Ekprastic Poetry Workshop: Hull-House Exhibition Program

Janice Marie Zerfas, Ph. D. is a published poet and Poet in Residence at the Jane Adams Research Center in St. Joseph, Michigan. She is former writing teacher at Lake Michigan College where she was also English Department Chair, & voted Faculty of the Year, having taught 32 years. She also taught in medium security at Ionia Prison, and the first elder center in Lansing. She writes poetry and creative non-fiction published in many literary reviews, the South Dakota Review, the MacGuffin, Passager, and more, & recently including The Dunes Review, Presence: A Journal of Catholic Poetry, Poets on Poetry: Sunflowers Rising (to raise funds for Ukraine refugees), and forthcoming in The Bear River Review.

Janice’s ekphrastic poetry has been published and or presented in various venues: Rattle (Author’s Choice), “Facial Recognition,” also recorded by the author. A collage-poem, “Texas Heartbeat Vigilantism,” in both the Lowell Art Gallery and a chapbook, funded by Michigan Humanities. At the Poetry and Art Exhibit at Fountain Street Church, poems were read responding to art by local artists.

You may also like the following events from Krasl Art Center:

• This Thursday, 7th August, 12:00 pm, Coffee with the Curator in Saint Joseph
• Next Saturday, 16th August, 10:00 am, Summer Art Market on the Green in Saint Joseph
• This month, 30th August, 10:00 am, Summer Art Market on the Green in Saint Joseph

Also check out other Arts events in Saint Joseph, Literary Art events in Saint Joseph, Workshops in Saint Joseph.