Summer Reading: Ekphrastic Poetry Workshop (Main) In-Person
Art urges us to look more closely at the world around us, and at ourselves. In this generative writing workshop, facilitated by Heather Nelson, participants will choose an image with which to “converse”: each writer will be given prompts and questions in order to interact with their image and, after having this dialogue with the art, writers will work to edit and arrange their observations into a working draft of an ekphrastic poem. There will be a little time at the end of the session for sharing drafts and discussing next steps. Registration is required.
- Date:
- Saturday, August 2, 2025
- Time:
- 2:00pm - 4:00pm
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Learning Lab
- Branches:
- Main Library
- Audience:
- Adult
- Categories:
- City Event Feature Summer Reading Workshop/Class
Heather Nelson‘s first book of poetry, Motherland, is forthcoming from Kelsay Books in 2025. Her work has been published in Ekphrastic Review, Lily Poetry Review, Nixes Mate, Spoon River Review, and other publications. She currently leads a local freewrite group, runs workshops at Grub Street, and plans events for Litcrawl and other community writing experiences. She is already working on her next book of poetry.