Light and Line: A Photo–Poetry Workshop
This five-week course invites photographers and writers into a creative dialogue between image and word. Through the pairing of original photographs with original poetry, we will explore how seeing and language can inform and deepen one another. A photograph may reveal something a poem cannot, and a poem may give voice to what an image only suggests. Together, they open a richer field of expression.
Using a contemplative, Miksang-inspired approach to image-making, students will create photographs grounded in presence, clarity, and direct perception, while also exploring poetic forms that arise from those same moments of awareness. In-class prompts and out-of-class explorations will support both intuitive image-making and authentic poetic expression, allowing images and words to meet—sometimes in harmony, sometimes in tension—to create something new.
Open to beginners and experienced photographers and writers alike, this course welcomes any camera and any level of familiarity with poetry. What matters most is a willingness to look closely, listen deeply, and trust your own creative voice as it emerges across both mediums.
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