We are excited to bring you our new series “great weather for Workshops” at the amazing Living Room Gallery in New York City. These workshops will be generative workshops that happen on the 3rd Wednesday of every month at 8:00 pm, each with a fabulous guest facilitator to take your craft to a new and unexpected place. Hosted by Thomas Fucaloro.
April’s guest facilitator is melissa christine goodrum
experimentalism & ekphrasis[a literary response to art]: Poetry, Music, and the Visual Arts have always belonged together.
In this workshop, we will:
* read and discuss several works of contemporary ekphrastic poetry
* listen and respond to transcendent music
* purposefully attend at least one current exhibition within the Living Room Gallery to compose in response
* Attending poets will compose at least three new poems.
Registration is required. Limited to 25 participants.
melissa christine goodrum is the editor of four print anthologies and the author of two full-length poetry collections: definitions uprising (NY Quarterly Press) and something sweet & filled with blood (great weather for MEDIA). Her poetic experiences include Poetry Workshop Leader for the Safe Return Project, Writing Teacher at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Administrative Director of Bowery Arts & Science, Pushcart Nominee, and the recipient of a Zora Neale Hurston Award from the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University. Recently, she joined the poetry editorial staff at Pedestal Magazine. Website
Save 25% on melissa’s book something sweet & filled with blood at our online store. Offer closes April 30, 2024.