HNAR-367: Ekphrasis Poetry

This poetry workshop will undertake the constraint of EKPHRASIS: the poem of dialogue between visual art or image and word. We will encounter together current and relevant imagery and also meet at or visit museums in the area to engage with images. We will workshop them in class and complete a small portfolio of work. This course is a writing class that will use various models of poetry as platforms for possible excursions into written projects. We will explore the possibilities by engaging with images and then engaging with the work in a workshop community. With each writing assignment there will be a reading assignment that either exemplifies the "problem" or presents some type of conceptual framework for it.