BOULDER CLIFF NOTES WRITING CONFERENCE
2025 Cliff Notes Writing Conference
October 2-5, 2025
Readings are Free and Open to the Public at the Anasazi State Museum
Jon D Lee
photo by Jaq Chen
Peggy Shumaker
David Lee
photo by Nan Chalat-Noaker
Readings
Writing Instruction
Discussions
Homework Sharing
Dave’s 2025 Cliff Notes Homework
Ekphrasis (ecphrasis) - Representation of an artwork of any kind (music, dance, tapestry, painting, etc.) in a literary work (example was Keats’ Ode on a Grecian Urn.) as a literary device. Representation of a work of art, any kind, into a literary work. Place a poem inside a novel of a string quartet. Use something from another art form and let it become your dominant metaphor. Discernible reference to the art piece. You won’t understand the poem unless you see, hear or know the art.
Consider use of irony - lead in one way, meaning is the other.
Let the reference to the artwork become a controlling device in the piece. .
Ekphrasis and Irony
Each participant has 2-3 minutes to share.
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