Ekphrastic Poetry: A Meeting of Art and Words — A Workshop with Ellen Rowland

Ekphrastic Poetry: A Meeting of Art and Words

Instructor: Ellen Rowland

Wednesday, November 6, 10:00am (Eastern)

Length: 2 hours 

Price: $25 (payment options)

Note: Participants capped at 15 for this workshop.

Workshop Description:       

Ekphrastic poetry is a written response to a work of art— a painting, drawing, photograph, sculpture or other type of rendering. Since the age of Homer, poets have devised various ways to interact with art, including analyzing the work, exploring symbolic meanings, inventing stories, or even creating dialog and dramatic scenes. The artwork often leads the poet to new insights and surprising discoveries. 

In the first half of this two-hour workshop, we’ll go over the history of Ekphrastic poetry, discuss different approaches to and examples of ekphrastic works. Then, we’ll use our dedicated writing time to create a draft poem inspired by one of three different images provided.

Attendees are invited and encouraged to engage, discuss and share their poems with the group, although this is not mandatory. This workshop is limited to 15 participants so that everyone has a chance to share their work in a safe and intimate space.

Limited to 15 participants

About The Workshop Leader:

Ellen Rowland is a writer and editor who leads small, generative poetry workshops on craft and form. She is the author of two collections of haiku, Light, Come Gather Me and Blue Seasons, as well as the book Everything I Thought I Knew, essays on living, learning and parenting outside the status quo. Her poems have appeared in numerous literary journals and in several anthologies, most recently The Wonder of Small Things, edited by James Crews and Facing Goodbye by The Wee Sparrow Poetry Press.Her debut collection of full-length poems, No Small Thing, was published by Fernwood Press in 2023. Her poem within, “When the World Was Whole,” was nominated for Best of Net by Braided Way Magazine. She lives off the grid with her family on an island in Greece. Connect with her on Instagram and Facebook