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Writing as Curation [Ben Lerner]

Time: 12:00am - 12:00am PT
Capacity: seat
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Member Price: $427.50
General Price: $475.00

We’ll discuss how describing and dramatizing encounters with works of visual art—real or imagined—can open up new possibilities for poetry and prose. In addition to considering student work, we’ll look at examples of ekphrastic writing from The Iliad to the fiction of Javier Marías.

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