The Craft of Visual Poetry and Storytelling: A Workshop with Courtney Faye Taylor

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | As poets, we use written and spoken language to interpret the world. But what happens when we engage topics that require a different language entirely? How do we alter our manner of storytelling when words alone don’t suffice? In this workshop, we'll discuss visual poetics and storytelling as form and approach. The majority of the workshop will be reserved for discussing students' work. Each student should come with a visual poem/narrative to be workshopped and discussed.

About

Courtney Faye Taylor is the author of Concentrate (Graywolf Press, 2022); winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, the T.S. Eliot Four Quartets Prize from the Poetry Society of America, and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award; and a finalist for the NAACP Image Awards, the Lambda Literary Awards, the Society of Midland Authors Award, and the Heartland Booksellers Award. The collection has been featured in Publishers Weekly, Essence Magazine, and The Los Angeles Times and named among the “Best Poetry of the Last Year” by Ms. Magazine. Individual poems have appeared in Georgia Review, The Nation, The New Republic, Ploughshares, and Poetry. Her visual art has been exhibited at the Charlotte Street Foundation and The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art online. Winner of the 92Y Discovery Prize and an Academy of American Poets Prize, she lives in Atlanta.

Photo credit: Lucas Carpenter