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𝐀𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫... 𝐏𝐨𝐞𝐦𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐫𝐭 @afterpoetry.com · 1d

Art ... or artifice? That's the question posed by @saccharinequeen.bsky.social's new #ekphrastic poem.

'A tour guide holds forth on
body horror, the decayed viscera
of industrial decline, yah de blah,
but no, it‘s worse than that.
It‘s revolting pretentiousness.'

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Read New Ekphrastic Poem 'After viewing the installation I was irritable for hours' by Sadie Maskery exclusively in After... | Poems Inspired By Other Art

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𝐀𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫... 𝐏𝐨𝐞𝐦𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐫𝐭 @afterpoetry.com · 3d

**PUSHCART PRIZE NOMINEES ANNOUNCED**

Please join @afterpoetry.com in congratulating K Roberts, @corinnaboard.bsky.social, Suzi Feay, @arainbowpoet.bsky.social, Matt Cariello and @victoriaspires.bsky.social on their nominations for the next edition of the @pushcartprize.bsky.social.

Promotional poster announcing the six nominees for the 51st edition of The Pushcart Prize, as chosen by the editor of online ekphrastic poetry journal After...

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𝐀𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫... 𝐏𝐨𝐞𝐦𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐫𝐭 @afterpoetry.com · 8d

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Submit to After... | Poems inspired by other art

Send a new, unpublished 'after' or ekphrastic poem to After... throughout October 2025

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𝐀𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫... 𝐏𝐨𝐞𝐦𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐫𝐭 @afterpoetry.com · 8d

The window is open, poets ... come on in.

#opensubmissions #poetry #afterpoetry #ekphrastic #ekphrasis

Promotional poster advertising that submissions to online ekphrastic poetry journal After... will reopen for the whole of October 2025. Gives the web address to visit as afterypoetry.com/submit.

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Duotrope @duotrope.com · 8d

Over 40 publications re-opened today, including @afterpoetry.com @trashcatlit.bsky.social @innerworlds.bsky.social @themerseyreview.bsky.social @artscalling.com @mslexia.bsky.social @ravensquothpress.bsky.social https://duotrope.com...

Re-openings for September 30, 2025

Over 40 publications re-opened today, including @afterpoetry.com @trashcatlit.bsky.social @innerworlds.bsky.social @themerseyreview.bsky.social @artscalling.com @mslexia.bsky.social @ravensquothpress.bsky.social https://duotrope.com/news/publishing/

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𝐀𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫... 𝐏𝐨𝐞𝐦𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐫𝐭 @afterpoetry.com · 9d

It's nearly time again ...

If you've been looking for a home for that 'after' or ekphrastic poem, @afterpoetry.com is the place for you.

Submissions reopen tomorrow – October 1st 2025.

You then have the entire month to send in your poem for a chance to feature in After... in 2026.

Good luck! 🤞🏼

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𝐀𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫... 𝐏𝐨𝐞𝐦𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐫𝐭 @afterpoetry.com · 17d

Sculpture as movement frozen. Dance as light captured. This new #ekphrastic poem by @duntruner.bsky.social has it all.

'I saw her dance again there,
enfolded in negative space, I saw again
that hip-spun pause
of lofted breath.'

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Read New Ekphrastic Poem 'Suspension' by Steve Smart exclusively in After... | Poems Inspired By Other Art

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𝐀𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫... 𝐏𝐨𝐞𝐦𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐫𝐭 @afterpoetry.com · Sep 7

The title of John White's #ekphrastic poem deceives. Is it about office life? Or just life?

'We floated, avatars of the open plan,
by night rehearsing in the snooker dens
each with a cue trained over a pack of Bensons
like an extension of him, holding a heron ... '

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Read New Ekphrastic Poem 'The Inexorable Sadness of Pencils' by John White exclusively in After... | Poems Inspired By Other Art

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𝐀𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫... 𝐏𝐨𝐞𝐦𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐫𝐭 @afterpoetry.com · Aug 23

Art on art about art retelling a myth – @nberlat.bsky.social‬'s #ekphrastic Icarus poem goes deeper.

