Potential Titles: Art/Craft [category]

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Potential Titles: Art/Craft: Tools and Materials [category].


Act.

Aesthetic:
Make emptiness an acquired aesthetic - Stephanie Heit "Dear Murderer"

Sent round his cards for aesthetics and tea - Henry S. Leigh "The Compact"

Allegory:
allegory writing me into a fold of stillness - Tajudeen Muadh "In a Goverment Class, I Discuss My Home"

Anthology:
An anthology of sunsets layered upon each other - R.B. Lemberg "The Rotten Leaf Cantata"

Arabesque:
The sad wind spinning arabesques - John Gould Fletcher "Irradiations"

Rose and gold arabesqued with the song of birds - Amy Lowell "Azure and Gold"

Whose twisted arabesques suggest no single form - Ann K. Schwader "The Night of Her Return"

Flashing arabesques against the sun - George Soule "Winter's Pride"

Art.

Author:
Author of any wizardry his lusts demanded - Mike Allen "Picasso's Rapture"

The Author of his own Disgrace - Lady Helena Carnegie and Mrs Arthur Jacob "Inevitable Retribution"

Erecting trophies to Jove the author of our conquest - Euripedes "The Children of Hercules" transl. by Michael Wodhull

Accursed authors of this mischief - Euripedes "Rhesus" transl. by Michael Wodhull

Perdition seize the author of this bloody deed - Euripedes "Rhesus" transl. by Michael Wodhull

The author of time's bewildering light - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 12"

Ballet.

Baroque:
With lovely baroque convolutions of thought - Lee Ann Brown "Sustain Petal"

Wallowing in an orgy of Baroque facades and Victorian gingerbread - Samantha Pious "Interior Castle" [Strange Horizons 3 March 2025]

Book.

Bricolage:
a bricolage of place & memory - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "Blueprint For An African American Space Station"

Broadcast:
Each broadcast and jingle tricking me - Nickole Brown "Prayer to be Still and Know"

Brutalist:
What's visible from inside a Brutalist building - Ari Banias "Curriculum"

Fraudulent windows in a Brutalist structure - Maureen N. McLane "They Were Not Kidding in the Fourteenth Century"

Cabaret:
Cabarets and songs, and deadening wine - Alice Dunbar-Nelson "Sonnet [I had no thought of violets of late]" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Elephants in cabaret dresses reddish & cadmium blue - Juan Felipe Herrera "Saturday Night at the Buddhist Cinema"

Death becomes an empty cabaret - Langston Hughes "Sport"

Calligraphy.

Carpentry:
Clever carpenters who follow the times - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Encountering Sorrow" transl. by Burton Watson

And down with it the carpenter unto the beasts below - "The Dwarf and the Oak Tree: A Vision of 1850" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]

Death too is a carpenter - Mary Oliver "Pilot Snake"

Cartoon:
The cartoon version of movement - Hoa Nguyen "Overseas Vietnamese"

Carve.

Caryatid:
Like vast Caryatids upholding the age - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto II"

Celadon:
Warn each other in teal or celadon - Brenda Hillman "Species Prepare to Exist After Money"

lit by translucent jade and celadon lamps - Raina J. León "making life on a palette"

Ceramic:
A tote bag full of ceramic souvenirs - Helene Achanzar "The only poem I can write"

Ceramic tributes to the moon - Ira Goga "The Kitchen, Indexed"

Found my body in ceramic pieces - jessica Care moore "She Was"

Could break their ceramic silence - Caroline Harper New "Patients Regain Song Before Speech"

Charcoal.

Chiaroscuro:
Watch the chiaroscuro movie of my mind - Mary Jo Bang "Our Evening Is Over Us"

A war trots out of your chiaroscuro head - Carolina Ebeid "Wearing a Mask, Speaking into the Camera"

Choreography:
A minimal choreography of absence - Monica de la Torre "Pause the Document"

Precarious choreography of bicycles - Safia Elhillo "Amsterdam"

How much choreographed relief a kingdom tolerates - K. Iver "Sleeping Beauty"

Cinema.

Collage:
Time affords us chaos and collage - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hokkolen g"

A festival of collaged laughter - Major Jackson "Spain"

A collage of lost evenings - Maggie Nelson "For Lily on Her 25th Birthday"

Comedy.

