July Online Poetry Workshop

Ekphrasis is a literary technique in which a written or spoken work describes or comments on a work within another medium of art. Created by the Greeks, but popularized by the Romans, the goal of ekphrastic writing is to make the reader or listener envision a work of art as if it were physically present. The most contemporary use of the term relates to poetry as a response to a visual work of art. In this workshop, we will use the devices of Ekphrasis to respond to visual art, but also learn to see what surrounds us each day as a work of art, and to make it come alive.