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From Back to School for Everyone: Ekphrastic Poetry with Victoria Chang
" In this course, we will focus on ekphrastic poetry—a poetic description and depiction of a work of visual art. In some ways, all poems are conversations with the world, but ekphrastic poems specifically focus on artwork. Throughout history, poets such as Homer, Virgil, John Keats, Robert Browning, Rainer Maria Rilke, Marianne Moore, W.H. Auden, William Carlos Williams, Elizabeth Bishop, Jorie Graham, John Ashbery, Charles Simic, Anne Carson, Paisley Rekdal, Robin Coste Lewis, Brian Teare, Terrance Hayes, and so many more have turned to visual art or other artforms as a kind of correspondence to amplify and expand upon their poems, and in some cases, to begin a poem.
We will read some individual ekphrastic poems to start, and then transition to full collections of poems that are either fully ekphrastic or contain many ekphrastic poems. While reading, we will consider how poets have encountered visual art and other art forms, and how they have re-casted their own seeing into new pieces of art."
Ekphrastic Poetry with Victoria Chang
2 participants, 12 books
Overview
From Back to School for Everyone: Ekphrastic Poetry with Victoria Chang
" In this course, we will focus on ekphrastic poetry—a poetic description and depiction of a work of visual art. In some ways, all poems are conversations with the world, but ekphrastic poems specifically focus on artwork. Throughout history, poets such as Homer, Virgil, John Keats, Robert Browning, Rainer Maria Rilke, Marianne Moore, W.H. Auden, William Carlos Williams, Elizabeth Bishop, Jorie Graham, John Ashbery, Charles Simic, Anne Carson, Paisley Rekdal, Robin Coste Lewis, Brian Teare, Terrance Hayes, and so many more have turned to visual art or other artforms as a kind of correspondence to amplify and expand upon their poems, and in some cases, to begin a poem.
We will read some individual ekphrastic poems to start, and then transition to full collections of poems that are either fully ekphrastic or contain many ekphrastic poems. While reading, we will consider how poets have encountered visual art and other art forms, and how they have re-casted their own seeing into new pieces of art."
