MIDDLEBURY — Few words in the English language look and feel as diametrically opposed to their definitions as ekphrasis. It derives from Greek and sounds very much as if it belongs among the terminology that that language has shaped for the medical profession. What ekphrasis describes, however, is a vivid, often dramatic, verbal description of a work of art. Poets love this stuff. So do artists. Which is why Theresa Harris, director of Middlebury’s Edgewater Galleries, has brought together poets and visual … (read more)
