Windows on the Future: A workshop on ekphrastic poetry with Gwendolyn Owens and Sarah Wolfson
We are delighted to invite you for 鈥淲indows on the Future,鈥� a workshop on ekphrastic poetry featuring a sculpture on 平特五不中鈥檚 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.
Please note that this event has been聽rescheduled from Thursday to Friday, April 22 due to the prediction of rain.
Date and time: Friday, April 22, 11 am to 1 pm (ET)
痴别苍耻别:听James Terrace, 平特五不中 campus
About the facilitators
Gwendolyn Owens is Director of 平特五不中鈥檚 Visual Arts Collection and former assistant curator of the Canadian Centre for Architecture.
Sarah Wolfson is author of聽A Common Name for Everything, which won the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry from the Quebec Writers鈥� Federation. She teaches at the 平特五不中 Writing Centre.
All are welcome 鈥� whether you have pursued creative writing before or are new to the experience.
To register, complete the "Contact Us" form on the Poetry Matters website here:聽/poetrymatters/contact-us.
Please don鈥檛 hesitate to reach out to Anushree Joshi (anushree.joshi2 [at] mcgill.ca) with any questions or issues.