Join us for a virtual Craft Class and Reading with Jenny Xieon Thursday, December 19, 2024! This Craft Class is virtual and will run from 6:30 PM-8:30 PM ET. With a short reading from the author to follow. 

Once you RSVP, you will receive a Zoom Link the day before the workshop. You will also have a chance to donate directly to the "tip jar" via the writers Paypal or Venmo. All tips go directly to the instructor. 

EKPHRASTIC ENCOUNTERS: The ekphrastic poem—one provoked by or in response to a work of art—derives energy from the friction and affinities between two mediums and modes of experience: the visual and the verbal. As such, it can act as a vibrant site of experimentation and play, liminality and subversion. What transpires in the movement between one medium and another? What gets animated in the tensions between the spatial dimension of a visual artwork and the temporal dimension of a poem? How can ekphrastic writing proceed as a mode of inquiry, a manner of investigating perception and process? Together, we’ll read through an invigorating range of poems that emerge from varied approaches to ekphrasis and generate our own ekphrastic responses.

Jenny Xie is the author of Eye Level and The Rupture Tense, both finalists for the National Book Award. She teaches at Bard College, and lives in New York City.