I've posted "A Girl Can Dream", a poem that first appeared as part of the Image-ine series at TweetSpeakPoetry. The poem is inspired by Nicola Slattery's painting "Red Shoes".

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2013/05/a-girl-can-dream-poem.html

Today's post is another in an occasional series presenting something you might not know about poets or poetry.

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2013/05/monday-muse-asks-did-you-know.html

The Thought for the Day is a quote by painter Carmen Herrera.

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2013/03/thought-for-day_24.html

My poem "A Ladder Our Boat", inspired by Holly Friesen's painting "Warrior Canoe", appears today for Image-ine at TweetSpeakPoetry, the T.S. Poetry blog:

http://www.tweetspeakpoetry.com/2013/03/15/image-ine-warrior-canoe-by-holly-friesen/

Today begins the first of a series of posts in which I share by conversations by e-mail with artist Walt Pascoe:

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2013/03/conversation-with-artist-walt-pascoe.html

Today's post profiles expressionist painter and master printmaker James Lavadour, who co-founded the nonprofit Crow's Shadow Institute of the Arts.

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2013/02/james-lavadour-turner-of-northwest.html

Posted 'What Girls in a Poppy Field Know', inspired by Canadian painter Edmund Montague Morris's painting 'Girls in a Poppy Field', and dedicated to my father and all veterans whose memory we honor:

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2012/11/what-girls-in-poppy-field-know-poem.html

Authors on Artists: Amy King on Leonor Fini, Leonora Carrington, and Frida Kahlo

Paint Is the Abyss’ Law, Living the Accent: Marginalia on Absorption

Paint Is the Secretion of Scene on Leonor Fini’s Set    

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I've posted a new poem for fall,"In Season", inspired by and dedicated to painter Holly Friesen.

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2012/10/in-season-poem.html

In today's post, Monday Muse looks at British poets' contributions for "Metamorphosis: Poems Inspired by Titian", commissioned for a National Gallery London exhibition of Titian's works and published this past June by National Gallery Co.

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2012/09/monday-muse-poets-respond-to-titian.html

October is Roctober with Litquake! We have readings galore for you this month!

FIRST UP, join us for our regularly scheduled event at Studio 333 in Sausalito, October 11. 7pm. This very special show features writers from the audience who entered their names in the drawings over the months. 333 Caledonia Street, Sausalito, 7-9pm. $5. 

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I've posted a brief feature on painter Reinoud van Vught and a link to a talk he gave about his creative process and looking at, thinking about, and understanding art.

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2012/08/painter-reinoud-van-vught.html

Today's quote is by painter Agnes Martin:

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2012/07/thought-for-day_08.html

Today's poem, "The Innocence of Trees", is inspired by commentary about the painter Agnes Martin and her grids. The title is taken from a quote by Martin of how she came to create her grid paintings.

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2012/06/innocence-of-trees-poem.html

A quote of the late artist Dorothea Tanning is Sunday's Thought for the Day.

I've included a video of a selection of Tanning's artwork.

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2012/05/thought-for-day.html

I've posted a new poem, "Diagnosis", for my friend and a brilliant artist Walt Pascoe.

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2012/03/diagnosis-poem.html

For those who might have missed the news, the Clyfford Still Museum opened in Denver, Colorado, November 18. I've posted a video preview of the museum and an excerpt from a new one-hour documentary about the abstract artist.

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2011/11/clyfford-still-gets-his-own-museum.html

A brief feature on the nature- and folk-inspired art of Rogene Manas is posted.

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2011/07/artist-rogene-manas.html

Perhaps you've heard of the "mini Monet"? He's not yet nine and his exhibitions sell out. He's painter Kieron Williamson and today's Wednesday Wonder.

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2011/05/wednesday-wonder-kieron-williamson.html