Join NC Poet Laureate Jaki Shelton Green for an invigorating two-hour ekphrastic poetry workshop exploring the exhibition David LaChapelle: Picture Show. The program is designed to expand your experience with art and inspire your writing. The tradition of engaging with works of art through poetry is known as ekphrasis (the Greek ek for out of […]
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Join us for a live reading of submissions and winners from the Tar River Poetry Contest during End Paper, our biannual art book fair. The Tar River Poetry Contest is accepting submissions until Saturday, May 31, 2025. Each entry can include up to two previously unpublished poems. The entry fee is $22 per poem. Each
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Join Jared Ledesma, curator of 20th-century and contemporary art, for a lecture expanding on the exhibition Grace Hartigan: The Gift of Attention. He offers a deeper look at how Hartigan’s bold work of the 1950s and 1960s intertwined with unconventional writings, reflecting her experimental spirit and deep connection to poetry. Image: Grace Hartigan, Snow Angel,
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Join NC Poet Laureate Jaki Shelton Green for an invigorating two-hour ekphrastic poetry workshop exploring the exhibition Grace Hartigan: The Gift of Attention. The program is designed to expand your experience with art and inspire your writing. The tradition of engaging with works of art through poetry as known as ekphrasis (the Greek ek for
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Join NC Poet Laureate Jaki Shelton Green for an invigorating two-hour ekphrastic poetry workshop exploring the exhibition The Time Is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure. The program is designed to expand your experience with art and inspire your writing. The tradition of engaging with works of art through poetry is known as ekphrasis
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Join North Carolina Poet Laureate Jaki Shelton Green for this invigorating two-hour ekphrastic poetry workshop designed to expand your experience with art and inspire your writing. The tradition of engaging with works of art is known in poetry as ekphrasis (the Greek ek for out of + phrasis for expression). We invite you to learn
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Join writer-scholar Jameela F. Dallis to compose ekphrastic poems inspired by printed matter found throughout the collection. Ekphrasis means description in Greek, and these poems are often vivid descriptions of works of art. For ages 16 and up. Through grounding exercises, guided reflections, and writing prompts, participants respond to artworks, encountering their own creativity through
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Join NC Poet Laureate Jaki Shelton Green, Black poets, and city laureates from across the state for Black Poetry Day. The day honors past and present Black poets and authors, examines the intersections of African American and African Diasporic heritage with the literary arts, and commemorates the birth of Jupiter Hammon, the first published African
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Join writer-scholar Jameela F. Dallis to compose ekphrastic poems inspired by the Michael Richards: Are You Down? exhibition (on view until July 23). Ekphrasis means description in Greek, and these poems are often vivid descriptions of works of art. Through grounding exercises, guided reflections, and writing prompts, participants respond to artworks, encountering their own creativity through language. Discussion and sharing
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In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, join us for the lecture “Origins of the Dream: Hughes’s Poetry and King’s Rhetoric” by National Humanities Center Fellow Dr. W. Jason Miller. The evening includes a post-lecture discussion moderated by historian Dr. Everett B. Ward and songs by Mahalia Jackson (beloved by Dr. King) performed by
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