Tightrope Books Writing Without a Net Workshop #7

Tightrope Books’ monthly writing workshop series connects published authors with people interested in receiving advice and instruction in the idiosyncratic art of creative writing. Come out to Writing Without a Net Workshop #7.. The Art of Poetry about Art: Writing Ekphrastic Poems. Refreshments will be served.

In this workshop, designed for writers of all levels, you will take a close look at the past, present, and future of this fertile genre as a means of refining our poetic craft. Along with workshopping one's own poems about works of art, you will examine a variety of poems written in the ekphrastic tradition and discuss how the tradition must inevitably change with new forms of “art” (from plastic surgery to plastination) and new means of composing poems (from cellphones to Photoshop). The group will end the day by visiting a local gallery and putting our shared insights to work, creating new poems on the spot or, at the very least, sketching the first faint lines of a future masterpiece.

Daniel Scott Tysdal is the author of Predicting the Next Big Advertising Breakthrough Using a Potentially Dangerous Method (Coteau 2006), which received the ReLit Award for Poetry (2007) and the Anne Szumigalski Poetry Award (2006). His work has appeared in a number of Canadian literary journals and has earned him both an honourable mention at the 2003 National Magazine Awards and a place in the finals of the CBC’s 2005 National Poetry Face-Off. His second book of poetry, The Mourner’s Book of Albums, is forthcoming from Tightrope Books fall 2010. He teaches creative writing at the University of Toronto, Scarborough.

Workshop price is $50. Time is 12-5pm. Tickets at http://tightropebooks.com/work...

For more info contact Shirarose Wilensky (647) 348-4460 or email shirarose [at] tightropebooks [dot] com.