Ekphrasis in Action

Ekphrasis, according to its most basic definition, is simply poetry that addresses art; we'll be stretching that definition, making it into a way of interacting with art, of living with art, and even of looking at things in ways that make them into art. We'll be both reading texts in which others stretch the definition of ekphrasis and visiting sites on or quite near the Brown campus to engage in on-site exploration and writing. It’s a course about discovering and exploring the ways that we represent and therefore create and recreate the world.