I have two poems in the new issue of The Light Ekphrastic! This online journal pairs a writer and visual artist together to create work in response to each other, which is such a fun and brilliant idea for a journal.

I created “How I Measure Your Body” in response to Carl Scharwath’s photograph “Spatio.” His photo prompted me to write about the different uses of the word “body,” something I’d been wanting to do in my project to/about my Granny, and his photo also gave me the four-box form for my poem. Then Carl sent a photo of Prague in response to “One Way to Use a Deck of Cards,” my poem about a honeymoon and marriage that does indeed mention photos from Prague.

Thanks to editor Jenny O’Grady, artist Carl Scharwath, and poetry champion Trish Hopkinson for introducing me to this journal.