Ekphrastic Poetry: Writing About Art

Ekphrastic Poetry Workshop: Writing About Art
Taught by Averill Curdy, Professor in the Department of English at Northwestern University

Participants should bring a pad or laptop for writing and a pen/pencil.

Ekphrastic poetry is a form of writing that describes, discusses, or is inspired by a work of visual art.

For millennia poets have been fascinated by and writing about visual art. What is it that writing about a painting can enable us to say that we might not find to say otherwise? In this workshop, we will read some contemporary ekphrastic poems. We'll engage in slow looking, both at each other and at the art on the walls of the Grove Gallery's current exhibition "Women Painting Women." With the help of prompts provided we will develop material inspired by the art and our time together that you can use in your own writing.

The workshop will be led by Averill Curdy, PhD; Professor in the English Department at Northwestern University and co-editor of the Longman Anthology of Poetry.

Averill Curdy, Ph.D.
(she/her/hers)

20$ Please pay in advance to RSVP. Need assistance? Email sarah@studio215.org

Participants should bring a pad or laptop for writing and a pen/pencil.