Write With Your Eyes: An Ekphrastic Poetry Workshop

Ready to awaken your creativity? Join us in person for Write With Your Eyes, a fun and interactive ekphrastic poetry workshop.

This workshop will explore writing in the ekphrastic tradition—that is, writing inspired by visual art. We will spend the first half hour of the workshop reading and discussing a selection of published poems written in the ekphrastic mode, then participants will have time to wander the gallery and find inspiration in the artworks on display by TCC students. Participants will be guided through several writing activities that help them plumb, transform, and carry the canvas on their own blank page. While the genre of focus will be poetry, students will be welcome to explore writing in other genres too. The last part of the workshop will open space for participants to share their work aloud.

Stephanie Choi’s poems appear in Beloit Poetry Journal, Blackbird, Copper Nickel, Electric Literature, New Ohio Review, and elsewhere. Her debut collection, The Lengest Neoi, was selected by Brenda Shaughnessy for the 2023 Iowa Poetry Prize and published in 2024. She was the 2023-24 Poet-in-Residence at Sewanee: The University of the South and one of Poets and Writers Magazine’s Debut Poets of 2024. She is an Assistant Professor at Oklahoma State University, where she teaches creative writing at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

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