Poetry Challenge: Dissecting Dithyrambics
Exhibitions & Events
In addition to being an artist, Markus Lüpertz was a poet. Throughout the exhibition, share your Lüpertz-inspired poems with us to win prizes. Every other week, we’ll issue a new poetry challenge based on images or themes in the exhibition for fresh inspiration and chances to win.
THIS WEEK’S CHALLENGE: Create a haiku inspired by the colors and shapes in Markus Lüpertz’s Baumstamm Abwaerts Dithyrambisch (Tree Trunk Down—Dithyrambic). A traditional haiku is a three-line poem with seventeen syllables, written in a 5/7/5 syllable count.
THIS WEEK’S PRIZE: Four anytime tickets to The Phillips Collection
TO ENTER: Leave your poem in the comments here, or share on social media with #LupertzPoem. We’ll select winners on Friday, August 18.
**UPDATE: The winning poem was submitted by Katherine Rutsala:
So quartered and drawn
the green golden tree trunk flies.
The forgiving sky.
