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Writing Material: A Poetry Workshop

Thursday, April 10, 2025
5:30pm - 6:30pm
Homewood Museum

Writing Seminars Professor Dora Malech will help participants jumpstart their creative process with ekphrastic techniques at this poetry workshop inspired by material culture and the objects, art, and history of Homewood Museum. This workshop is offered in conjunction with History Through Poetry, an exhibit of student work created in Malech's fall 2024 First-Year Seminar: Bringing the Past to Life with Poetry.

Dora Malech is a professor in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University and editor in chief of The Hopkins Review. Her fifth book of poetry, Trying x Trying, is forthcoming from Carnegie Mellon University Press later this year, and her poems have appeared in numerous publications, including The New Yorker, Poetry, and Best American Poetry.
 

Tickets: $5-$7. Seating is limited. Advance online registration strongly encouraged.

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A National Historic Landmark, Homewood is one of the best-surviving examples of Federal-period Palladian architecture in the nation. Built circa 1801 for members of Maryland’s prominent Carroll family, the house also was home to at least 25 enslaved individuals, including William and Rebecca Ross and their two children and Izadod and Cis Conner and six of their 13 children. Homewood is best experienced via our award-winning guided tour, which winds through the house’s 11 elaborately furnished rooms and tells the intertwined narratives of the Carroll, Conner, and Ross families. Learn more

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