Session Description
After a tour of the “Touch Grass” exhibit at the Steffen Thomas Museum, we will spend the rest of the morning opening our five senses to poetry inspired by art in the gallery, the natural world, and daily life. Participants will learn about and practice ekphrasis a fancy term for writing poems about art. If weather permits, we will also spend some time outdoors. This workshop is open to anyone curious about working across genres, and who wants to bring a deeper sense of connection to art and nature into their work. Josina Guess is a creative collaborator in Vulture Sister Song which will be performed at Steffen Thomas on Sunday, February, 23 at 4 pm.
Josina Guess
Josina Guess is a writer, editor, and poet working at the intersections of ecology, race, history, and faith. She is an associate editor and regular writer for Sojourners magazine and has written for The Bitter Southerner, where she worked as editor from 2019-2021. Her writing is also in Atlanta Magazine, Ecotone, Fourth Genre, About Place Journal, Christian Century, and the anthologies Bigger Than Bravery: Black Resilience and Reclamation in a Time of Pandemic (Lookout Books, Fall 2022), Rally: Communal Prayers for Lovers of Jesus and Justice, Wisdom of Communities: Volume 4 – Sustainability in Community: Resources and Stories about Creating Eco-Resilience in Intentional Community, and Fight Evil With Poetry. She won the 2022 John Lewis Writing Grant in nonfiction from the Georgia Writers Association and earned an MFA in narrative nonfiction from the University of Georgia.
