Over a span of three sessions, this workshop will focus on technique in ekphrastic poetry that can become the means for students to develop their own talents as writers. Before the first session, please email the names of any books, or individual poems, that you feel offer good examples of ekphrastic poetry to the instructor mgperrow@outlook.com. These will be compiled and emailed back to you for reference.

Mike Perrow grew up in rural southern Virginia, attended the College of William and Mary, then received a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His first collection of poems, Five Sequences for the Country at Night, was published by BlazeVox Press in 2018. His poems have also appeared in The Boston Review, Shenandoah Review, Volt, Harvard Review, The Southern Review, storySouth, Willow Springs Review, The William and Mary Review, and elsewhere. He is the winner of Boston Review's eighth annual poetry prize, judged by Mark Strand.