art by Peter Paul Rubens

Bio:
Tova Beck-Friedman is a visual artist, filmmaker and poet. Her poems have been published in Whispers and Echoes magazine, Extinction Rebellion Creative Hub and Fevers of the Mind. Her poem Vertigo, is part of the Starry Night Anthology of The Ekphrastic Review.
In addition to writing, Tova fuses poetry and moving images to create cine-poems. Her films screened, among others, at The Poet House, NYC; Ó Bhéal International Poetry-Film Competition, Ireland; International Video Poetry Festival / Athens, Greece; The Film; Video Poetry Symposium, Los Angeles.;
Blissfest333 Poetry Film Festival and REELpoetry/HoustonTX

the picture: 

half-clad women flailing —
carried by men 
men waving swords —
men pulling 
women pushing —
struggling to extract
themselves from their abductors

the lecture: in front of a large screen my art history professor waxes lyrical about the superb painting technique employed by the 17th century artist Peter Paul Rubens…