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earthlingThe Ekphrastic Writer Creating Art-Influenced Poetry, Fiction and NonfictionA common definition of ekphrasis is descriptive writing influenced by the visual arts. Beyond the written word, however, responding to art can engender self-reflection, creativity, and help writers to build characters, plot, and setting. <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nonfiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nonfiction</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ekphrasis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ekphrasis</a>

haleyA late-night <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poem</a> for you, resurrected from an old journal and some deep dark memories. "Inverted, comfortable nightmare, I know you best through absence..."<a href="https://haleycampbell.net/creative-writing/poetry/ghost/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://haleycampbell.net/creative-writing/poetry/ghost/</a><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/amWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#amWriting</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poetry</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ekphrasis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ekphrasis</a>

Brad HostetlerOn December 23 (or 24) 562, <a href="https://historians.social/tags/HagiaSophia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HagiaSophia</a> is re-dedicated after the dome's reconstruction, and Paul the Silentiary composes an <a href="https://historians.social/tags/ekphrasis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ekphrasis</a> in 1029 verses in iambic trimeter and dactylic hexameter praising the beauties of the building. <a href="https://historians.social/tags/Byzantine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Byzantine</a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/ArtHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ArtHistory</a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/Rome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Rome</a> <a href="http://projects.mcah.columbia.edu/medieval-architecture/htm/or/ma_or_gloss_essay_paul.htm" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">http://projects.mcah.columbia.edu/medieval-architecture/htm/or/ma_or_gloss_essay_paul.htm</a> 3/3

Brad Hostetler"Yet who, even in the thundering strains of <a href="https://historians.social/tags/Homer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Homer</a>, shall sing the marble meadows gathered upon the mighty walls and spreading pavement of the lofty church? Mining [tools of] toothed steel have cut these from the green flanks of Carystus and have cleft the speckled Phrygian stone, sometimes rosy mixed with white, sometimes gleaming with purple and silver flowers." <a href="https://historians.social/tags/Byzantine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Byzantine</a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/ArtHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ArtHistory</a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/ekphrasis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ekphrasis</a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/HagiaSophia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HagiaSophia</a> 2/3

Brad Hostetler"Upon the carved stone wall curious designs glitter everywhere. These have been produced by the quarries of sea-girt Proconnesus. The joining of the cut marbles resembles the art of painting for you may see the veins of the square and octagonal stones meeting so as to form devices: connected in this way, the stones imitate the glories of painting." <a href="https://historians.social/tags/Byzantine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Byzantine</a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/ArtHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ArtHistory</a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/ekphrasis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ekphrasis</a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/HagiaSophia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HagiaSophia</a> 1/3

Brad HostetlerHello fellow mastodonians. I'm an art historian teaching at a small liberal arts college. My interests include <a href="https://historians.social/tags/ancient" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ancient</a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/greek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#greek</a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/roman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#roman</a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/Byzantine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Byzantine</a> and <a href="https://historians.social/tags/islamic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#islamic</a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#art</a>. My research focuses on text and image relationships in <a href="https://historians.social/tags/byzantium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#byzantium</a>, including <a href="https://historians.social/tags/ekphrasis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ekphrasis</a>, <a href="https://historians.social/tags/epigrams" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#epigrams</a>, and <a href="https://historians.social/tags/epigraphy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#epigraphy</a>. I'm working on a book on middle Byzantine <a href="https://historians.social/tags/relics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#relics</a> and <a href="https://historians.social/tags/reliquaries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#reliquaries</a> through the lens of <a href="https://historians.social/tags/inscriptions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#inscriptions</a>. <a href="https://historians.social/tags/introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#introduction</a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/arthistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#arthistory</a>

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