Ekphrastic Poetry Workshop with Jodie Hollander

1400 Remington Street,Fort Collins CO 80524

04 June, 2022

Description

Ekphrastic Poetry Workshop with Jodie Hollander: Experience art at a new level and use it to inspire your writing. Ekphrastic Poetry Workshop with Jodie Hollander Experience art at a new level and use it to inspire your writing. Poet Jodie Hollander teaches this ekphrastic poetry workshop at the Gregory Allicar Museum of Art, in which participants will respond poetically to exhibitions at the museum. Students will study examples of celebrated poems that respond to or were inspired by art. Then students will be led through a variety of writing activities inspired by art at the museum, ultimately leading to a draft of an original poem. Students will discuss poetic techniques such as the use of vivid imagery, the importance of sonics, how to shape a poetic line, as well as techniques for drafting and revision. About Jodie Hollander: Jodie Hollander’s work has appeared in journals such as The Poetry Review, The Yale Review, PN Review, The Kenyon Review, Poetry London, The Hudson Review, The Dark Horse, The New Criterion, The Rialto, Verse Daily, The Best Australian Poems of 2011, and The Best Australian Poems of 2015. Her debut full-length collection, My Dark Horses, is published with Liverpool University Press in the UK and Oxford University Press in the US. She currently lives in Fort Collins, Colorado. To learn more about Jodie or her work, visit jodiehollander.com.