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Unread 07-26-2022, 09:46 AM
Martin Elster Martin Elster is offline
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Default Ekphrastic Best of the Net Nominations

I'm pleased to announce that The Ekphrastic Review nominated my poem, "One Summer Day," for Best of the Net.

https://www.ekphrastic.net/ekphrasti...23-nominations

Our Best of the Net nominations this year (for works from July 1, 2021, through June 30, 2022):

Poetry

black, by Saad Ali
https://www.ekphrastic.net/ekphrastic/black-by-saad-ali

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One Summer Day, by Martin Elster
https://www.ekphrastic.net/ekphrasti...-martin-elster

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Love It or List It, by Keith Hoerner
https://www.ekphrastic.net/ekphrasti...n-van-meegeren

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Magritte’s Apple Explains It All, by Joan Leotta
https://www.ekphrastic.net/ekphrasti...by-joan-leotta

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Who Am I? by Alarie Tennille
https://www.ekphrastic.net/ekphrasti...jo-of-itu-meko


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Andrew Wyeth’s Public Sale, by Jo Taylor
https://www.ekphrastic.net/ekphrasti...3-by-jo-taylor

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Unread 07-26-2022, 01:37 PM
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Congratulations, Martin!

Cheers,
John
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Unread 07-26-2022, 02:21 PM
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Beautiful poem, Martin, which I hadn't seen before. Congratulations!

Susan
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Unread 07-26-2022, 02:56 PM
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Lovely, and Congratulations. I like the way you link music and visuals here, in particular the 'notes' as 'dappled fish' - that's beautiful and clever.

Sarah-Jane
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Thanks, John, Susan, and Sarah-Jane.

Sarah-Jane - Thanks for mentioning the notes as dappled fish.
I think you call that synesthesia (or British spelling: synaesthesia).
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