Ekphrastic Poetry Workshop

One artistic form can inspire another, creating profound connections, often in eye-opening ways. In

this free workshop, we will earn about various approaches poets take to the mode of ekphrasis--poems

that converse or correspond with, interpret, or “riff off” of visual art. Then, using prompts to guide

us, we will write poems in response to works of visual art that inspire, intrigue, puzzle, or move

us. We will work toward creating a third space where the poem and art together are something more

or different than their parts—something, perhaps, unexpected!