Center for Ethics and Writing and the Written Arts Program Presents

Doorways Into Ekphrasis

In this generative workshop, participants will discuss ekphrastic writing: writing about art. Together we will engage in close reading and close looking. Workshop attendees will leave with a draft of a poem and with prompts for further and future writing. No prior writing experience is needed. Please come prepared to write longhand.

This workshop will be broken into two sessions: from 10:15–11:30 am, and then from 12:00–1:00 pm. 

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Ama Codjoe is the author of Bluest Nude, winner of the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, and finalist for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Poetry, the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and the Paterson Poetry Prize. She is also the author of Blood of the Air, winner of the Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize. Among other honors, Codjoe has received fellowships from the Rona Jaffe Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bronx Council on the Arts, the New York State Council/New York Foundation of the Arts, and the Jerome Foundation. In 2023, Codjoe was appointed as the second Poet-in-Residence at the Guggenheim Museum. She is the winner of a 2023 Whiting Award and a recipient of a 2024 Arts and Letters Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Read more about Ama Codjoe's work here. 

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].

Time: 10:15 am – 1:00 pm EDT/GMT-4

Location: Campus Center, Weis Cinema

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