"Ekphrasis" or "ecphrasis"—from the Greek ek and phrasis, meaning 'out' and 'speak' respectively—referred in ancient times to a poetic description of a thing, person, or experience. In his Ars Poetica (13 BC) the Roman poet Horace wrote his dictum "ut pictura poesis" (as is painting, so is poetry). It is in celebration of the great union between these two forms of meaning-making that we present poems inspired by ARAS images that first appeared in our newsletter ARAS Connections and our Ekphrazein event series.