The Rooster tried to tag me on this post, but it didn’t work. So here it is. Ekphrastic poetry is poetry written in response to the visual arts, by the way.
Schedule and details for our upcoming workshop with @Melissa Studdard:
In Part I, “Entering the Conversation,” we’ll focus on one of the most poetically depicted paintings of all time, Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, by Pieter Bruegel. We’ll look at a number of poems about the painting, more paintings about Icarus, more ekphrastic poems, and more paintings by Bruegel. Then we’ll write our own poems to enter into this dynamic conversation that’s been thriving for centuries.
In Part II, “Re-envisioning Greatness” we’ll look at some of the less glorified art works and forms and see what fabulous poet Marianne Moore has written about them. As well, we’ll look at how another great poet, Adrienne Rich, has re-envisioned the subject matter of more canonized works by reclaiming the voices of objectified or marginalized figures within.
In Part III, “Conversing with Each Other,” we’ll recognize each other’s greatness by responding poetically to each other’s poetry and/or artwork, so if you have paintings, photographs, sculptures, tapestries, tattoo designs, graffiti art, or artwork of any other medium lurking about, now is the time to dust them off and prepare them for digital sharing.
In Part IV, “Starting New Conversations,” we’ll identify great artworks that we’d like to engage with poetically and about which we’d like to see new, thriving conversations bloom. We’ll begin the conversation by writing poems about them. In these poems, we’ll focus on address to the reader, and we’ll raise concerns, themes, and/or questions that we hope others will respond to poetically.
Five seats remain: http://www.poetrycoop.com/online-poetry-workshops/ekphrastic-poetry-dialoguing-greats
Melissa Studdard is on Facebook and Twitter. She writes on Johntext Texas. Visit her personal homepage www.melissastuddard.com and find out about events and her books and contact her on http://melissastuddard.com/contact/ More information is available on Wikipedia.