'Breughel was right
about suffering but
not like Auden says.
Icarus isn’t the man
whose suffering is forgotten.
There he is in the painting.
There he is in the poem.'
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Read New Ekphrastic Poem 'Not Icarus' by Noah Berlatsky exclusively in After... | Poems Inspired By Other Art

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𝐀𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫... 𝐏𝐨𝐞𝐦𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐫𝐭 @afterpoetry.com · Aug 9

In @clattermonger.bsky.social's new #ekphrastic poem, Rodin's father making his son making his father gives cause to write of his own father.

' ... I tried to paint you,
to present you as a single plane,
but find it best to sculpt your head
so I can live among you.'

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Read New Ekphrastic Poem 'Jean-Baptiste Rodin' by Craig Smith exclusively in After... | Poems Inspired By Other Art

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𝐀𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫... 𝐏𝐨𝐞𝐦𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐫𝐭 @afterpoetry.com · Jul 24

Art is more than what we hang, hear or read. As Ennis Rook Bashe shows us in this new #ekphrastic poem, it can also be what we play.

'Tachycardia: moth-wing heartbeat, lantern-golden eyes.
I think I could break him the way fishhooks wouldn’t ... '

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Read New Ekphrastic Poem 'his name is Winter and the haunted house won’t let him leave and' by Ennis Rook Bashe exclusively in After... | Poems Inspired By Other Art

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𝐀𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫... 𝐏𝐨𝐞𝐦𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐫𝐭 @afterpoetry.com · Jul 10

There's a warning to us all in Matt Cariello's #ekphrastic reimagining of 'Beauty and the Beast': beware of what you want ...

' ... But see –

she trembles that the beast is gone when all we ever
wanted was a corridor lit with torches forever.'

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Read New Ekphrastic Poem 'Beauty and the Beast' by Matt Cariello exclusively in After... | Poems Inspired By Other Art

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𝐀𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫... 𝐏𝐨𝐞𝐦𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐫𝐭 @afterpoetry.com · Jun 25

Roger Hare's new #ekphrastic poem 'Jerusalem Syndrome' cleverly fuses art with religious psychosis.

'... you will mock
your own tears, the removal of sky
from above your head, the emptying
of all you thought required to be filled ...'
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Read New Ekphrastic Poem 'Jerusalem Syndrome' by Roger Hare exclusively in After... | Poems Inspired By Other Art

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𝐀𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫... 𝐏𝐨𝐞𝐦𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐫𝐭 @afterpoetry.com · Jun 11

A literal and figurative flight of fancy up next on @afterpoetry.com, with @helenlaycock.bsky.social's #ekphrastic poem 'Grand-Mère en Ciel'.

'I pull her in my wake,
barefoot, threshing flames of barley,
and she wings my hair with a fan of lavender,
calming me ... '

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Read New Ekphrastic Poem 'Grand-Mère en Ciel' by Helen Laycock exclusively in After... | Poems Inspired By Other Art

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𝐀𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫... 𝐏𝐨𝐞𝐦𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐫𝐭 @afterpoetry.com · May 27

New #ekphrastic poem from Patrick Wright on @afterpoetry.com takes us into the art of darkness.

' ... a town like this is void
though one pulse of a deer’s heart
makes it a plenum. A full spectrum will reveal
itself only when you’ve pledged to cease
hurting.'

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Read New Ekphrastic Poem 'Robert Rauschenberg’s 𝑈𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑙𝑒𝑑' by Patrick Wright exclusively in After... | Poems Inspired By Other Art

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𝐀𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫... 𝐏𝐨𝐞𝐦𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐫𝐭 @afterpoetry.com · May 26

And did you know you can make poems (and their inspirations) a lot easier to read just by tilting your device into landscape?

Sure, there's a bit more scrolling involved – but the point size of the text becomes instantly bigger!

