Alexander, Charles. Near or Random Acts, Singing Horse, 2004
From Charles:
In its second part, several pages of work written while looking at Chagall's painting "I and the Village." I was projecting the work for students, who were writing, and I began writing, too. There is also, in that book, one part that extracts lines from what the students wrote in response to the painting.
Here's a link to a piece I made in response to work by visual artist Cynthia Miller, to whom I am married. The particular work was an outdoor public installation. Later my piece with an illustration by Cynthia was published in a "screen fold" series by Light & Dust. The web site explains more. Just the text of the piece appears in my book, Hopeful Buildings.
http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/alexander/aviary.html
Ashbery, John. Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror.
Auden, W. H. “Musee des Beaux Arts.”
From Michael Snider.
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge and Kiki Smith's “Endocrinology”
From Bruna Mori
Carper, Thomas. “Paint, Her Portrait.”
From Michael Snider.
Davis, Dick. “Rembrandt's Return of the Prodigal Son, On a Painting by Guardi, On an Etching by J. S. Cotman”
From Michael Snider
Dolin, Sharon. Serious Pink.
From Burt Kimmelman.
Review by Eillen Tabios: http://www.jacketmagazine.com/23/tabi-dolin.html
Hernandez, Jose in collaboration with Luis Bunuel, in the 10th issue of 3rd Bed.
Andrea Baker, Poetry Editor, 3rd Bed, http://www.3rdbed.com
Justice, Donald. “On a Picture by Burchfield, On a Painting by Patient B of the Independence State Hospital for the Insane.”
From Michael Snider
Kimmelman, Burt, a collaboration with the painter Fred Caruso, "The Pond at Cape May Point."
Mezey, Robert. “To a Likeness of a Captain in Cromwell's Army.”
From Michael Snider
Nemerov, Howard. “Breughel: The Triumph of Time”
From Michael Snider
Perlman, John. Self Portrait. Elizabeth Press, 1978.
From John: Yes, [William Carlos Williams’] example is initiatory : everything / is a picture // to the employing eye / that feeds restlessly to / find peace.
Schnackenberg, Gjertrud: “The Self-Portrait of Ivan Generalic”
From Michael Snider
Stallings, A. E. “On Viewing an Exhibition of Paintings--The Treasures of Venice”
Tabios, Eileen. Behind the Blue Canvas
Tabios, Eileen. My Romance
Tabios, Eileen. Reproductions of the Empty Flagpole
Wald, Diane. Improvisations on Titles of Works by Jean Dubuffet, Mudlark online
http://www.unf.edu/mudlark/mudlark10/contents.html
From the author: The “chapbook” was written over two days about five years ago, but I wrote for hours each day taking breaks in between sessions. It was a funny time. My husband and I were more or less trapped in small cottage in Rhode Island during two insanely rainy/stormy days. There was so much water we’d have to wade out to the car and the inlet outside the cottage came up almost to its door. There were also some really large, really pissed-off swans in the yard----so, all in all, it seemed a great time to stay inside and write. I had a laptop and two huge Dubuffet books (I’d seen an exhibit in DC just before and was enchanted with his work) with me from the library, so, yes, I did look at the paintings too, although the consistently wild nature of the titles was what first inspired me. It was terrific fun to write.”
Wheeler, Susan. “The Debtor in the Convex Mirror,” a response to John Ashbery’s Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror and a painting by Quentin Massys, c. 1514.
http://bostonreview.net/BR28.5/wheeler.html
Wilbur, Richard. “Wyeth's Milk Cans, Museum Piece.”
From Michael Snider.