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Writer Valerie Nieman |
Ekphrastic- to me, it sounds like "Eek! I'm frantic and spastic!" but alas, it's not an onomatopoeia (words that sound like their meaning).
Let's get ekphrastic!
Feb 24, 6:30-8:30pm Art After Dark: Ekphrastic Writing with Val Nieman
Art After Dark welcomes poet Val Nieman for an evening workshop of ekphrastic writing. Registration required. WAM members free; $5 nonmembers.
Every painting or sculpture crystallizes the artists’ view of the world. Likewise, a poet approaches the world through words, trying to capture that moment of recognition or insight. So what happens when they come together? A blending of imaginations known as ekphrasis.
Ekphrastic poetry celebrates the power of the image even as it tries to impose upon it the authority of the word. Learn about the technique, read great poems by Auden, Rilke, and others, then use the glorious variety of visual art in the exhibition, Weatherspoon Art Museum: 70 Years of Collectingto create our own “marriage of imaginations.”
Valerie Nieman is the author of a poetry collection, Wake Wake Wake, as well as a book of short stories and two novels. Her third novel, Blood Clay, set in Piedmont North Carolina, will be published in March. She has received an NEA creative writing fellowship, two Elizabeth Simpson Smith prizes in fiction, and the Greg Grummer Prize in poetry. She graduated from West Virginia University and the M.F.A. program at Queens University. She teaches writing at N.C. A&T State University and is the poetry editor for Prime Number.
WAM members free; $5 nonmembers. Register by contacting Terri Dowell-Dennis at: t_dowell@uncg.edu or (336) 256-1449.
Location: Dillard Room, Weatherspoon Art Museum
Links:
Val Nieman
Weatherspoon Art Museum
Wikipedia: "Ekphrasis"
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