Writing Poems about Paintings 6-Week Online Workshop with Jack Christian, Starts Tuesday, April 7th, 2025

Begins Tuesday, April 7th, 2025 Any questions about this class? Use the Chat Button (lower left) to talk with us. Instructor Jack Christian is the author of the poetry collections Family System (2012 Colorado Prize, U Press Colorado) and Domestic Yoga (2016, Groundhog Poetry Press). He is working on a third collection of poems that respond to Impressionist and Post-Impressionist landscape paintings. His poetry, art criticism, and essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, ArtForum, Slate, Cleveland Review of Books, Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. Read an Interview with Jack about Writing Poems About Paintings.  Join us for a 6-week poetry workshop course focused on writing and sharing poems that respond to paintings and other works of art. As a poet, I've always been attracted to the interplay between the stillness of visual art and the linear movement of writing that must move through time in order to be read. Anyone who has ever attempted to describe