Art-inspired collection at center of ‘party’
Poets from throughout Ohio have contributed to a new collection inspired by art in the state.
In “A Rustling and Waking Within,” the inspirations include paintings, sculptures and even classical music.
The book is broken down by region, with the central Ohio artworks including Alexej Jawlensky’s “Schokko With Red Hat” and Pablo Picasso’s “Female Nude (I Love Eva),” both at the Columbus Museum of Art.
Those poems were written, respectively, by Steve Abbott, a distinguished professor emeritus at Columbus State Community College, and Jennifer Hambrick, midday host for WOSU (101.1 FM) and a music reviewer for The Dispatch.
Each of the poems is “ekphrastic,” or a dramatic description, real or imagined. In the book’s preface, editor and contributor Sharon Fish Mooney explained it as “one creative and created work responding to another creative and created work.”
The Ohio Poetry Association organized the collection and is publishing it.
central Ohio release party will take place from 2 to 5 p.m. Saturday t Wexner Center for the Arts, 1871 N. High St. Poets who will read their work include Hambrick, Abbott and Rikki Santer, a high-school teacher in Columbus.
The event is free and open to the public.
“A Rustling and Waking Within” (OPA Press, 139 pages, $15), edited by Sharon Fish Mooney