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2009 Ekphrasis Poetry Contest Winners

2009 Winners


Grand Prize: Alexa Van Vliet, "Ferdinand's Aside" (Klimt's Adele Bloch Bauer)

Prize Winner:
Devin Germain, "Ear" (Van Gogh's Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear)

Prize Winner: Alexandra Allen, "Barricade: A Treatment for Hysteria in the Streets of Paris" 
                        (Christo and Jean-Claude's Wall of Oil Barrels, Iron Curtain, Rue Visconti, Paris 1962)

Prize Winner: Chelsea Grimmer, "In a Film Last Night" (Rivers and Tides, a film about Andy Goldsworthy) 


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