Ekphrastia Gone Wild: poems inspired by art

Involved in the Los Angeles poetry community since 1990, Rick Lupert created the Poetry Super Highway and hosted the Cobalt Cafe reading series for nearly twenty-one years. He received the Beyond Baroque Distinguished Service Award in 2014 for service to Los Angeles poetry. His collections, many of them travelogues, include The Tokyo-Van Nuys Express, I Am Not Writing a Book of Poems in Hawaii, and God Wrestler: A Poem for Every Torah Portion, all from his imprint Ain't Got No Press. He edited the anthologies A Poet's Haggadah, A Poet's Siddur, and Ekphrastia Gone Wild.