Back for the 2nd year!

For poets who want to engage with artistic practice and artists who want to explore poetic practice and others who want to experience it all.

In this workshop we’ll enter the worlds of image and word to look at how poets and artists shape their work using similar strategies. Taking inspiration words, colors, and shapes we’ll create poems and artworks using collage and paint.  From the cross-fertilization of poetry and art, we’ll make new discoveries.  The day will be about experimentation and surprise.

We ask you to bring an object to introduce yourself to the group.

Please bring a bag lunch; fruit, snacks, coffee and tea will be provided. We will meet from 9:30AM – 4PM Saturday June 10, 2023. Workshop limited to 8 participants. Please reserve your spot by June 3, 2023.

Ellen Goldsmith is a poet and teacher. Her books include Left Foot, Right Foot, Where to Look, Such Distances and No Pine Tree in This Forest Is Perfect. Her poems have been published in numerous journals including Dash, Evening Street Review, The Healing Muse, Intima, Off the Coast, Rhino, Steam Ticket, Third Wednesday and The Westchester Review as well as the anthologies Enough: Poems of Resistance and Protest and Wait.: Poems from the Pandemic. Professor Emeritus of the City University of New York, she lives in Cushing Maine.

Sandy Weisman is a visual artist and poet. Her poetry has been included in two anthologies and several other journals, including Salamander, Spillway, Barrow Street, The Maine Review, Off the Coast, and Muddy River Poetry Review. Sandy’s art work has been exhibited locally at the Michael Good Gallery in Rockport, Granite Gallery in Tenant’s Harbor, Waterfall Arts in Belfast, the Maine Jewish Art Museum in Portland, and other locations in the Boston area.