Aliki barnstone poems for funerals
The Blue HouseMarc Chagall, "The Poet Reclining"In 2003, after seeing Chagall exhibit at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, I began writing a sequence of ekphrastic poems,nbsp;"Eva's Voice,"nbsp;in the voice of an imaginary poet, Eva Victoria Perera,nbsp;nbsp;a Sephardic Jew from Thessaloniki, who survives the Holocaust. nbsp;I was awarded a sabbatical from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (where I taught at the time) andnbsp;a Senior Fulbrightnbsp;Scholarshipnbsp;for my project.