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Event Website
https://www.mythsoc.org/oms/oms-2024.htm
Start Date
2-17-2024 9:30 PM
End Date
2-17-2024 10:30 PM
Description
Although ekphrasis is most commonly posited as a poetic tool—poetry responding to visual art—the practice of ekphrasis at its heart is a merging of worlds in which an artist of any medium interprets a work in a different medium. Likewise, a Tarot reader interprets imagery and symbolism through the medium of speech, applying old archetypes and images to unique, new problems or questions. In this workshop, I will present on the medium of ekphrasis as a poetic form using W.H. Auden’s poetic interpretation of Bruegel’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, itself an iconic work of mythopoeic ekphrasis. Then, I will offer a quick primer on the Tarot, after which participants will draw their own Tarot cards—from their own decks at home or from a digitally shared Tarot deck—and perform their own ekphrastic free-writes, poetic or otherwise. The presentation will culminate with a demonstration of ekphrastic mythopoesis from my own body of work. Attendees are encouraged to be prepared both to write creatively/reflectively and to engage in discussion during the presentation about Auden’s work and the Tarot.
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Merging Worlds—Tarot as Ekphrasis for Creative and Reflective Writing
Although ekphrasis is most commonly posited as a poetic tool—poetry responding to visual art—the practice of ekphrasis at its heart is a merging of worlds in which an artist of any medium interprets a work in a different medium. Likewise, a Tarot reader interprets imagery and symbolism through the medium of speech, applying old archetypes and images to unique, new problems or questions. In this workshop, I will present on the medium of ekphrasis as a poetic form using W.H. Auden’s poetic interpretation of Bruegel’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, itself an iconic work of mythopoeic ekphrasis. Then, I will offer a quick primer on the Tarot, after which participants will draw their own Tarot cards—from their own decks at home or from a digitally shared Tarot deck—and perform their own ekphrastic free-writes, poetic or otherwise. The presentation will culminate with a demonstration of ekphrastic mythopoesis from my own body of work. Attendees are encouraged to be prepared both to write creatively/reflectively and to engage in discussion during the presentation about Auden’s work and the Tarot.
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