The Art of Ekphrastic Poetry Workshop with David S
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Date & Time
Sun, Jan 12 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Address (map)
40 E. Anapamu St.
Join SBPL and former Santa Barbara Poet Laureate, David Starkey, on an exploration of the art of ekphrasis: writing poetry about works of art.
On Sunday, January 12, David will facilitate a workshop on writing ekphrastic poetry. Participants will read and discuss published ekphrastic poems, then be given the chance to write and discuss their own poems inspired by selected works of art.
The following Sunday, January 19, participants from the workshop will each read their ekphrastic poem in the Faulkner Gallery. Images about which they have written will be projected on screen. In the second half of the program, David will read from his new book, You, Caravaggio, a biography in poems of the great Italian painter while Caravaggio’s paintings are projected on screen.