Name: Ekphrastic Poetry Reading with Dave Parsons, 2011 Texas Poet Laureate
Start: 2023-07-29T18:00:00-05:00
Location: Ardest Gallery

Ekphrastic Poetry Reading with Dave Parsons, 2011 Texas Poet Laureate

Ardest Gallery

Join us for an exphrastic poetry reading in response to art within Ardest Gallery, a fine arts gallery located in The Woodlands, Texas.

Dave Parsons will read and discuss the *ekphrasis process and his and other poets’ poems in response to the artwork that includes iconic paintings of contemporary artists and those of some of the masters such as Gustave Courbet, Auguste Renoir, and Van Gogh.
*Ekphrasis derives its meaning from the Greek words ek (out) and phrazein (tell). Ekphrasis denotes “telling in full.”
A longtime resident and arts advocate of the Montgomery County community, Parsons is the author of six books of poetry, co-editor of the anthology, Far Out: Poems of the 60s, and has a memoir forthcoming from TCU Press, Austin Relativity: Coming of Age in the 60s. He is an Adjunct Professor of English at Lone Star College and Co-director of the Montgomery County Literary Arts Council. He is the co-founder of the Greater Conroe Arts Alliance and was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters in 2009. He has four grown children and lives with his wife, award-winning artist Nancy Dazey Parsons

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