washing dishes: a father’s glimpses

I was poking around poems portal and got to this distinction from Charif Shanahan:

lineage as much as we are with personal lineages: individual voices (or even single poems) that have changed you, with and after whom you feel you are now writing. The unifying ideas for the issue will be exchange, influence, conversation.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet-books/2023/05/call-for-work-lineage-influence

That was preceded by this dyad:

For our November issue, we are looking for original poems that engage directly with notions of lineage and influence. Your poems can be for or to or after a predecessor or contemporary; “about” lineage or influence thematically; intertextual; ekphrastic; an homage, critique, or anything between; anything that places your original work in conversation with a poetic or artistic antecedent or contemporary. Show us who moves and agitates you, who paved the way for you as a poet, who didn’t, who opened imaginative doors, who tried to close them, who teaches you, and with whom you choose to be in artistic conversation and collaboration (emphasis added).

Going to the dictionary.com, I learn that ekphrastic means “a literary device consisting of a vivid, detailed description of a visual work of art.”