After-Hours Writing Workshop with Ekphrastic and Visual Poet Glenn North

Emerald Coast Storytellers will be partnering with Escape To Create and the Seaside Institute, to welcome the distinguished Glenn North to the sandy white beaches of Santa Rosa Beach. Celebrated ekphrastic and visual poet, North’s work has been featured in art exhibitions at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, the American Jazz Museum, and the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art. To kick off our workshop, North will read a selection of his poetry, before leading guests through Writing to Repair: A Restorative Poetics Workshop.

At its essence, Restorative Poetics is about the healing properties of poetry on both a personal and community level. Poetry provides a unique opportunity for introspection that can be helpful in confronting personal trauma or the harm we see unfolding in our communities such as issues in the area of social justice, poverty, disparities in healthcare, gender inequality, and so on. Poetry is not a panacea but…