Workshop Description: Across the centuries, poets have looked to other art forms for inspiration. In this workshop, participants will look at poems inspired by paintings and other visual arts, as well as music and film. What new doors open when you engage with another artist’s work? We’ll zoom in on the structures and strategies you can use and try out prompts that provide a path to new poems of your own.

Attendees will receive the Zoom link and packet of poems to be discussed two days before the event via email. This workshop is made possible by generous grants from Delaware Division of the arts and Delaware Humanities .

Poets' bios:

Jane Satterfield is the recipient of awards in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts, Bellingham Review, Ledbury Poetry Festival, Mslexia, and more. Her books of poetry are Her Familiars, Assignation at Vanishing Point, Shepherdess with an Automatic, and Apocalypse Mix, winner of the 2016 Autumn House Poetry Prize; she is also the author of Daughters of Empire: A Memoir of a Year in Britain and Beyond. With Laurie Kruk, she co-edited the multi-genre anthology Borderlands and Crossroads: Writing the Motherland (Demeter, 2016). Satterfield’s poetry, nonfiction, and lyric essays have appeared in American Poetry Review, Antioch Review, The Common, Crazyhorse, Diagram, Hotel Amerika, North American Review, Notre Dame Review, Pleiades; Verse Daily and Poetry Daily have featured her poems. The daughter of an American airman and a British mother, she grew up near Andrews Air Force Base in suburban Maryland. A Professor of Writing at Loyola University Maryland, she received her M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and is married to poet Ned Balbo. She lives in Baltimore.

Ned Balbo’s newest books are The Cylburn Touch-Me-Nots (New Criterion Poetry Prize) and 3 Nights of the Perseids (Richard Wilbur Award), both published in 2019. His previous books are Upcycling Paumanok , Lives of the Sleepers (Ernest Sandeen Prize), Galileo’s Banquet (Towson University Prize), and The Trials of Edgar Poe and Other Poems (Poets’ Prize and the Donald Justice Prize). Balbo is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts translation fellowship and three Individual Artist Awards from the Maryland Arts Council. He is also co-winner of the Willis Barnstone Translation Prize and recipient of the Robert Frost Foundation Poetry Award. Balbo's poems appear widely, most recently in Birmingham Poetry Review, Ecotone, Literary Matters, Literary Imagination, and Gingko Prize 2019 Ecopoetry Anthology. He taught most recently in Iowa State’s MFA program in creative writing and environment and at the West Chester University Poetry Conference. He lives in Baltimore with his wife, poet-essayist Jane Satterfield. (More at nedbalbo.com)