Janée J. Baugher is the author of The Ekphrastic Writer: Creating Art-Influenced Poetry, Fiction and Nonfiction. For her third poetry collection, she won Tupelo Press’s Dorset Prize for The Andrew Wyeth Chronicles (2026). "...Thinking about those poems, and in particular about the form in which the poet had chosen to write them—each poem is a series of numbered notes...each note implicitly guiding the reader to more information about a poem’s titular painting. The notes brilliantly stitch the act of composition to the page while also holding the poems open... Via the notes, one sees through the paintings to which they refer, and imagines oneself in the position of Andrew Wyeth himself, a step away from the painting he has just made, or is making, so that one traces the poet’s ekphrastic experience from behind the painting, as it were, rather than in front of it."