Comics:
Selling stolen comics for eight bucks and change - Sophie Fink "The Dogs Don't Forgive Us"

Commedia:
Pasteboard riddles and commedia deadpan - Sonya Taaffe "Muse"

Concrete Poetry:
Sketch a Jackson Pollock splatter of concrete poetry - Regie Cabico "A Carpapalooza: An American Anthem"

Contre-Dance:
Maddened nations at their contre-dance - Thomas Aird "The Old Soldier" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCXXXVI, v.LXXI, Feb. 1852]

Craft.

Create/Creation.

Critic/Critique.

Cubism:
A giant cubist mosaic of their prophet - Michelle Wirth "Campus"

Curate:
curated with loving precision - Davian Aw "Those Who Tell the Stories"

Some curated notion of now - Mary Jo Bang "The Actual Occurences"

Dadaism:
Rebrand & rewrite their Dadaist daydreams - Andre F. Peltier "The Love Theme from Switchblade Sisters"

Dance.

Depression Glass:
Tulips and pink depression glass - Megan Fernandes "Amsterdam"

Design.

Doodle:
Idle doodles and arbitrary scratches - Gregory Orr "Eden and After: To Write"

Drama.

Draw/Drew.

Elegy.

Emboss.

Embroider.

Engrave.

Entertain.

Epic.

Essay.

Etch.

Existentialism:
Existentialism is imposed upon me - Jie Cohen "Venus Limbs"

Expressionism:
A flowing expressionist relief of mythic proportions - Bruce Boston & Robert Frazier "A Compass for the Mutant Rain Forest"

Potential Titles: Fabric/Fiber - Ways to Work with Them [category].

Fairy Tale.

Farce:
Kaleidoscopic hints, to be worked up in farce or tragedy - Thomas Bailey Aldrich (uncredited) "An Idyl" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.39, Jan. 1861]

Figurine:
Museum of monkey figurines and butterflies - J. Mae Barizo "Diorama"

Film/Filmy.

Fresco:
In painted frescoes shown - Charles Baudelaire "The Evil Monk" transl. not credited

A spackled fresco of sky - Carolyn Forche "Blue Hour"

Give subtle grace to frescoed ceilings - Bree Wernicke "A Tour of the Blue Palace"

Frescos flake away as sleet holds us in its teeth - Dean Young "Bronzed" [Poetry April 2005]

Frieze:
The frozen music of a frieze - Maurice Baring "Phedre"

Ganymede fleeing on a temple frieze - Dan Chiasson "Tackle Football"

Drenched stars' ancient frieze - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Tuccenen N"

Crosshatched with a lacquer frieze of ink - Sonya Taaffe "The Gambler"

Genre:
That choosing genres is a luxury - K. Iver "Short Film Starring My Beloved's Red Bronco"

Ghostwrite:
Ghostwriting the low-tide mark - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"

Graffiti.

Haiku:
As sharp and as multilayered as Basho's haiku - Keith Taylor "What's Needed Now"

Hologram/Holographic:
holographic hagiographies remember our heroes - Davian Aw "Those Who Tell the Stories"

Holographic moth wings that shine like chalk drawings - Wren Douglas "Fursonas Are Not Enough, I Need to Be a Moss-Coated Mech"

Transmute into an hologram of grace - Joshua Effiong "3D Presentation of a Body Undergoing Catharsis in a Transterrestrial Habitat"

Her eyes are the doors to a holographic universe - Tiffany Higgins "Medusa on Sansom and Pine" [Poetry Nov. 2013]

Illustrate:
To illustrate the rain - Billy Collins "A History of Weather"

Inscribe.

Journalism:
Telling journalists they are looking into it - Poupeh Missaghi "Symptoms that May Be Signs of Some Things"

Lapidary:
The valley's light lapidary in the canyon creases - Chris Dombrowski "Vespers Beginning as Sheep Tallow in the Hands of a Priest"

This lapidary of broken things - Richard Scott "Peridot"

Limn:
Lightning limned into a hellish door - C. Edgar Bolen "Lycanthropus"

Limned on the mind's retina - E.O.H. "Dreams" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Limned in his blood across your clearing skies - T.M. Kettle "Parnell"

Pencils of fire limn visions of soul-large desire - T.M. Kettle "Sowing (Written in 1899)"

Literary:
Literary values before the days of YouTube - Elaine Equi "Cats, Now and Forever"

Literature:
The rage for apocalyptic literature - John Kinsella "Reptile in Roof Space"

Either chemistry or literature, a catalyst or a metaphor - Brandon O'Brien "lagahoo culture (Part II)"

Mason/Masonry.

