After Francesca Woodman, Untitled, 1980, from the caryatid series Caryatid: a stone carving of a draped female figure, used as a pillar to support the entablature of a Greek or Greek-style building. Here, headless. Blacked out. Cleaved below the knees. Abbreviated, undraped. Shaped […]
Lisa Beech Hartz
Lisa Beech Hartz is the author of the ekphrastic collection, The Goldfish Window (Grayson Books, 2018) and These Kismets (CutBank Books, 2025) a chapbook exploring the life and work of artist Lee Krasner. “Into Ivory” is taken from a working manuscript responding to the life and work of photographer Francesca Woodman (1958-1981). Lisa directs the non-profit Seven Cities Writers Project which brings cost-free writing workshops to underserved communities. She guides poetry workshops in two city jails. Erasure and ekphrastic poems are among her writers’ favorite ways to create new work.