An exploration of ekphrasis, poetry that has a conversation with art. We'll look at some sample poem painting pairings and discover some of the techniques and approaches that can be used in writing an ekphrastic poem. Then we'll look at a painting and write a poem of our own.
Barbara Crooker is the author of nine full-length books of poetry, including Some Glad Morning (Pitt Poetry Series). Radiance, her first book, won the 2005 Word Press First Book Award and was finalist for the 2006 Paterson Poetry Prize; Line Dance, her second book, won the 2009 Paterson Award for Excellence in Literature; and The Book of Kells won the Best Poetry Book of 2019 Award from Writing by the Sea. Her writing has received a number of awards, including the 2004 WB Yeats Society of New York Award, the 2003 Thomas Merton Poetry of the Sacred Award, and three Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Creative Writing Fellowships. Her work appears in a variety of literary journals and anthologies, including Common Wealth: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania and The Bedford Introduction to Literature. She has been a fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Moulin à Nef, Auvillar, France, and The Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Annaghmakerrig, Ireland. Garrison Keillor has read her poems over sixty times on The Writer’s Almanac, and she has read her poetry all over the country, including The Festival of Faith and Writing, Poetry at Round top, The Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival, Glory Days: A Bruce Springsteen Symposium, and the Library of Congress.
Workshops are free and a benefit of membership, but please register in advance.
Workshop 1, November 9: Craft talk.
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Workshop 2, December 12: Poetry feedback.
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