What is visual poetry? Is there a right way to engage with it? Visual poetry combines graphic/visual and typographical elements to create poems that can simultaneously intrigue, confuse, and move us. They appear like diagrams, collages, documents, or computer glitches. But how do we venture beyond these immediate impressions, or what Douglas Kearney calls “legible noise,” to begin to appreciate visual poetry, even as it resists legibility? What story is the visual poet trying to tell us?

In this workshop we will spend the first two weeks reading/describing/sensing visual poetry, immersing ourselves in the sensory experience of each poem, and attuning to them as one might experience a sculpture or art installation. In the last two weeks we will play with our own visual poetry / text & image experiments and share them in an informal workshop setting.

This is a four-week long workshop starting on Saturday, March 28th from 2:00 PM–4:30 PM ET. This workshop is open to all writers of color.

Check out the class page for more information. To see all of our upcoming classes, visit kundiman.org/online-classes.