Ekphrastic Poetry

Description:
This course is about the way in which poets can approach an existing piece of visual art and through poetry bring something new to it that adds value to the readers experience of both the artwork and the poem.   This process is today called ekphrastic writing, although the original meaning refers to a detailed description in literature of a work of visual art.
There is a long history of poets being inspired by a piece of art and turning out wonderful poems in response to it.  But this has to go beyond a description of the artwork and bring something more to it.  After all it has to be remembered that the reader of a poem today can Google the artwork and take a look at it themselves, and if your poem sparks an interest then they are very likely to do that, so a description is not enough, your poem has to bring something else to the table.
Leader: Samary
Moderator(s):

Objectives:
To write Ekphrastic poetry to a given work of art
To comment on each persons poem
To consider different approaches to Ekphrastic Art

Level of expertise: Open to all

Subject matter: Art.