To be in conversation with a piece of art is often a transformative experience and the formal possibilities within poetry create a container for us to explore what this might look like for our poems, and ourselves. 
​While ekphrastic poetry is often defined as writing about works of art such as sculptures, paintings, or photographs, the tradition is simply rooted in the practice of close, careful attention to objects and experiences and intersects with writing about land, nature, and environment.

Edward Hopper House Museum & Study Center is pleased to present a multi-part Ekphrastic Poetry workshop. 
A two-part VIRTUAL writing workshop on September 27 and October 18, 2021 offers participants an understanding of the traditions of ekphrasis and contemporary interpretations of the practice. Each virtual session is an hour and a half long, beginning with a close study of poetry, a discussion of themes from the lives of Edward Hopper and his family as well as writing generated from his paintings, and a block of time to generate and exchange new writing before we part. 
A two-part PLEIN AIR workshop on September 20 and October 4, 2021 will also be held in the garden at Edward Hopper House alongside the virtual sessions for participants who would like to go deeper into the practice and engage with the intersections of plein air painting and study. This workshop will explore the intersection of poetic practice with plein air painting. Participants will engage in a circular artistic mode, in which writing poetry and creating visual art can together generate a multifaceted expression. Students provide their own materials.
Plein Air Session One:
​NATURE OBJECTS 
Plein Air Session Two:
​LANDSCAPES 

WORKSHOP REGISTRATION

Virtual Writing Workshop Instructors:
Leader/Writer: JULIANA ROTH

Roth is the creator of the narrative web series, The University, which won Best Web/Pilot at the Los Angeles Film Awards, Juliana is a 2021 Stowe Story Labs Maven Media Fellowship Finalist and is developing several new independent projects for film and tv. Her poetry, fiction, and essays appear in the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Breakwater Review, Irish Pages, among others. In 2020, she was selected as a VIDA Fellow with Sundress Publications and was shortlisted by Rob Doyle for the Red Line Book Festival’s TU Dublin Short Story Competition. She serves as Chief Storyteller for the Edward Hopper House Museum & Study Center, teaches creative writing in art spaces and university settings, and is a member Playwright/Actor with WCT Theatre.​
Co-leader: ALEXANDRA DAVIES

Davies is a writer from New Jersey. She graduated from Ramapo College in 2019 with a degree in Literature and Creative Writing. Alexandra received a full scholarship to the 2018 New York State Summer Writers Institute. Her poetry and short stories have appeared in Leavings Magazine and Trillium. Alexandra currently works as the Office Administrator for the Edward Hopper House Museum & Study Center.
Plein Air Painting and Poetry Workshop Instructors:
Co-leader/Poet: A. ANUPAMA 

A. Anupama is an Indian-American poet, graduate of the MFA in Writing program at Vermont College of Fine Arts, founding editor and organizer of River River and adjunct professor at Ramapo College. A. Anupama's poetry has appeared in Waxwing, Drunken Boat, Fourteen Hills, Monkeybicycle, The Bitter Oleander, Bayou Magazine, ellipsis, CutBank, The Tulane Review, Permafrost Magazine, and other publications. Find essays, reviews, translations, and more poems at Numéro Cinq Magazine. Honors include a fellowship at the Center for Book Arts in NYC and Pushcart Prize nominations in 2015 and 2018. A. Anupama participated in Tupelo Press’s 30/30 Project in April 2020.
Co-leader/Painter: KERRI LEE GREEN 

Green grew up in Rockland and Bergen, and then studied art and art history at Vassar College. After graduating she moved to Los Angeles, where she pursued a mix of artistic endeavors, including writing, filmmaking, and painting, while counseling homeless youth. She co-founded Independent Women Artists (IWA), a nonprofit organization that paired professional women artists with at-risk youth to create original works of theater, film and visual arts. Now back on the East Coast, she has shown her paintings and painted objects in solo and group exhibitions. In her first exhibition, her work was featured on the poster for the 2012 Nyack Art Walk. She has exhibited at Edward Hopper House, ROCA, The Amis Gallery in Nyack, and Ille Arts in East Hampton. Her work is in private collections across the U.S., Germany and Brazil. Green's approach, mixing classic forms and figures with contemporary themes, fusing the spiritual and material, the sensual with the mundane, creates works that are at once social commentary and highly personal.