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𝐀𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫... 𝐏𝐨𝐞𝐦𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐫𝐭 @afterpoetry.com · May 26

With a new #ekphrastic poem a little over 24 hours away on @afterpoetry.com – and a new font to improve readability – here are two tutorials to help you get the best from the journal when enjoying it on a mobile device.

First, did you know you can tap on the moons to go through poems in date order?

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𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕜 𝔸𝕟𝕥𝕠𝕟𝕪 𝕆𝕨𝕖𝕟 @markantonyowen.com · May 21

With my apologies in advance to readers and contributors alike, poems on @afterpoetry.com are going to look less than their best for a few days (possibly weeks) while I go through the process of redesigning the site to accommodate a new font. Expect messiness – but know it won't be around for long.

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𝐀𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫... 𝐏𝐨𝐞𝐦𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐫𝐭 @afterpoetry.com · May 12

There's a face in @amantineb.bsky.social's #ekphrastic poem 'La Gioconda' which, like the Mona Lisa's, you can't take your eyes off.

' ... In our incomplete
house of tongues, from such sacred clay
and embalmed scars, your beauty's skinned
into an ancient prayer ... '
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Read New Ekphrastic Poem 'La Gioconda' by Amantine Brodeur exclusively in After... | Poems Inspired By Other Art

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𝐀𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫... 𝐏𝐨𝐞𝐦𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐫𝐭 @afterpoetry.com · Apr 27

Do not pass up the opportunity to read tonight's thought-provoking new #ekphrastic poem by @philvernon.bsky.social.

'No pasarán: they shall not pass –
shall not by passing take away
the hope – the slender chance.'

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Read New Ekphrastic Poem '¡No pasarán!' by Phil Vernon exclusively in After... | Poems Inspired By Other Art

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𝐀𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫... 𝐏𝐨𝐞𝐦𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐫𝐭 @afterpoetry.com · Apr 13

Quite special, isn't it?

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𝐀𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫... 𝐏𝐨𝐞𝐦𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐫𝐭 @afterpoetry.com · Apr 13

Extraordinary #ekphrastic poem up now on @afterpoetry.com, as Suzi Feay writes of bone made ceramic.

' ... Glass is a fluid that will flow
Slower than marrow, DNA or any
Beam in your house of meat.'

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Read New Ekphrastic Poem 'Glass Bone' by Suzi Feay exclusively in After... | Poems Inspired By Other Art

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𝐀𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫... 𝐏𝐨𝐞𝐦𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐫𝐭 @afterpoetry.com · Mar 29

Today's #ekphrastic poem – 'Prophets', by Max Wallis – draws on Ginsberg's 'Howl'.

'All these dead and not-so-dead befores!
All this that stood and fell and despite it all:
saw their cities extend into the fever pit of men.
And in doing so Hell became.'
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Read New Ekphrastic Poem 'Prophets' by Max Wallis exclusively in After... | Poems Inspired By Other Art

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𝐀𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫... 𝐏𝐨𝐞𝐦𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐫𝐭 @afterpoetry.com · Mar 29

Remembering the warm-hearted, talented and quietly spoken poet @ivordaniel.bsky.social, who passed away recently, and much too soon.

With love and deepest sympathy to Ivor's family and friends. He will be missed, dearly.

afterpoetry.com/poem/may-30-2022-ivor-daniel

Read New Ekphrastic Poem 'At the Paula Rego' by Ivor Daniel exclusively in After... | Poems Inspired By Other Art

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𝐀𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫... 𝐏𝐨𝐞𝐦𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐫𝐭 @afterpoetry.com · Mar 14

This evening's #ekphrastic poem on @afterpoetry.com is ideal for an eclipsed 'blood' moon. Read Phillipa Trelford's serendipitously titled 'Selene'.

'Sea and sky merge to azurite, her face pearlescent in a night-lined box.
She welcomes glimmering, the evening star.'

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Read New Ekphrastic Poem 'Selene' by Phillipa Trelford exclusively in After... | Poems Inspired By Other Art

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