24PearlStreet Workshops and Events
HYBRID SPRINT on June 21st at 2pm-4pm EST.
24PearlStreet welcomes virtual students to participate in exciting, generative, hybrid workshops as they happen in real time at the Fine Arts Work Center. Virtual attendees, click the 24PearlStreet “Register for this Workshop” button to register as usual. Max virtual attendees is capped at 50.
Talking to the Walls: Writing Ekphrastic Poetry – with Jessica Jacobs
Together, we’ll explore different pathways into the deep conversations available to us with visual art and its creators. Ideal for writers and artists of all levels of experience, our time together will be primarily generative and designed to give you a new set of tools to carry away with you and keep you writing. Much of this class will draw on the instructor’s experience of researching and writing Pelvis with Distance, a biography-in-poems of Georgia O’Keeffe, which included an immersion in O’Keeffe’s art, writing, and biography, as well as a month alone in her beloved New Mexico high desert.
In-person Attendees
Writing and visual arts students enrolled in the in-person Summer Program at FAWC at the time of the hybrid workshop, as well as the general public, are welcome to attend in-person and need to CLICK HERE to reserve their spot in the Stanley Kunitz Common Room. Max in-person attendees is capped at 30.
Biography
Jessica Jacobs is the author of unalone, poems in conversation with the Book of Genesis (Four Way Books, March 2024); Take Me with You, Wherever You’re Going, one of Library Journal’s Best Poetry Books of the Year and winner of the Devil’s Kitchen and Goldie Awards; and Pelvis with Distance, winner of the New Mexico Book Award in Poetry and a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. Jacobs is the founder and executive director of Yetzirah: A Hearth for Jewish Poetry.
