2023 Winter Workshop

Workshop 1: Poetry About Food with Eddie Vega

This poet is known for some really amazingly deep, meaningful food poems! Fun, too!

Workshop 2: Visual Poetry with Jay Ward

In this workshop, we explore using the page as a “stage,” where the words give their own performance in a way that accentuates the poem. Or perhaps not, maybe the poem is influenced by art/performance and becomes a lively cabaret in our reader’s imagination but visually looks like any other poem. We will explore examples of how the written word has influenced visual art and vice versa. Ekphrasis, concrete poems, list poems, ziuhitsu…we’ll touch on a little of everything as we build toward our writing prompt which is sure to generate new language and ideas.

Eddie Vega is a poet, spoken word artist, storyteller, and educator originally from the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas, currently residing in San Antonio. His…