More photos are taken in one day of human life than were taken in entire years before the invention of the smart phone. Part ekphrastic, part mnemonic exploration, this workshop will use what’s quite literally at hand to generate new poems from the wealth of images stored in our smart phones. We will delve into the limitations of what’s seen in a finite frame, in one moment in time, and devise ways to expand those limits, stretch time and space, creating or even shifting context and meaning from our broader, more experienced perspective here in the future. You will need your smart phone (or access to the photo storage you use in conjunction with your smart phone), though a baby book, wedding album, or family album will serve just as well. Join us as we sit down to tell the poems, to borrow a phrase from poet Naomi Shihab Nye, of the moments in our lives we capture and carry with us.
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MATT HOHNER has won or placed in numerous national and international poetry competitions, with publication credits in literary journals in seven countries on five continents. Hohner has held two residencies at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, with one forthcoming at Anam Cara Retreat in Ireland. His publications include Rattle: Poets Respond, Sky Island Journal, Takahē, The Storms Journal, New Contrast, Live Canon, The Cardiff Review, and Prairie Schooner. An editor with Loch Raven Review, Hohner’s first collection Thresholds and Other Poems (Apprentice House) was published in 2018.