POSTPONED: Ekphrastic Poetry Workshop inspired by Iterations Art Show

Writing the Ekphrastic Poem Workshop- the Iterations Edition

Join poet Yvonne Blomer for an engaging workshop surrounded by stimulating artworks at the Metchosin ArtPod Gallery. You will read ekphrastic poems, explore the visual art around you, and write your own poems in the ekphrastic tradition. Ekphrastic poems focus on works of art, but according to www.poets.org, “Modern ekphrastic poems have generally shrugged off antiquity’s obsession with elaborate description, and instead have tried to interpret, inhabit, confront and speak to their subjects.” Join Yvonne for a few hours where you will inhabit pieces of art and speak to or from them through poetry. Bring pen and paper and be ready to create several new drafts of poems.

If poets are willing, poems or poem fragments may be selected to display alongside the artworks that inspired them for the duration of the Iterations: Art in Series art show running through to end of March.

We ran this workshop back in Fall 2022 and it was such fun for participant and, afterwards, for art gallery attendees reading the poetic results. We are excited to offer this second workshop.

Covid considerations: Pending changing Covid guidelines, masks may be recommended.