Election Week MASS MoCA Writing Through Art Poetry Retreat
Election Week MASS MoCA Writing Through Art Poetry Retreat
Join Jan Freeman, poet and educator, for the Election Week MASS MoCA Writing Through Art Poetry Retreat, a generative-writing experience for poets at the MASS MoCA Artist Residency Center in the heart of the Berkshires.
During our historic election week, in the supportive community of poets from near and far, we will create dozens of new drafts and poems. Together we will experience the many ways that painting, sculpture, and photography open inspiration, perception, memory, and new forms of creative expression. Culminating in a poetry reading at The Artist Book Foundation. Poets and writers of all levels of experience are welcome.
Morning workshops take place in the galleries of MASS MoCA, the Clark Art Institute, and the Williams College Museum of Art. A private studio, housing across from the museum, and a one-hour private conference to discuss your poems and writing goals are included.
Jan Freeman is the author of three books of poetry and the founder and former director of Paris Press (now an imprint of Wesleyan NeUniversity Press). She is the recipient of two MacDowell Fellowships, the Moulin a Nef Spiral Shell Fellowship, and an Associateship at the Five College Women’s Studies Research Center in Amherst, Massachusetts. Her poems have appeared in the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, the American Poetry Review, Barrow Street, The Brooklyn Rail, The Massachusetts Review, North American Review, Plume, POETRY, Prairie Schooner, Salamander, The Southern Review, and many other anthologies and literary journals. Since 2019, she has been teaching the MASS MoCA Writing Through Art Poetry Retreats and ekphrastic poetry workshops.