Oklahoma Book Award and the Northern California Book Award. Before the Borderless: Dialogues with the Art of Cy Twombly, was published in April of 2023 and was named by Book Riot as one of ten “mesmerizing” books of modern poetry. His work has been supported by fellowships from Princeton University, Harvard University, Headlands Center for the Arts, Art Omi, and the MacDowell Foundation. Rader is a professor at the University of San Francisco and a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow in Poetry.
Sarah Rosenthal is the author of the full-length collections Estelle Meaning Star (Chax, 2024), Lizard (Chax, 2016), Manhatten (Spuyten Duyvil, 2009), and two books in collaboration with Valerie Witte: One Thing Follows Another: Experiments in Dance, Art, and Life Through the Lens of Simone Forti and Yvonne Rainer (Punctum, 2025) and The Grass Is Greener When the Sun Is Yellow (The Operating System, 2019), as well as several chapbooks. She edited A Community Writing Itself: Conversations with Vanguard Writers of the Bay Area (Dalkey Archive, 2010). Her collaborative film We Agree on the Sun has received numerous accolades including Best Experimental Short, Berlin Independent Film Festival. A new collaborative film, Lizard Song, has screened at the San Francisco Dance Film Festival, the Art of Brooklyn Film Festival, and Espaço Cultural das Mercês in Lisbon. She has received the Leo Litwak Fiction Award, a Creative Capacity Innovation Grant, a San Francisco Education Fund Grant, and residencies at This Will Take Time, Hambidge, New York Mills, Vermont Studio Center, Soul Mountain, and Ragdale, as well as a two-year term as Affiliate Artist at Headlands Center for the Arts. From 2012 to 2023, she served as a juror for the California Book Awards.
More at sarahrosenthal.net
Kim Shuck is a silly protein. Shuck also writes poetry, essays, and many very short autobiographies. She holds an MFA in Fine Arts/Textiles from San Francisco State University and has shown work on four continents. Kim is solo author of ten books and has edited, co-edited, assisted in editing, acted as coffee monkey for or wandered through the editing of a further ten. Shuck served as the 7th Poet Laureate of San Francisco. Kim maintains a vibrant visual and written art career. Shuck's latest books are This Wandering State vol. 1, one of the editing projects, and Noodle, Rant, Tangent, a collection of essays.
Rebekah Wolman's poems have won a few awards and appeared in a variety of on-line and print journals and anthologies. A retired educator based in San Francisco, California, on unceded ancestral Ramaytush Ohlone land, she reads poetry for the on-line journal Psaltery and Lyre. Her chapbook, What the Hollow Held, is No. 6 in the A.V. Christie Series from Seven Kitchens Press.
Instagram: @rgordonw56