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The ekphrastic poem—one provoked by or in response to a work of art—derives energy from the friction and affinities between two mediums and modes of experience: the visual and the verbal. As such, it can act as a vibrant site of experimentation and play, liminality and subversion. What transpires in the movement between one medium and another? What gets animated in the tensions between the spatial dimension of a visual artwork and the temporal dimension of a poem? How can ekphrastic writing proceed as a mode of inquiry, a manner of investigating perception and process?

Together, we’ll read through an invigorating range of poems that emerge from varied approaches to ekphrasis, partake in generative writing on works of art, and discuss one another’s ekphrastic poems.