Ekphrastic Poetry Workshop with Jaki Shelton Green

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 + phrasis for expression). We invite you to learn how to use art from David LaChapelle: Picture Show as a springboard for your own poems, stories, and memoirs.

The workshop is open to writers at all stages of their careers and will offer poets a range of approaches to connect with a work of art in another medium.

Photo: Courtesy of Jaki Shelton Green