Masterpiece:
Confusion now hath made his masterpiece - Shakespeare "Macbeth"

Played the makings of a masterpiece off-key - Emily Ruth Verona "A Shiva"

Media:
Mix media on slow water - Janet Kauffman "Keratella Offshore"

A commodifying media and its monopolizing imagination - upfromsumdirt [aka Ron Davis] "The Hero with the African Face"

Melodrama:
Discover melodrama in the windows - Kay Gabriel "Like, Comma, Like"

Mime:
And builds a stage to mime its listless tragedy - Robin Flower "La Vie Cerebrale"

November sky mimes heaven - Claire Millikin "Elegy for Sage Smith"

To mime with sorrow for a mask - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 1: The Magdalene"

Montage:
As dusky birds brushed blues into a montage - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Whistle"

Morris Dance:
A walk across a montage of darkness - Semaj Brown "Remember Re mem ber ing"

A morrice chime of jostled bells - Don Marquis "Chant of the Changing Hours"

Mosaic.

Motown:
The motown long plays for the comeback of Osiris - Ishmael Reed "I Am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra"

Movie.

Mummery:
Dead mummers of forgotten fantasies - Geoffrey Dearmer "Reality"

This revel of quick-cued mumming - Thomas Hardy "According to the Mighty Working"

Mural:
Gems of the East her mural crown adorn - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"

The penciled-in figure on the painted-over mural of time - Vijay Seshadri "The Descent of Man"

Musical Instruments [category].

Musical Tools and Terms [category].

Musical Works [category].

Narrative.

Neoclassical:
Lit the air around those neoclassic nights - Yusef Komunyakaa "Daytime Begins with a Line by Anna Akhmatova"

Newsreel:
Newsreels captured the death of a star - Caitriona O'Reilly "The Airship Era"

Novel:
You're Iowa in the novel about Chicago - Jaswinder Bolina "Portrait of the Minor Character"

Child thieves out of a Dickens novel - Theodora Goss "Goldilocks and the Bear"

Divert yourself with 19th century Russian novels - Dean Young "So the Grasses Grow" [Poetry April 2005]

Oratory:
Had oratory for its own defence - Aldous Huxley "Formal Verses II: [Ah, those were days of silent happiness!]"

Each ridge practicing an oration of scale and crest - Major Jackson "Double View of the Adirondacks as Reflected Over Lake Champlain from Waterfront Park"

Smoke screens of oratory - Kim Unsong "Expand Territory"

Of frangipani and dark oratory roses - Claire Millikin "Superhero Costume, Attic, Tifton, Georgia"

Origami.

Paint.

Pantomime:
Some ethereal pantomime - John W. Forney "Time's Changes"

Mere pantomimes of rites they'd practiced - Harry Martinson "Aniara 92" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

A small part of the pantomime - Wallace Stevens "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird"

Playing a pantomime to spectres in the stalls - Iris Tree "[I think myself the fool of tragedy]"

Papier-Mache:
The next house made of papier-mache - Anthony Butts "The Landscape for Growth"

A hilltop made of papier mache - Neil Gaiman "House"

Sleep's faded papier-mache - Wallace Stevens "Not Ideas About the Thing but the Thing Itself"

A museum erected out of paper-mache - Brad Walrond "Calculus I, II, III"

Parody:
Make a parody of paradise - Russell W. Davenport "Five Sonnets III"

Patchwork.

Pentameter:
Lost and missed in minor-key pentameter - Debra Allbery "Sidereal"

Pentimento:
The geometric outline a pentimento - Mary Jo Bang "Origin of the Impulse to Speak"

Perform.

Photo/Photograph.

Pirouette.

Play.

Podcast:
In podcast and electronic ink - Fady Joudah "[...]"

Poetry/Poem.

Polaroid:
Faded polaroids stacked in a keepsake box - Tylor James "I Grew Up in a Haunted House"

Police Procedural:
Gives birth to another police procedural - Peter Twal "This Sunday in Ordinary Time"

Polychrome:
Large stars with polychrome needles - Amy Lowell "Vintage"

Porcelain.

Portrait.

Post-Modernist:
Falling up the vertebrae of post-modernist architecture - Semaj Brown "Almost Majnun"

Pottery.

Print.

Puppet.

Pyrotechnic:
As pyrotechnic stars fall on already fragile dreams - Ian Goh "Firework"

Quatrain:
Pure quatrain in a poet's heart - Waitman Barbe "The Fly Leaf"

Realism:
Realism hastening down that leaden street - Paul Cameron Brown "The Gathering of Dead Wood"

Recite/Recital.

