Rooster Moans Online Poetry Workshops
Workshops run continuously for one month, with lessons posted at
weekly intervals. Each week, you'll write a poem at your own pace in our
password-protected space. Your workshop will be archived for an
additional four-week period, so you can post revisions and continue the
conversation. It's fun—even a little habit-forming—we promise.
The Poem as Portrait
http://www.poetrycoop.com/poetry-workshops/poem-portrait
When a painter or a photographer creates a portrait of someone, what is it exactly they are capturing? How can the same be done in words? In this course, making reference to examples of paintings, photographs and sculpture, and the artistic motives of their makers, we'll examine the observational and linguistic tools a poet has to make a portrait. We'll then go direct to our subjects, the people we choose to portray, producing a small poetic "gallery" of our own work.
Mon, 03 Nov 2014 to Sun, 30 Nov 2014
The Poem as Portrait
http://www.poetrycoop.com/poetry-workshops/poem-portrait
When a painter or a photographer creates a portrait of someone, what is it exactly they are capturing? How can the same be done in words? In this course, making reference to examples of paintings, photographs and sculpture, and the artistic motives of their makers, we'll examine the observational and linguistic tools a poet has to make a portrait. We'll then go direct to our subjects, the people we choose to portray, producing a small poetic "gallery" of our own work.
Mon, 03 Nov 2014 to Sun, 30 Nov 2014
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When
a painter or a photographer creates a portrait of someone, what is it
exactly they are capturing? How can the same be done in words? In this
course, making reference to examples of paintings, photographs and
sculpture, and the artistic motives of their makers, we'll examine the
observational and linguistic tools a poet has to make a portrait.
We'll then go direct to our subjects, the people we choose to portray, producing a small poetic "gallery" of our own work.
Note: this is not an ekphrastic course, but a different take on using art as a tool. We use the artist's methods as inspiration, transmuting their tools (colour, background, light and shade, and other more esoteric aspects) into word choice, tone, the way we "pose" our subject etc, to write direct from life, about people known personally to participants, or people provided to them for the exercise.
We'll also look at a broad selection of poems other writers have made as portraits - including work from Lucille Clifton, Plath, and Shakespeare's dark lady of the sonnets. We'll tackle the issue of the right to write as well; when questioning the ethics of who we right about, and why.
The Poem as Portrait
http://www.poetrycoop.com/poetry-workshops/poem-portrait
Online course dates:
Workshop Leader Karen Hoy has a Diploma in Creative Writing from the University of Bristol in the south west of England. Her work has been published in many literary journals and print anthologies, including the portrait poem "Gauguin Girl" in My Mother Threw Knives (Second Light Publications).
She is married to the poet Alan Summers, and lives in Bradford-on-Avon in Wiltshire. Karen also works as a Development Producer for documentaries, and in her TV career has worked on productions for the BBC, National Geographic, and the Discovery Channels.
We'll then go direct to our subjects, the people we choose to portray, producing a small poetic "gallery" of our own work.
Note: this is not an ekphrastic course, but a different take on using art as a tool. We use the artist's methods as inspiration, transmuting their tools (colour, background, light and shade, and other more esoteric aspects) into word choice, tone, the way we "pose" our subject etc, to write direct from life, about people known personally to participants, or people provided to them for the exercise.
We'll also look at a broad selection of poems other writers have made as portraits - including work from Lucille Clifton, Plath, and Shakespeare's dark lady of the sonnets. We'll tackle the issue of the right to write as well; when questioning the ethics of who we right about, and why.
The Poem as Portrait
http://www.poetrycoop.com/poetry-workshops/poem-portrait
Online course dates:
Mon, 03 Nov 2014 to Sun, 30 Nov 2014
Workshop Leader Karen Hoy has a Diploma in Creative Writing from the University of Bristol in the south west of England. Her work has been published in many literary journals and print anthologies, including the portrait poem "Gauguin Girl" in My Mother Threw Knives (Second Light Publications).
She is married to the poet Alan Summers, and lives in Bradford-on-Avon in Wiltshire. Karen also works as a Development Producer for documentaries, and in her TV career has worked on productions for the BBC, National Geographic, and the Discovery Channels.
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