Call for High School Student Poetry
The Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets, organizer of an annual student poetry contest, partners with the Woodson Art Museum, inviting high school students to participate in a statewide ekphrastic poetry competition. Students will write and submit poems inspired by artwork images from the Woodson Art Museum’s collection; see artwork images below. An installation of the winning poems and collection artworks will follow in April during National Poetry Month and the Museum will hold a reception for the winning poets, their families, and educators on April 12, at 1:00 pm.

For additional information and entry guidelines, check the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets student contest webpage.

See winning poem selections from the 2023-2024 contest here.

Theodore Robinson, Child with Geese, 1886, oil on canvas, Museum purchase with funds provided by the John and Alice Forester Charitable Trust

David F. Driesbach, And A Blue Footed Boobie (9/20), 2000, engraving on Rives BFK paper, gift of Elizabeth Eisen

David Kroll, Landscape (Rose Vase), 2019, oil on canvas on board, Museum purchase with Tribute Funds