12/08/2025
This Thursday marks our final free workshop of the year! Join Jeff Joseph Katz on 12/11 at 4:00pm ET for Exceeding Ekphrasis, an hourlong virtual workshop on working with visuals on the page. Register today at bluestoop.org/events
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How can visuals (from simple drawings to found photos) help creative writing argue a position, tell a story, or activate a poetic effect? In this free, hour-long session, we’ll analyze essays, poems, and hybrid works where images act as illustration, as counterpoint, as breath, as ghost. We'll study works by Lena Moses-Schmitt, Claudia Rankine, and other visually-engaged writers, then take to the page to test the possibilities of combining text and image. To prepare, please bring one picture cut out from a magazine, one piece of blank paper, and something to write with.
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Jeff Joseph Katz is a white q***r writer and artist based in Philadelphia. He works across mediums, mapping the secret passages between thinking and feeling. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Offing, The Seventh Wave, and v.1. He wrote and performed the drag performance-lecture Capability Pink Designs A Pleasure Garden With You, a study of landscape architecture, climate change, and gay B**M. He wants to be closer with you.
