Poetry Workshop: Ekphrastic Writing

Facilitator: Eimear Laffan 

Join poet Eimear Laffan as she leads participants in responding directly to works of art in the exhibition LOOT: Orienting to Matter through the writing of poems, Taking the art work as a starting point for experimental stories, myths, and maps. Like the exhibition the work is expansive inviting participants to navigate their own imaginative journeys, rather than learning set technique. This is a space to dream, mix memory with fiction, and expand your creative freedom. Materials: Please bring with you a pen or pencil and a notebook.

Eimear Laffan is the author of [about]ness (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2023) which was nominated for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. She has been a finalist for the Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers and the CBC Poetry Prize. She is currently completing her second collection with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts. Some of her work can be found in Funicular, Geist, The Ex-Puritan, Scrivener Creative Review, and in the League of Canadian Poets’ visual poetry anthology, Spectral Lines.

FREE EVENT—limited to 12 participants— click to register.