Phantastic Ekphrastic unfolds as a wandering conversation. Creative inspiration is not treated as a solitary spark but as shared experience. Ten poets and ten visual artists were invited to participate in this exchange. Each was asked to begin not with a blank page, but with the results of another’s creative exploration. This process is often described as ekphrastic: a term used when one artwork responds to another, for example when a poem is written in response to a visual piece. Here, this idea was expanded into two-way dialogues.

Participating artists and poets in Phantastic Ekphrastic are: Elisha Almeida, Aaron Brenner, Leonard Butt, Kristina Campbell, Don Cunningham, Corwin Fox, Ian Fry, Mary Gorman, Steve Horel, Martha Jablonski-Jones, Kim June Johnson, Dan Kirk, Diana Kolpak, Scott Lawrance, Kelly Madden, Corina Menz, Ivy Miller, Natalie Nickerson, Clive Powsey and Steven J. Thompson.