Ekphrastic Poetry

$25 each session or $60 for all 3 sessions (January - March)

Join us for our new series on Ekphrastic Poetry! Ekphrastic poetry is poetry inspired by works of art – paintings, photography, sculpture, and more. Whether you’re an emerging writer wondering how to step into poetry, or an experienced writer looking for new inspiration, Ekphrastic poetry can open new doors to creativity. In each of the three sessions of this workshop, we’ll explore different ways poets connect with art through reading and discussing Ekphrastic poems by Anne Sexton, Patricia Smith, Barbara Crooker and others.  You will have opportunities to try out the techniques they used and build a community of support as we share and learn together. 

https://www.yellowarrowpublishing.com/workshop-sign-up/ekphrastic2024

You are strongly encouraged to register for the full 3 sessions. However, you are invited to attend one session at a time as you are available.

Dates: January 17, February 21, March 20

Time: 7:00 PM - 8:00PM EST

Where: Zoom link sent after registration

About the instructor:

Joanne Durham is the author of To Drink from a Wider Bowl, winner of the Sinclair Poetry Prize and an Eric Hoffer nominee (Evening Street Press 2022), and On Shifting Shoals (Kelsay Books 2023). Her Ekphrastic poems have won Third Wednesday Magazine’s Annual Poetry Contest and the Mary Ruffin Poole Prize and were finalists for the Lit/South Award and the Mary Blinn Poetry Prize. Her poems appear in Yellow Arrow, Poetry South, Writers Resist, Whale Road Review, Sky Island Journal, James Crews’ anthology The Wonder of Small Things, and many other journals and anthologies. A Pushcart nominee and longtime educator, Joanne has taught Ekphrastic poetry classes through the Osher Lifelong Learning Center. Learn more about her at https://www.joannedurham.com/.