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In an ekphrastic poem, a poet explores a work of visual art, such as a drawing, sculpture, or painting. Elizabeth Alexander's 2011 poem "Walking," for example, meditates on Charles Alston's 1963 painting _Walking_; Cornelius Eady's 2001 poem "Jacob Lawrence: Summer Street Scene," ______ takes a painting as its subject: Jacob Lawrence's 1948 work _Summer Street Scene in Harlem_.