Poetry + photography
Instructor: Andrew Zawacki | Tuition: $270 (Members) $318 (Non-Members) | Dates: Saturdays, June 6 - 27 | Time: 10 AM - 12 PM ET | Class Size Max: 6
Course Overview
Are you a photographer looking to expand your work by pairing your images with poetry? Are you a poet seeking to fold photography into your literary practice? Designed to elaborate (and disrupt) students’ primary artistic mode by adding in a complementary artform, this 4-week course has participants writing poems and making pictures in tandem. Each session introduces compelling projects that braid poetry and photography, followed by a workshop in which students share and discuss their experiments. Weekly readings and assignments will encourage inspiration and creative inquiry between classes.
This course is designed for novice to intermediate practitioners, ideally those who already practice photography or poetry writing. The sessions foster a supportive, exploratory environment meant to enrich each participant’s facility with generating and joining pictures and poems.
Images © Andrew Zawacki, Endscape
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Andrew Zawacki is the author of six poetry books: These Late Eclipses, Unsun : f/11, Videotape, Petals of Zero Petals of One, Anabranch, and By Reason of Breakings. His poetry-photobook Endscape, selected by Photoworks, is out from Jane & Jeremy. He was a participant in Penumbra’s 2024 Long Term Photobook Program and the 2023 Chico Review. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, The Nation, and other international journals, as well as the anthologies The Eloquent Poem, Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century, The Iowa Anthology of New American Poetries, and Great American Prose Poems. Additionally, Zawacki has published four books in France: Sonnetssonnants, translated by Anne Portugal; Georgia and Carnet Bartleby, translated by Sika Fakambi; and Par Raison de brisants, translated by Antoine Cazé and a finalist for the Prix Nelly Sachs. His translations of Sébastien Smirou, My Lorenzo and See About, earned a French Voices Grant, an NEA Translation Fellowship, and a fellowship from the Centre National du Livre. A fellow of the Slovenian Writers’ Association, he edited Afterwards: Slovenian Writing 1945-1995 and edited and co-translated Aleš Debeljak’s new and selected poems, Without Anesthesia. He also edited a number of Poetry Northwest dedicated to poetry and photography. A 2016 Howard Foundation Fellow in Poetry, Zawacki is Distinguished Research Professor of English at the University of Georgia.