Be Artful

Rita J. Maggart's Be Artful is less a book than a contemplative experience-a conversation between image, word, and silence. In this luminous collection, Maggart fuses her visual practice with poetry, offering meditations that bridge the sensory and the spiritual. Her concise verses act like brushstrokes: each phrase deliberate, pared down, and resonant, leaving the reader suspended in that liminal space between thought and feeling.

The book situates itself within the ekphrastic tradition yet...