Refurbish:
Plague of old refurbished buildings - Salik Shah "Field Notes"

Rhetoric.

Rococo:
A rococo footbridge hard at work holding up some dumb illusion - Brian Tierney "Catering"

Saga:
A saga of cities ancient and buried - Giosue Carducci "Sermione" transl. by Frank Sewall

To sing me sagas of your late delights - Dorothy Parker "A Certain Lady"

Satire:
Swift with satire as with sally - Harry Graham "The Last Horsed 'Bus"

The satyrizing Muse has themes sufficient - "The Whore"

Script.

Sculpture.

Scumble:
With smoke still scumbling the air - R.T. Smith "Still Life: From the Notebook of Ambrose Bierce, 1862"

Shadow Puppet:
Some perverse shadow puppet flailing - Sally Wen Mao "Willow, Stop Weeping"

Showstopper:
The canvas for another sunset showstopper - Teri Ellen Cross Davis "Migraines have their say"

Sketch.

Slapstick:
Nonlinear slapstick meets slasher flick - Chen Chen "I Invite My Parents to a Dinner Party"

speed into tomorrow's slapstick - Kaie Kellough "if who"

Thought it was slapstick throughout - Eunsong Kim "On Endings & Longing"

A heart's slapstick hiccup - Hailey Leithauser "We Few Born beneath a Bitter Star"

Smith:
Who is the smith or athena of this? - Brian Blanchfield "Learning"

Spells of women and smiths and wizards - "The Deer's Cry" transl. by Kuno Meyer

As the smith the glowing anvil strikes - Euripedes "Hercules Distracted" transl. by Michael Wodhull

smith my silence to an iron gate - Avi Silver "Passing Diamonds"

Snapshot:
Snapshots of all the people who've gotten lost - Jeffrey McDaniel "Compulsively Allergic to the Truth"

The ones that are snapshots of fear - Chase Twichell "The Blade of Nostalgia"

Softshoe:
A tattered flag's ragtime softshoe these lines will never do - L. Lamar Wilson "Lauren Oya Olamina Explains Earthseed to Ernest Hemingway"

Sonnet.

Soundtrack:
How it needs a good soundtrack - Hala Alyan "Object Permanence"

Stained Glass:
Arrange the facets of stained glass into story - N. Scott Momaday "The Dragon of Saint-Bertrand-De-Comminges"

Statue.

Steampunk:
Daft, round-the-world steampunk wagers - Caitriona O'Reilly "The Airship Era"

Stencil:
Stencilled on the petals of a bluebell - Helene Johnson "Trees at Night"

Built of stencils and explosive devices - Ada Limon "Fifteen Balls of Feathers"

Still Life.

Story.

Storybook:
Eke out a living on storybook memories - Paul Cameron Brown "Vertigo"

The world remained a storybook - Caitriona O'Reilly "The Airship Era"

A spill of storybook umber - Kiki Petrosino "Approaching the Smith Family Graveyard"

The happiest ending that can come out of a storybook - Dimitri Reyes "Speakers"

Surrealism.

Tailor.

Tap-Dance:
Tap-dancing in the hell writers make for themselves - Theodora Goss "The Red Shoes"

Tap-dancing up a crystal stair - Hailey Leithauser "The Old Woman Gets Drunk with the Moon"

Tapestry.

Television/TV.

Theater.

Tragedy/Tragic.

Two-Step:
Two-step with beloved ghosts - Angel Nafis "When I Realize I'm Wearing My Girlfriend's Ex-Girlfriend's Panties"

Vaudeville:
A post-tribulationist vaudeville act of God - Sandra McPherson "Driving in Circles with the Blind"

Ventriloquism:
A ventriloquist of the night - Shannan Mann "In Hell"

Flesh, pulse and shadow's ventriloquisms - Claire Millikin "Rock, Paper, Scissors"

Yearning to ring around a ventriloquist's echo - Soham Patel "Ultra Orator Spell"

Video:
Still playing in videos past her presence - Amy King "Ancient Sunlight"

Permanent footprints in a video landscape - Ann K. Schwader "Minions of the Moon"

still the tint of video game to your voice - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Second Stop Is Jupiter"

Watercolor:
That watercolor done in greens - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"

Sweatless as watercolour under glass - Thom Gunn "Autumn Chapter in a Novel"

Weave/Wove.

Whittle.

Write.


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