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

In this workshop we’ll enter the worlds of imagery and words, look at how poets and artists shape their work. Taking inspiration from words, color, shapes, and objects in nature, we’ll create poems and collages.  From the cross-fertilization of poetry and art, we’ll make discoveries. The day will be about experimentation, discovery and surprise. We ask you to bring an object to introduce yourself to the group.

Please bring a bag lunch; coffee, tea, sparkling water and snacks included.

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  which won the 1997 Slapering Hol Press Chapbook Competition and was described as “an incandescent collection.”  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 poet and visual artist. 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.   She is a member of the Midcoast Maine Book Arts group.  Her artist books include Ontogeny, Book of Hours; she is currently working with Maine Media Workshops in Rockport, ME to produce Objects of My Desire, a letterpress book of poems, prints and images based on the concept of astonishment.