MAD Arts
481 S Federal Hwy, Dania Beach, FL 33004
A Meta-Exphrastic Experience with Lit Encounters
Join South Florida poets Carolene Kurien and Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello as they lead a generative writing workshop inspired by the works in Lit Encounters.
Ekphrastic poetry refers to poetry that responds to visual art, either by depicting it, challenging it, or exploring its various facets further. But what does it look like to respond to a visual work of poetry? What happens when words and visuals are combined in the digital realm, ushering us into a new poetic age?
This poetry workshop will be the first of five that explore the senses and speak to how digitality can enhance physicality.
This will be a time for creation, reflection, and community.
Writing materials will be provided by MAD Arts.
To RSVP, send an email to art@yeswearemad.com with the subject line: Poetry Workshop.
theVERSEverse – a women-led collective of poets, artists, and creative technologists – commissions, curates, and sells digital poems, emphasizing craft and creating lasting value that can support artists financially. In this literary gallery, poem = work of art. Founded in November 2021 by Ana María Caballero, Kalen Iwamoto, and Sasha Stiles — with Elisabeth Sweet joining thereafter to support communications and community outreach — theVERSEverse is a collective of poets, writers, artists, editors, curators, and creative technologists working to unlock the literary potential of the blockchain.
Carolene Kurien is a Malayali-American poet from South Florida. Her work has garnered support and recognition from MacDowell, Tin House, The Miami Book Fair Emerging Writer Fellowship, Poetry Society UK, and Bellevue Literary Review. Her poems have been published or are forthcoming in Poetry London, RHINO, Sixth Finch, Barrelhouse, The Cincinnati Review, Southeast Review, and elsewhere. She currently serves as the Poetry Editor of Okay Donkey. You can learn more at carolenekurien.com.
Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello is the author of Hour of the Ox (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016), winner of the Donald Hall Prize for Poetry. She co-translated Yi Won’s The World’s Lightest Motorcycle (Zephyr Press, 2021), which won the 2022 Translation Grand Prize from the Literature Translation Institute of Korea. Cancio-Bello has received fellowships from the NEA, Knight Foundation, and American Literary Translators Association, and her work has appeared in Kenyon Review Online, The New York Times, and more. She is co-founder of the Adoptee Literary Festival and serves as a program manager for Miami Book Fair. Visit MarciCalabretta.com.
