Ekphrastic Poetry Workshop

One artistic form can inspire another, creating profound connections, often in eye-opening ways. In this 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 in the exhibit Lines We Did Not Draw 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! Free and open to the public.