Bright Inhabited Lives turned one year old this week!

To celebrate the launch of this collection, I’m reading a few of the poems in its pages for you, accompanied by the artwork that inspired them. Take a listen to one of the poems that sparked the collection below.

The full title of the painting is Blind Woman Reading Braille Volume. You can read more about the artist of this work, Ejnar Nielsen, here. This poem was originally published by The Ekphrastic Review.

Image credit: Samuel P. Hayes Research Library, Perkins School for the Blind, Watertown, MA.