John Isbell in The Ekphrastic Review
 

With a poem he workshopped here recently, "The Ram God Khnum":

http://www.ekphrastic.net/ekphrastic...aiborne-isbell

Anyone who enjoys sonnets may also enjoy this one by Barbara Lydecker Crane:

http://www.ekphrastic.net/ekphrastic...lydecker-crane

Susan

Nice ones, John and Barbara!

I am excited about John's poem (and excited that his middle name is "Claiborne")!

"the plunder of his face" in Barbara's Henry VIII sonnet is wonderful. But how can a poem on a bloated, autocratic, short-fingered vulgarian from the 16th century be relevant today?