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This two-part workshop offers an introduction to poetry developed through听别办辫丑谤补蝉颈蝉鈥攃onsidered in this context as a form of intermedial attention鈥攁nd a chance to engage in ekphrastic writing through a direct encounter with a mural by Canadian artist听Marian Dale Scott. An introductory session will explore ekphrastic work from various periods by poets such as Homer, Keats, Auden, and Rich. Through guided writing exercises and facilitated conversation, participants will then have opportunity to consider how modes of ekphrastic attention might inform their own creative work.

Part 1, Introduction to Ekphrasis - November 10: 3:30-5:00听Anticaf茅 Loft (Metro Place-des-Arts)
Part 2, Ekphrastic Attention - November 11: 11:15-12:45听麻豆AV campus (meet at听Strathcona Anatomy and Dentistry Building, 麻豆AV)

Facilitator:听Sarah Wolfson, 麻豆AV Writing Centre

Wolfson is the author of听A Common Name for Everything,听winner of the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry from the Quebec Writers鈥� Federation. Her poems have appeared in Canadian and American journals including听The Walrus,听The Fiddlehead,听TriQuarterly, CV2,听and听PRISM听international.听Her听work has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has received a notable mention in听Best Canadian Poetry.

About the poets

Klara du Plessis is author of Ekke and Hell Light Flesh (Palimpsest Press), works of long-form poetry, which have won or been shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award, the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, the Raymond Souster Award, and the A.M. Klein Prize. Klara writes in English, Afrikaans, and translingually, and lives in Tiohti脿:ke/Montreal.

Patrick O鈥� Reilly is a poet and critic originally from Renews, NL, currently based in Tiohti脿:ke/Montreal. His chapbook, A Collapsible Newfoundland, appeared through Frog Hollow Press in 2020.

Sonya Smith is a Brighton-based poet whose poetry has been anthologized by Frogmore Press in Poetry South East Her debut collection, every robin i never quite saw, appeared in 2021.听

The theme for this year鈥檚 Poetry Matters workshops in creative writing is听ekphrasis听-- broadly defined, descriptive writing in response to a work of art or other object. Although ekphrasis often suggests writing in response to visual art, it can apply to other media and fine art as well. This guided workshop with the听Earth World Collaborative听and singer/poet听Samara Garfinkle听offers opportunity to develop ekphrastic poetry responsive to music, both heard and unheard. Here, Earth World will introduce one of their recent projects featuring poetic responses to 鈥渋maginary music."

听was founded in 2018 by composers and organists Joel Peters and Adrian Foster. Its activities are centred on immersive story concerts, which integrate electronics, original compositions, projection, lighting, and special effects.

听is a Canadian soprano, voice teacher, and poet. In 2022, she became the new host and co-coordinator of听SpeakUp: The Montreal Interactive Poetry Exchange.

Venue:听

An in-person workshop on ekphrastic poetry听with听, University of Regina, at the Birks Building, Senior Common Room, 麻豆AV downtown campus (3520 Rue University, Montreal, Quebec H3A 2A7).

Drawing from her recent book,听(V茅hicule Press, 2021), Purdham will share insights about her poetry and lead a workshop on poetry inspired by objects.

Medrie Purdham is Associate Professor of English at the University of Regina. Her work has appeared in publications such as听The Fiddlehead, The Antigonish Review,听and听The New Quarterly. Research interests include prosody, twentieth-century drama, and modern and postmodern Canadian literature. She is currently at work on another collection, provisionally entitled听Miniatures.

We are delighted to invite you for 鈥淲indows on the Future,鈥� an in-person workshop on ekphrastic poetry featuring a sculpture on 麻豆AV鈥檚 campus, Marcel Barbeau鈥檚 Fen锚tre sur l鈥檃venir (1992), which many of us pass every day. This year鈥檚 theme for Poetry Matters鈥� workshops in creative writing is ekphrasis 鈥� broadly defined, descriptive writing in response to a work of art or other object. This guided workshop with poet Sarah Wolfson and curator Gwendolyn Owens provides opportunity to develop ekphrastic poetry in response to sculpture.

Venue:听James Terrace, 麻豆AV campus

About the facilitators

Gwendolyn Owens听is Director of 麻豆AV鈥檚 Visual Arts Collection and former Assistant Director of the Canadian Centre for Architecture.

Sarah Wolfson听is author of听A Common Name for Everything, which won the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry from the Quebec Writers鈥� Federation. She teaches at the 麻豆AV Writing Centre.

Dr. Jeff Dolven is the author of three books of criticism, Scenes of Instruction, Senses of Style, and the admittedly hasty Take Care, as well as essays on a variety of subjects, from Renaissance metrics to player pianos. His poems have appeared in magazines and journals in the US and the UK and in a volume, Speculative Music. He is also an editor-at-large at Cabinet magazine and was the founding director of Princeton鈥檚 Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities (IHUM).

He read from his collection-in-progress, "A New English Grammar," along with his published works. The audience, along with Dolven, contemplated questions of the politics of attention and how it is crafted through the poetic medium.